Top 25
4-17
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 19.1%
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Sylvester Croom
2004-2008 • Mississippi State
One defining program at Mississippi State.
Sylvester Croom's coaching record is 21-38, highlighted by seasons at Mississippi State from 2004 to 2008.
Sylvester Croom coached 5 seasons, won 35.6%, and posted an average SRS of -4.8. Best season: 2007 Mississippi State. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 21-38
- Career win rate
- 35.6%
- Average SRS
- -4.8
- Peak SRS
- 4.7
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
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 72.9
Primary school anchor
Mississippi State
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 46.2.
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
- 21-38
- Mississippi State record
- 21-38
- Full-season record
- 21-38
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-11
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-7
- Vs Ole Miss
- 2-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
59 countable games, 35.6% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Mississippi State.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Egg Bowl games in this dataset.
1 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 28, 2008. 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.
Sylvester Croom
EliteStrongAverageLean
2004Actual season year • SRS range -10.4 to 4.72008
Active comparison point
Sylvester Croom • 2007
2007 Mississippi State
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-5 • SRS 4.7 • SP Overall 2.0
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+9.1
SP Off / Def
20.2 / 17.8
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
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results21
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Mississippi State
2004-2008 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -4.8 • Win % 35.6%
- Longest tenure
- Mississippi State • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Mississippi State • -4.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Mississippi State • 35.6%
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.
Sylvester Croom sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeSylvester Croom sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sylvester Croom
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -5.2
- Percentile
- 41th 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.
Mississippi State
2004-2008 • 21-38
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.8Win % 35.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.2 during vs 5.2 baseline
-1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.8 during vs -0.3 baseline
-4.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.2 during vs 1.5 baseline
-6.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Mississippi State 2007
8-5 • SRS 4.7
Biggest Improvement
Mississippi State 2007
8-5 • 9.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Mississippi State 2004
3-8 • SP Off 23.8
Best Defensive Season
Mississippi State 2007
8-5 • SP Def 17.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Mississippi State 2005
3-8 • SRS -10.4
Biggest Drop
Mississippi State 2008
4-8 • -12.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Mississippi State | 2008 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -8.0 | -8.8 | 16.5 | 22.5 | -12.7 | -28.2% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 2007 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 4.7 | 2.0 | 20.2 | 17.8 | +9.1 | +36.5% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 2006 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -4.4 | -6.7 | 16.5 | 21.7 | +6.0 | -2.3% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 2005 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -10.4 | -7.0 | 16.7 | 23.7 | -4.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 2004 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -5.8 | -5.7 | 23.8 | 29.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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