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Barry Alvarez

1990-2014 • Wisconsin

One defining program at Wisconsin.

Barry Alvarez's coaching record is 118-75-4, highlighted by seasons at Wisconsin from 1990 to 2014.

Barry Alvarez coached 18 seasons, won 60.9%, and posted an average SRS of 8.8. Best season: 1999 Wisconsin. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
118-75-4
Career win rate
60.9%
Average SRS
8.8
Peak SRS
21.7

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
18
Career span
25 years
Best finish
#4
Consistency
30.7

Primary school anchor

Wisconsin

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 87.8.

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.

Compare Barry Alvarez
Overall record
118-75-4

197 countable games, 60.9% win rate.

Wisconsin record
117-74-4

16 countable seasons at Wisconsin.

Full-season record
117-74-4

16 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Partial-season record
1-1

Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.

Vs AP Top 25
23-36-1

60 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
5-18-1

24 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
2-9-1

12 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Minnesota
11-5

Minnesota-Wisconsin games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
8-3

11 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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, 2015. 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.

Barry Alvarez
EliteStrongAverageLean
1990Actual season year • SRS range -8.8 to 21.72014

Active comparison point

Barry Alvarez • 1999

Selected

1999 Wisconsin

Best season

10-2 • SRS 21.7 • SP Overall 23.0

Win %

83.3%

YoY SRS

+1.9

SP Off / Def

38.5 / 16.9

Finish

#4

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

23-36-1

Games
60
Win rate
39.2%

Top 10

5-18-1

Games
24
Win rate
22.9%

Top 5

2-9-1

Games
12
Win rate
20.8%
View ranked game results60
2005 Regular Week 10WisconsinPenn State#10L14-35
2005 Regular Week 7WisconsinMinnesota#22W38-34
2005 Regular Week 4WisconsinMichigan#14W23-20
2005 Postseason Week 1WisconsinAuburn#14W24-10
2004 Regular Week 13WisconsinIowa#17L7-30
2004 Regular Week 8WisconsinPurdue#5W20-17
2004 Regular Week 7WisconsinOhio State#18W24-13
2004 Postseason Week 1WisconsinGeorgia#7L21-24
2003 Regular Week 14WisconsinIowa#17L21-27
2003 Regular Week 13WisconsinMichigan State#21W56-21
2003 Regular Week 12WisconsinMinnesota#24L34-37
2003 Regular Week 9WisconsinPurdue#13L23-26
2003 Regular Week 8WisconsinOhio State#3W17-10
2002 Regular Week 13WisconsinMichigan#12L14-21
2002 Regular Week 11WisconsinIowa#9L3-20
2002 Regular Week 9WisconsinOhio State#4L14-19
2002 Regular Week 7WisconsinPenn State#20L31-34
2002 Postseason Week 1WisconsinColorado#14W31-28
2001 Regular Week 13WisconsinMichigan#11L17-20
2001 Regular Week 8WisconsinOhio State#21W20-17
2001 Regular Week 3WisconsinFresno State#19L20-32
2001 Regular Week 2WisconsinOregon#7L28-31
2000 Regular Week 9WisconsinPurdue#17L24-30
2000 Regular Week 7WisconsinOhio State#8L7-23
2000 Regular Week 6WisconsinMichigan#9L10-13
1999 Regular Week 11WisconsinPurdue#17W28-21
1999 Regular Week 9WisconsinMichigan State#11W40-10
1999 Regular Week 7WisconsinMinnesota#25W20-17
1999 Regular Week 6WisconsinOhio State#12W42-17
1999 Regular Week 5WisconsinMichigan#4L16-21
1998 Regular Week 13WisconsinPenn State#23W24-3
1998 Regular Week 12WisconsinMichigan#11L10-27
1998 Postseason Week 1WisconsinUCLA#8W38-31
1997 Regular Week 14WisconsinPenn State#6L10-35
1997 Regular Week 13WisconsinMichigan#1L16-26
1997 Regular Week 12WisconsinIowa#12W13-10
1997 Postseason Week 1WisconsinGeorgia#10L6-33
1996 Regular Week 9WisconsinNorthwestern#14L30-34
1996 Regular Week 8WisconsinOhio State#2L14-17
1996 Regular Week 6WisconsinPenn State#3L20-23
1995 Regular Week 9WisconsinNorthwestern#11L0-35
1995 Regular Week 8WisconsinOhio State#4L16-27
1995 Regular Week 6WisconsinPenn State#6W17-9
1995 Regular Week 2WisconsinColorado#14L7-43
1994 Regular Week 10WisconsinMichigan#10W31-19
1994 Regular Week 5WisconsinIndiana#25W62-13
1994 Regular Week 4WisconsinColorado#7L17-55
1993 Regular Week 15WisconsinMichigan State#25W41-20
1993 Regular Week 11WisconsinOhio State#3T14-14
1993 Regular Week 10WisconsinMichigan#24W13-10
1993 Postseason Week 1WisconsinUCLA#18W21-16
1992 Regular Week 6WisconsinOhio State#12W20-16
1992 Regular Week 3WisconsinWashington#2L10-27
1991 Regular Week 7WisconsinIowa#17L6-10
1991 Regular Week 6WisconsinOhio State#14L16-31
1990 Regular Week 14WisconsinMichigan State#23L9-14
1990 Regular Week 13WisconsinOhio State#19L10-35
1990 Regular Week 10WisconsinIllinois#5L3-21
1990 Regular Week 8WisconsinIowa#22L10-30
1990 Regular Week 7WisconsinMichigan#1L3-41

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Wisconsin

2014-2014 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS 15.3 • Win % 100.0%

Wisconsin

2012-2012 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS 12.1 • Win % 0.0%

Wisconsin

1990-2005 • 16 seasons

Avg SRS 8.2 • Win % 61.0%

Longest tenure
Wisconsin • 16 seasons
Best tenure
Wisconsin • 15.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Wisconsin • 100.0%

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.

Barry Alvarez sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Barry Alvarez sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Barry Alvarez

Elite

Raw avg SP Overall
10.4
Percentile
86th 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.

Wisconsin

2014-2014 • 1-0

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 15.3Win % 100.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Wisconsin

2012-2012 • 0-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 12.1Win % 0.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Wisconsin

1990-2005 • 117-74-4

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 8.2Win % 61.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.3 during vs 2.8 baseline

+4.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

8.2 during vs -8.2 baseline

+16.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

9.5 during vs -8.7 baseline

+18.2

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

37.5% during vs 0.0% baseline

+37.5%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Wisconsin 1999

10-2 • SRS 21.7

Biggest Improvement

Wisconsin 1998

11-1 • 20.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Wisconsin 2014

1-0 • SP Off 38.7

Best Defensive Season

Wisconsin 1998

11-1 • SP Def 15.3

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Wisconsin 1990

1-10 • SRS -8.8

Biggest Drop

Wisconsin 2000

9-4 • -11.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Wisconsin20141100100.0%#14#1315.320.838.718.1+3.2+100.0%Partial season
Wisconsin201210100.0%#12—12.114.531.515.9-1.1-76.9%Partial season
Wisconsin200513103076.9%—#1513.211.135.324.2+5.2+1.9%Season summary
Wisconsin20041293075.0%#21#178.010.526.216.90.0+21.1%Season summary
Wisconsin20031376053.8%#21—8.011.235.726.6+0.5-3.3%Season summary
Wisconsin20021486057.1%#25—7.512.835.724.7+4.1+15.5%Season summary
Wisconsin20011257041.7%#22—3.48.138.532.1-6.6-27.6%Season summary
Wisconsin20001394069.2%#4#2310.014.734.220.6-11.7-14.1%Season summary
Wisconsin199912102083.3%#10#421.723.038.516.9+1.9-8.3%Season summary
Wisconsin199812111091.7%#20#619.822.536.715.3+20.0+30.1%Season summary
Wisconsin19971385061.5%#24—-0.2-0.328.028.3-10.60.0%Season summary
Wisconsin19961385061.5%——10.411.834.224.0+1.6+16.1%Season summary
Wisconsin19951145245.5%#21—8.89.830.922.8-5.5-17.1%Season summary
Wisconsin19941274162.5%#10—14.316.337.623.0-3.6-25.0%Season summary
Wisconsin199312101187.5%—#617.920.537.217.8+15.3+42.0%Season summary
Wisconsin19921156045.5%——2.63.523.720.9+8.40.0%Season summary
Wisconsin19911156045.5%——-5.8-11.813.424.3+3.0+36.4%Season summary
Wisconsin19901111009.1%——-8.8-11.817.328.2——Season summary

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