Top 25
3-13
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 18.8%
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Coach Profile
Jack Elway
1979-1988 • San José State, Stanford
2 schools coached, anchored by Stanford.
Jack Elway's coaching record is 60-49-3, highlighted by seasons at Stanford from 1979 to 1988.
Jack Elway coached 10 seasons, won 54.9%, and posted an average SRS of 3.8. Best season: 1986 Stanford. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 60-49-3
- Career win rate
- 54.9%
- Average SRS
- 3.8
- 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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 67.8
Primary school anchor
Stanford
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 73.1.
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
- 60-49-3
- Stanford record
- 25-29-2
- Full-season record
- 60-49-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs California
- 3-1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
112 countable games, 54.9% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Stanford.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Big Game games in this dataset.
2 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 19, 1988. 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.
Jack Elway
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jack Elway: 1984 Stanford
1979Actual season year • SRS range -3.7 to 14.81988
Active comparison point
Jack Elway • 1986
1986 Stanford
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-4 • SRS 14.8 • SP Overall 17.3
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+18.2
SP Off / Def
31.2 / 15.3
Finish
Unranked
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
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results16
| 1988 Regular Week 12 | Stanford | UCLA | #6 | L17-27 |
| 1988 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #5 | L14-42 |
| 1988 Regular Week 3 | Stanford | USC | #6 | L20-24 |
| 1987 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | UCLA | #11 | L0-49 |
| 1987 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Washington | #12 | L21-31 |
| 1986 Regular Week 14 | Stanford | Arizona | #16 | W29-24 |
| 1986 Regular Week 11 | Stanford | UCLA | #19 | W28-23 |
| 1986 Regular Week 9 | Stanford | USC | #18 | L0-10 |
| 1986 Regular Week 7 | Stanford | Washington | #9 | L14-24 |
| 1986 Postseason Week 1 | Stanford | Clemson | #17 | L21-27 |
| 1984 Regular Week 11 | Stanford | USC | #14 | L11-20 |
| 1984 Regular Week 8 | Stanford | Washington | #1 | L15-37 |
| 1984 Regular Week 3 | Stanford | Oklahoma | #15 | L7-19 |
| 1981 Regular Week 9 | San José State | Arizona State | #10 | L24-31 |
| 1980 Regular Week 10 | San José State | Baylor | #16 | W30-22 |
| 1980 Regular Week 6 | San José State | Stanford | #16 | L21-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Stanford
1984-1988 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 5.3 • Win % 46.4%
San José State
1979-1983 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 2.4 • Win % 63.4%
- Longest tenure
- Stanford • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Stanford • 5.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- San José State • 63.4%
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.
Jack Elway sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJack Elway sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jack Elway
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 4.9
- Percentile
- 72th pct
Strong
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.
Stanford
1984-1988 • 25-29-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.3Win % 46.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 6.1 baseline
-0.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
7.8 during vs 5.1 baseline
+2.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
San José State
1979-1983 • 35-20-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.4Win % 63.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 7.0 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.4 during vs 1.2 baseline
+1.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 4.6 baseline
-2.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Stanford 1986
8-4 • SRS 14.8
Biggest Improvement
Stanford 1986
8-4 • 18.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
San José State 1981
9-3 • SP Off 36.7
Best Defensive Season
Stanford 1986
8-4 • SP Def 15.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
San José State 1983
5-6 • SRS -3.7
Biggest Drop
Stanford 1987
5-6 • -11.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Stanford | 1988 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 36.4% | — | — | 10.2 | 13.4 | 30.9 | 18.4 | +6.8 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1987 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 3.4 | 6.8 | 32.1 | 27.1 | -11.4 | -21.2% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1986 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 14.8 | 17.3 | 31.2 | 15.3 | +18.2 | +30.3% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1985 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -3.4 | -3.8 | 29.4 | 33.2 | -4.7 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1984 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.3 | 5.4 | 30.7 | 27.0 | +5.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| San José State | 1983 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -3.7 | -5.2 | 25.9 | 31.1 | -8.9 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| San José State | 1982 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 5.2 | 4.4 | 31.5 | 28.7 | -2.6 | -2.3% | Season summary |
| San José State | 1981 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.8 | 10.1 | 36.7 | 28.7 | +6.4 | +11.4% | Season summary |
| San José State | 1980 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 1.4 | 1.5 | 32.3 | 31.9 | +0.1 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| San José State | 1979 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 1.3 | -0.7 | 35.7 | 36.2 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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