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Spike Nelson

1938-1941 • Mississippi State, Yale

2 schools coached, anchored by Mississippi State.

Spike Nelson's coaching record is 5-13, highlighted by seasons at Mississippi State from 1938 to 1941.

Spike Nelson coached 2 seasons, won 27.8%, and posted an average SRS of -8.3. Best season: 1938 Mississippi State. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record: 5-13
Career win rate: 27.8%
Average SRS: -8.3
Peak SRS: -7.9

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: 2
Career span: 4 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: —

Primary school anchor

Mississippi State

Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 19.1.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

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Overall record: 5-13
Mississippi State record: 4-6
Full-season record: 5-13
Vs AP Top 25: 0-3
Vs AP Top 10: 0-0
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Vs Ole Miss: 0-1
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

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 22, 1941. 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.

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Spike Nelson: 1941 Yale

1938Actual season year • SRS range -8.6 to -7.91941

Active comparison point

Spike Nelson • 1938

Selected

1938 Mississippi State

Best season

4-6 • SRS -7.9 • SP Overall —

Win %

40.0%

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

— / —

Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

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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.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-3

Games: 3
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

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1941 Regular Week 5	Yale	Army	#19	L7-20
1941 Regular Week 4	Yale	Pennsylvania	#19	L13-28
1938 Regular Week 7	Mississippi State	Tulane	#18	L0-27

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Yale

1941-1941 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -8.6 • Win % 12.5%

Mississippi State

1938-1938 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -7.9 • Win % 40.0%

Longest tenure: Yale • 1 seasons
Best tenure: Mississippi State • -7.9 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Mississippi State • 40.0%

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 edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Spike Nelson

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall: —
Percentile: —

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.

Yale

1941-1941 • 1-7

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -8.6Win % 12.5%

No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Mississippi State

1938-1938 • 4-6

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -7.9Win % 40.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.0 during vs 5.4 baseline

-1.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-7.9 during vs 3.9 baseline

-11.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Mississippi State 1938

4-6 • SRS -7.9

Biggest Improvement

Yale 1941

1-7 • -0.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Yale 1941

1-7 • SRS -8.6

Biggest Drop

Yale 1941

1-7 • -0.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.


Yale	1941	8	1	7	0	12.5%	—	—	-8.6	—	—	—	-0.7	-27.5%	Season summary
Mississippi State	1938	10	4	6	0	40.0%	—	—	-7.9	—	—	—	—	—	Season summary

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