Top 25
4-15-1
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 22.5%
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Jack Christiansen
1972-1976 • Stanford
One defining program at Stanford.
Jack Christiansen's coaching record is 30-22-3, highlighted by seasons at Stanford from 1972 to 1976.
Jack Christiansen coached 5 seasons, won 57.3%, and posted an average SRS of 8.6. Best season: 1973 Stanford. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 30-22-3
- Career win rate
- 57.3%
- Average SRS
- 8.6
- Peak SRS
- 12.7
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
- 87.3
Primary school anchor
Stanford
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 67.6.
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
- 30-22-3
- Stanford record
- 30-22-3
- Full-season record
- 30-22-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-12-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-6-1
- Vs California
- 3-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
55 countable games, 57.3% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Stanford.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Big Game 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: Nov 20, 1976. 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.
Jack Christiansen
EliteStrongAverageLean
1972Actual season year • SRS range 4.2 to 12.71976
Active comparison point
Jack Christiansen • 1973
1973 Stanford
Best season7-4 • SRS 12.7 • SP Overall 12.2
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
0.0
SP Off / Def
32.2 / 21.0
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
1-12-1
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 10.7%
Top 5
0-6-1
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 7.1%
View ranked game results20
| 1976 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #3 | L24-48 |
| 1976 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | UCLA | #4 | L20-38 |
| 1976 Regular Week 3 | Stanford | Michigan | #1 | L0-51 |
| 1976 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Penn State | #7 | L12-15 |
| 1975 Regular Week 12 | Stanford | California | #13 | L15-48 |
| 1975 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #9 | W13-10 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Stanford | Michigan | #2 | T19-19 |
| 1975 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Penn State | #10 | L14-34 |
| 1974 Regular Week 12 | Stanford | California | #19 | W22-20 |
| 1974 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #11 | L10-34 |
| 1974 Regular Week 5 | Stanford | Michigan | #4 | L16-27 |
| 1974 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Penn State | #8 | L20-24 |
| 1973 Regular Week 11 | Stanford | USC | #9 | L26-27 |
| 1973 Regular Week 7 | Stanford | UCLA | #13 | L13-59 |
| 1973 Regular Week 4 | Stanford | Michigan | #4 | L10-47 |
| 1973 Regular Week 3 | Stanford | Penn State | #7 | L6-20 |
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Stanford | UCLA | #8 | L23-28 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Washington | #12 | W24-0 |
| 1972 Regular Week 5 | Stanford | USC | #1 | L21-30 |
| 1972 Regular Week 4 | Stanford | West Virginia | #20 | W41-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Stanford
1972-1976 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 8.6 • Win % 57.3%
- Longest tenure
- Stanford • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Stanford • 8.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Stanford • 57.3%
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.
Jack Christiansen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJack Christiansen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jack Christiansen
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.9
- Percentile
- 85th pct
Strong
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.
Stanford
1972-1976 • 30-22-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 8.6Win % 57.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 7.2 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
8.6 during vs 17.5 baseline
-8.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
9.9 during vs 20.4 baseline
-10.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-60.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Stanford 1973
7-4 • SRS 12.7
Biggest Improvement
Stanford 1975
6-4-1 • 4.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Stanford 1975
6-4-1 • SP Off 37.2
Best Defensive Season
Stanford 1972
6-5 • SP Def 18.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Stanford 1974
5-4-2 • SRS 4.2
Biggest Drop
Stanford 1974
5-4-2 • -8.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Stanford | 1976 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 5.1 | 8.6 | 32.6 | 25.7 | -3.2 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1975 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | #20 | — | 8.3 | 9.0 | 37.2 | 30.1 | +4.1 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1974 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 54.5% | — | — | 4.2 | 7.1 | 26.3 | 20.0 | -8.5 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1973 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 12.7 | 12.2 | 32.2 | 21.0 | 0.0 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Stanford | 1972 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | #20 | — | 12.7 | 12.8 | 30.1 | 18.3 | — | — | 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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Open profile →Dave Allerdice
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