Coach Profile
College football coaching record, Utah State years & career stats
1949-1950 • Utah State
One defining program at Utah State.
George Melinkovich's coaching record is 5-16, highlighted by seasons at Utah State from 1949 to 1950.
George Melinkovich coached 2 seasons, won 23.8%, and posted an average SRS of -29.3. Best season: 1949 Utah State. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
21 countable games, 23.8% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Utah State.
2 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle of the Brothers games in this dataset.
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.
Career Résumé
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
0% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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 23, 1950. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
George Melinkovich is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Utah State, with a 5-16 career record from 1949-1950 across 2 countable seasons.
George Melinkovich's college football coaching record is 5-16 across 2 countable seasons, anchored by Utah State.
George Melinkovich coached at Utah State in the seasons covered by this profile.
George Melinkovich had 0 winning seasons across 2 countable season rows in this profile.
George Melinkovich had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
George Melinkovich recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
George Melinkovich's Utah State head coach years were 1949-1950, covering 2 countable seasons with a 5-16 record.
George Melinkovich's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Active comparison point
3-7 • SRS -27.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
30.0%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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.
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Read 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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
George Melinkovich
Insufficient sample
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Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1949-1950 • 5-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.5 during vs 5.0 baseline
-2.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-29.3 during vs -15.6 baseline
-13.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Utah State 1949
3-7 • SRS -27.3
Biggest Improvement
Utah State 1950
2-9 • -4.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Utah State 1950
2-9 • SRS -31.3
Biggest Drop
Utah State 1950
2-9 • -4.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| Utah StateLowest | 1950 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -31.3 | — | — | — | -4.0 | -11.8% | Season summary |
| Utah StateBest | 1949 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -27.3 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS -29.2 • Peak SRS -28.2 • 2 seasons
Best finish #0 • Volatility 1.0
Open profile →same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.8
Avg SRS -28.5 • Peak SRS -25.3 • 2 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.2
Open profile →same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.4
Avg SRS -28.9 • Peak SRS -28.9 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →same balanced identity • volatility within 0.5
Avg SRS -26.9 • Peak SRS -24.3 • 2 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 2.5
Open profile →same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.6
Avg SRS -29.9 • Peak SRS -29.9 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.9
Avg SRS -30.2 • Peak SRS -30.2 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
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