Top 25
5-13-1
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 28.9%
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Coach Profile
Ray Perkins
1983-1992 • Alabama, Arkansas State
2 schools coached, anchored by Alabama.
Ray Perkins coached 5 seasons, won 58.5%, and posted an average SRS of 8.0. Best season: 1986 Alabama. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 34-24-1
- Career win rate
- 58.5%
- Average SRS
- 8.0
- Peak SRS
- 20.8
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
- 5
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #0
- Consistency
- 0.6
Primary school anchor
Alabama
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 86.1.
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.
Ray Perkins
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Ray Perkins: 1992 Arkansas State
1983Actual season year • SRS range -26.7 to 20.81992
Active comparison point
Ray Perkins • 1986
1986 Alabama
Best season10-3 • SRS 20.8 • SP Overall 26.4
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+1.6
SP Off / Def
36.1 / 10.8
Finish
#9
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
1-6
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 14.3%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results19
| 1992 Regular Week 9 | Arkansas State | Mississippi State | #25 | L6-56 |
| 1992 Regular Week 3 | Arkansas State | Oklahoma | #13 | L0-61 |
| 1986 Regular Week 14 | Alabama | Auburn | #10 | L17-21 |
| 1986 Regular Week 11 | Alabama | LSU | #12 | L10-14 |
| 1986 Regular Week 9 | Alabama | Penn State | #2 | L3-23 |
| 1986 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | Washington | #18 | W28-6 |
| 1985 Regular Week 14 | Alabama | Auburn | #7 | W25-23 |
| 1985 Regular Week 11 | Alabama | LSU | #15 | T14-14 |
| 1985 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Tennessee | #20 | L14-16 |
| 1985 Regular Week 7 | Alabama | Penn State | #8 | L17-19 |
| 1984 Regular Week 15 | Alabama | Auburn | #16 | W17-15 |
| 1984 Regular Week 12 | Alabama | LSU | #9 | L14-16 |
| 1984 Regular Week 8 | Alabama | Penn State | #19 | W6-0 |
| 1984 Regular Week 7 | Alabama | Georgia | #15 | L14-24 |
| 1984 Regular Week 6 | Alabama | Vanderbilt | #19 | L21-30 |
| 1984 Regular Week 3 | Alabama | Boston College | #10 | L31-38 |
| 1983 Regular Week 15 | Alabama | Auburn | #3 | L20-23 |
| 1983 Regular Week 14 | Alabama | Boston College | #13 | L13-20 |
| 1983 Postseason Week 1 | Alabama | SMU | #12 | W28-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arkansas State
1992-1992 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -26.7 • Win % 18.2%
Alabama
1983-1986 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 16.6 • Win % 67.7%
- Longest tenure
- Alabama • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Alabama • 16.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Alabama • 67.7%
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.
Ray Perkins sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRay Perkins sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ray Perkins
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- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.1
- Percentile
- 87th 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.
Arkansas State
1992-1992 • 2-9
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -26.7Win % 18.2%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Alabama
1983-1986 • 32-15-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.6Win % 67.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 10.0 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
16.6 during vs 23.2 baseline
-6.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
20.7 during vs 26.1 baseline
-5.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Alabama 1986
10-3 • SRS 20.8
Biggest Improvement
Alabama 1985
9-2-1 • 11.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Alabama 1983
8-4 • SP Off 40.0
Best Defensive Season
Alabama 1986
10-3 • SP Def 10.8
Setbacks
Worst Season
Arkansas State 1992
2-9 • SRS -26.7
Biggest Drop
Arkansas State 1992
2-9 • -47.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arkansas State | 1992 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -26.7 | -27.6 | 13.3 | 38.2 | -47.5 | -58.7% |
| Alabama | 1986 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #5 | #9 | 20.8 | 26.4 | 36.1 | 10.8 | +1.6 | -2.2% |
| Alabama | 1985 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | #0 | #13 | 19.2 | 25.2 | 36.8 | 12.3 | +11.2 | +33.7% |
| Alabama | 1984 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | #9 | #0 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 28.0 | 19.5 | -10.6 | -21.2% |
| Alabama | 1983 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #13 | #15 | 18.6 | 22.1 | 40.0 | 19.6 | — | — |
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