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- Win rate
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Howard Odell
1942-1952 • Washington, Yale
2 schools coached, anchored by Yale.
Howard Odell's coaching record is 58-40-4, highlighted by seasons at Yale from 1942 to 1952.
Howard Odell coached 11 seasons, won 58.8%, and posted an average SRS of 3.0. Best season: 1946 Yale. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 58-40-4
- Career win rate
- 58.8%
- Average SRS
- 3.0
- Peak SRS
- 14.8
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
- 11
- Career span
- 11 years
- Best finish
- #11
- Consistency
- 34.6
Primary school anchor
Yale
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 73.1.
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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
- 58-40-4
- Yale record
- 35-15-2
- Full-season record
- 58-40-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-13
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-7
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
102 countable games, 58.8% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Yale.
11 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
13 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 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: Nov 29, 1952. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Howard Odell
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Howard Odell: 1948 Washington
1942Actual season year • SRS range -12.9 to 14.81952
Active comparison point
Howard Odell • 1946
1946 Yale
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-1-1 • SRS 14.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
83.3%
YoY SRS
+16.7
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#12
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
0-13
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results23
| 1952 Regular Week 10 | Washington | USC | #2 | L0-33 |
| 1952 Regular Week 4 | Washington | UCLA | #10 | L7-32 |
| 1951 Regular Week 10 | Washington | UCLA | #15 | T20-20 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | Washington | California | #19 | L28-37 |
| 1951 Regular Week 7 | Washington | Stanford | #7 | L7-14 |
| 1951 Regular Week 6 | Washington | Illinois | #3 | L20-27 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Washington | USC | #11 | L13-20 |
| 1950 Regular Week 8 | Washington | California | #4 | L7-14 |
| 1950 Regular Week 6 | Washington | Illinois | #10 | L13-20 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | Washington | USC | #17 | L28-40 |
| 1949 Regular Week 7 | Washington | California | #3 | L7-21 |
| 1949 Regular Week 6 | Washington | Stanford | #17 | L0-40 |
| 1949 Regular Week 4 | Washington | Notre Dame | #1 | L7-27 |
| 1949 Regular Week 3 | Washington | Minnesota | #3 | L20-48 |
| 1948 Regular Week 7 | Washington | California | #4 | L0-21 |
| 1948 Regular Week 3 | Washington | Minnesota | #13 | L0-20 |
| 1947 Regular Week 6 | Yale | Wisconsin | #9 | L0-9 |
| 1947 Regular Week 5 | Yale | Columbia | #17 | W17-7 |
| 1945 Regular Week 5 | Yale | Holy Cross | #13 | L0-21 |
| 1943 Regular Week 8 | Yale | Dartmouth | #13 | L6-20 |
| 1943 Regular Week 7 | Yale | Army | #7 | L7-39 |
| 1943 Regular Week 4 | Yale | Pennsylvania | #6 | L7-41 |
| 1942 Regular Week 5 | Yale | Pennsylvania | #17 | L6-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Washington
1948-1952 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 6.0 • Win % 48.0%
Yale
1942-1947 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 0.5 • Win % 69.2%
- Longest tenure
- Yale • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Washington • 6.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Yale • 69.2%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Howard Odell
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Washington
1948-1952 • 23-25-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 6.0Win % 48.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 4.8 baseline
-0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 0.9 baseline
+5.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
Yale
1942-1947 • 35-15-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 0.5Win % 69.2%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Yale 1946
7-1-1 • SRS 14.8
Biggest Improvement
Yale 1946
7-1-1 • 16.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Yale 1943
4-5 • SRS -12.9
Biggest Drop
Yale 1947
6-3 • -15.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Washington | 1952 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 11.2 | — | — | — | +6.1 | +35.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 1951 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | #8 | — | 5.1 | — | — | — | -8.6 | -45.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 1950 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #11 | 13.7 | — | — | — | +10.4 | +50.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 1949 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | +6.4 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 1948 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 25.0% | — | — | -3.1 | — | — | — | -2.4 | -41.7% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1947 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -0.7 | — | — | — | -15.5 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1946 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | #12 | 14.8 | — | — | — | +16.7 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1945 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -1.9 | — | — | — | -4.3 | -27.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1944 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 93.8% | — | — | 2.4 | — | — | — | +15.3 | +49.3% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1943 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -12.9 | — | — | — | -13.9 | -18.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1942 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 1.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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