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Coach Profile

Jack Christiansen

1972-1976 • Stanford

One defining program at Stanford.

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.

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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: 87.5

Primary school anchor

Stanford

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 67.7.

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

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1972Actual season year • SRS range 4.2 to 12.71976

Active comparison point

Jack Christiansen • 1973

Selected

1973 Stanford

Best season

7-4 • 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.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

4-15-1

Games: 20
Win rate: 22.5%

Top 10

1-12-1

Games: 14
Win rate: 10.7%

Top 5

0-6-1

Games: 7
Win rate: 7.1%

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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 edge

Jack Christiansen sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Jack Christiansen

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Raw avg SP Overall: 9.9
Percentile: 85th pct

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

Worst 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%
Stanford	1975	11	6	4	1	59.1%	#20	—	8.3	9.0	37.2	30.1	+4.1	+4.5%
Stanford	1974	11	5	4	2	54.5%	—	—	4.2	7.1	26.3	20.0	-8.5	-9.1%
Stanford	1973	11	7	4	0	63.6%	—	—	12.7	12.2	32.2	21.0	0.0	+9.1%
Stanford	1972	11	6	5	0	54.5%	#20	—	12.7	12.8	30.1	18.3	—	—

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.5

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