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1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
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Slick Morton
1947-1951 • Mississippi State, VMI
2 schools coached, anchored by Mississippi State.
Slick Morton's coaching record is 17-26-2, highlighted by seasons at Mississippi State from 1947 to 1951.
Slick Morton coached 5 seasons, won 40.0%, and posted an average SRS of -0.6. Best season: 1950 Mississippi State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 17-26-2
- Career win rate
- 40.0%
- Average SRS
- -0.6
- Peak SRS
- 6.5
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
- 61.7
Primary school anchor
Mississippi State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 52.4.
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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
- 17-26-2
- Mississippi State record
- 8-18-1
- Full-season record
- 17-26-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-5
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Ole Miss
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
45 countable games, 40.0% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Mississippi State.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Egg Bowl 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.
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 1, 1951. 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.
Slick Morton
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Slick Morton: 1949 Mississippi State
1947Actual season year • SRS range -9.6 to 6.51951
Active comparison point
Slick Morton • 1950
1950 Mississippi State
Best seasonBiggest improvement4-5 • SRS 6.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
44.4%
YoY SRS
+16.1
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results9
| 1951 Regular Week 5 | Mississippi State | Kentucky | #17 | L0-27 |
| 1951 Regular Week 3 | Mississippi State | Tennessee | #3 | L0-14 |
| 1950 Regular Week 9 | Mississippi State | Kentucky | #3 | L21-48 |
| 1950 Regular Week 3 | Mississippi State | Tennessee | #14 | W7-0 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | Mississippi State | Tulane | #10 | L6-54 |
| 1949 Regular Week 4 | Mississippi State | Baylor | #10 | L6-14 |
| 1947 Regular Week 9 | VMI | William & Mary | #13 | L20-28 |
| 1947 Regular Week 7 | VMI | Virginia | #16 | L6-35 |
| 1947 Regular Week 5 | VMI | Georgia Tech | #6 | L0-20 |
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
1949-1951 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -0.3 • Win % 31.5%
VMI
1947-1948 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -1.1 • Win % 52.8%
- Longest tenure
- Mississippi State • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Mississippi State • -0.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- VMI • 52.8%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Slick Morton
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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
1949-1951 • 8-18-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.3Win % 31.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.7 during vs 6.2 baseline
-3.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.3 during vs 10.3 baseline
-10.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
VMI
1947-1948 • 9-8-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -1.1Win % 52.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Mississippi State 1950
4-5 • SRS 6.5
Biggest Improvement
Mississippi State 1950
4-5 • 16.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Mississippi State 1949
0-8-1 • SRS -9.6
Biggest Drop
Mississippi State 1949
0-8-1 • -12.9 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 | 1951 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 2.3 | — | — | — | -4.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 1950 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | +16.1 | +38.9% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 1949 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5.6% | — | — | -9.6 | — | — | — | -12.9 | -61.1% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1948 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | +8.8 | +27.8% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1947 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -5.5 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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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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