Top 25
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
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Chad Lunsford
2017-2024 • Florida Atlantic, Georgia Southern
2 schools coached, anchored by Georgia Southern.
Chad Lunsford's coaching record is 29-22, highlighted by seasons at Georgia Southern from 2017 to 2024.
Chad Lunsford coached 6 seasons, won 56.9%, and posted an average SRS of -8.0. Best season: 2020 Georgia Southern. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 29-22
- Career win rate
- 56.9%
- Average SRS
- -8.0
- Peak SRS
- 1.2
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
- 8 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 31.0
Primary school anchor
Georgia Southern
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 37.6.
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
- 29-22
- Georgia Southern record
- 28-21
- Full-season record
- 25-14
- Partial-season record
- 4-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs App State
- 2-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
51 countable games, 56.9% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Georgia Southern.
3 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.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deeper than Hate games in this dataset.
3 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 30, 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.
Chad Lunsford
EliteStrongAverageLean
Chad Lunsford: 2024 Florida Atlantic
2017Actual season year • SRS range -17.4 to 1.22024
Active comparison point
Chad Lunsford • 2020
2020 Georgia Southern
Best season8-5 • SRS 1.2 • SP Overall 0.2
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+2.2
SP Off / Def
27.4 / 27.1
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Florida Atlantic
2024-2024 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -15.4 • Win % 50.0%
Georgia Southern
2017-2021 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -6.5 • Win % 57.1%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia Southern • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia Southern • -6.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia Southern • 57.1%
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.
Chad Lunsford sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChad Lunsford sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chad Lunsford
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -8.4
- Percentile
- 32th pct
Lower end
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.
Florida Atlantic
2024-2024 • 1-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -15.4Win % 50.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Georgia Southern
2017-2021 • 28-21
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (3 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.5Win % 57.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.3 during vs 7.7 baseline
+0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.1 during vs -1.3 baseline
+1.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.2 during vs 0.3 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
Georgia Southern 2020
8-5 • SRS 1.2
Biggest Improvement
Georgia Southern 2018
10-3 • 17.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Georgia Southern 2018
10-3 • SP Off 27.9
Best Defensive Season
Georgia Southern 2020
8-5 • SP Def 27.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Georgia Southern 2017
2-4 • SRS -17.4
Biggest Drop
Georgia Southern 2021
1-3 • -16.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida Atlantic | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -15.4 | -12.7 | 20.8 | 32.1 | -0.5 | +25.0% | Partial season |
| Georgia Southern | 2021 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -14.9 | -15.3 | 18.4 | 34.0 | -16.1 | -36.5% | Partial season |
| Georgia Southern | 2020 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 1.2 | 0.2 | 27.4 | 27.1 | +2.2 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Georgia Southern | 2019 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -1.0 | -4.5 | 22.2 | 27.4 | -0.6 | -23.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia Southern | 2018 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | -0.4 | -2.4 | 27.9 | 31.6 | +17.0 | +43.6% | Season summary |
| Georgia Southern | 2017 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -17.4 | -15.8 | 18.3 | 35.5 | — | — | Partial season |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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