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Tim Skipper

2024-2024Fresno State

One defining program at Fresno State.

Tim Skipper coached 1 seasons, won 46.2%, and posted an average SRS of -6.0. Best season: 2024 Fresno State. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
6-7
Career win rate
46.2%
Average SRS
-6.0
Peak SRS
-6.0

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
1
Career span
1 years
Best finish
Consistency

Primary school anchor

Fresno State

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 22.0.

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 Tim Skipper
Overall record
6-7

13 countable games, 46.2% win rate.

Fresno State record
6-7

1 countable seasons at Fresno State.

Full-season record
6-7

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

Vs AP Top 25
0-1

1 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-1

1 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs San José State
1-0

Battle for the Valley games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-1

1 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: Dec 23, 2024. 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.

Tim Skipper
EliteStrongAverageLean
2023Actual season year • SRS range -7.0 to -5.02025

Active comparison point

Tim Skipper2024

Selected

2024 Fresno State

Best seasonWorst season

6-7 • SRS -6.0 • SP Overall -3.8

Win %

46.2%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

25.1 / 27.6

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results1
2024 Regular Week 1Fresno StateMichigan#9L10-30

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Fresno State

2024-20241 seasons

Avg SRS -6.0 • Win % 46.2%

Longest tenure
Fresno State • 1 seasons
Best tenure
Fresno State • -6.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Fresno State • 46.2%

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.

Tim Skipper sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Tim Skipper sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Tim Skipper

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall
-3.8
Percentile
45th pct

Mixed

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.

Fresno State

2024-20246-7

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

Avg SRS -6.0Win % 46.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.0 during vs 6.2 baseline

-0.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-6.0 during vs -1.4 baseline

-4.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-3.8 during vs 1.4 baseline

-5.2

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Fresno State 2024

6-7SRS -6.0

Biggest Improvement

Unavailable

Best Offensive Season

Fresno State 2024

6-7SP Off 25.1

Best Defensive Season

Fresno State 2024

6-7SP Def 27.6

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Fresno State 2024

6-7SRS -6.0

Biggest Drop

Unavailable

Season-by-season results

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

Fresno State20241367046.2%-6.0-3.825.127.6Season summary

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