Top 25
18-5
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 78.3%
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Kalen DeBoer
2020-2025 • Alabama, Fresno State, Washington
3 schools coached, anchored by Alabama.
Kalen DeBoer's coaching record is 57-17, highlighted by seasons at Alabama from 2020 to 2025.
Kalen DeBoer coached 6 seasons, won 77.0%, and posted an average SRS of 9.6. Best season: 2024 Alabama. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 57-17
- Career win rate
- 77.0%
- Average SRS
- 9.6
- Peak SRS
- 18.1
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 27.3
Primary school anchor
Alabama
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 80.6.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 57-17
- Alabama record
- 20-8
- Full-season record
- 37-10
- Partial-season record
- 9-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 7-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 4-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-3
- CFP record
- 2-2
- National titles
- 0
74 countable games, 77.0% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Alabama.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
10 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 scored postseason games in this dataset.
4 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Jan 1, 2026. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Kalen DeBoer
EliteStrongAverageLean
Kalen DeBoer: 2022 WashingtonKalen DeBoer: 2024 Alabama
2020Actual season year • SRS range -6.7 to 18.12025
Active comparison point
Kalen DeBoer • 2024
2024 Alabama
Best seasonNew stop: Alabama9-4 • SRS 18.1 • SP Overall 25.0
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+1.6
SP Off / Def
37.9 / 14.6
Finish
#17
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
7-3
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 70.0%
Top 5
4-3
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 57.1%
View ranked game results23
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Alabama
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 15.4 • Win % 71.4%
Washington
2022-2023 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 14.3 • Win % 89.3%
Fresno State
2020-2021 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -0.8 • Win % 66.7%
- Longest tenure
- Alabama • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Alabama • 15.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Washington • 89.3%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Kalen DeBoer sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeKalen DeBoer sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Kalen DeBoer
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 12.9
- Percentile
- 91th pct
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Alabama
2024-2025 • 20-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 15.4Win % 71.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.0 during vs 12.0 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
15.4 during vs 24.1 baseline
-8.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
19.9 during vs 28.0 baseline
-8.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-50.0%
Washington
2022-2023 • 25-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.3Win % 89.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
12.5 during vs 6.6 baseline
+5.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.3 during vs 12.6 baseline
+1.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
16.1 during vs 14.9 baseline
+1.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+80.0%
Fresno State
2020-2021 • 12-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.8Win % 66.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 5.9 baseline
-2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.7 during vs -5.4 baseline
-1.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.5 during vs -3.8 baseline
-1.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Alabama 2024
9-4 • SRS 18.1
Biggest Improvement
Fresno State 2021
9-3 • 11.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Washington 2022
11-2 • SP Off 41.2
Best Defensive Season
Alabama 2024
9-4 • SP Def 14.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Fresno State 2020
3-3 • SRS -6.7
Biggest Drop
Alabama 2025
11-4 • -5.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Alabama | 2025 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 73.3% | — | — | 12.7 | 14.8 | 32.2 | 16.1 | -5.4 | +4.1% | Completed-game fallback |
| Alabama | 2024 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #5 | #17 | 18.1 | 25.0 | 37.9 | 14.6 | +1.6 | -24.1% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2023 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #10 | #2 | 16.5 | 16.4 | 40.3 | 24.7 | +4.5 | +8.7% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2022 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #8 | 12.0 | 15.7 | 41.2 | 25.5 | +6.8 | +9.6% | Season summary |
| Fresno State | 2021 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 5.2 | 10.8 | 34.7 | 24.2 | +11.9 | +25.0% | Partial season |
| Fresno State | 2020 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -6.7 | -5.5 | 29.3 | 34.8 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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