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Ray Eliot

1942-1959 • Illinois

One defining program at Illinois.

Ray Eliot's coaching record is 83-73-11, highlighted by seasons at Illinois from 1942 to 1959.

Ray Eliot coached 18 seasons, won 53.0%, and posted an average SRS of 13.3. Best season: 1946 Illinois. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record
83-73-11
Career win rate
53.0%
Average SRS
13.3
Peak SRS
29.3

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
18
Career span
18 years
Best finish
#4
Consistency
54.6

Primary school anchor

Illinois

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 96.3.

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.

Compare Ray Eliot
Overall record
83-73-11

167 countable games, 53.0% win rate.

Illinois record
83-73-11

18 countable seasons at Illinois.

Full-season record
83-73-11

18 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
15-32-3

50 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
6-25-1

32 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
3-11

14 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Northwestern
8-9-1

Illinois-Northwestern games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
2-0

2 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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 21, 1959. 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.

Ray Eliot
EliteStrongAverageLean
1942Actual season year • SRS range 3.0 to 29.31959

Active comparison point

Ray Eliot • 1946

Selected

1946 Illinois

Best seasonBiggest improvement

8-2 • SRS 29.3 • SP Overall —

Win %

80.0%

YoY SRS

+16.4

SP Off / Def

— / —

Finish

#5

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
Ranking timing

Top 25

15-32-3

Games
50
Win rate
33.0%

Top 10

6-25-1

Games
32
Win rate
20.3%

Top 5

3-11

Games
14
Win rate
21.4%
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1959 Regular Week 10IllinoisWisconsin#9W9-6
1959 Regular Week 8IllinoisPurdue#14T7-7
1959 Regular Week 7IllinoisPenn State#7L9-20
1958 Regular Week 10IllinoisWisconsin#5L12-31
1958 Regular Week 8IllinoisPurdue#8L8-31
1958 Regular Week 5IllinoisOhio State#3L13-19
1957 Regular Week 10IllinoisWisconsin#18L13-24
1957 Regular Week 9IllinoisMichigan#18W20-19
1957 Regular Week 7IllinoisMichigan State#6L14-19
1957 Regular Week 6IllinoisMinnesota#14W34-13
1957 Regular Week 3IllinoisUCLA#19L6-16
1956 Regular Week 9IllinoisMichigan#10L7-17
1956 Regular Week 7IllinoisMichigan State#4W20-13
1956 Regular Week 5IllinoisOhio State#5L6-26
1955 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#3W25-6
1955 Regular Week 6IllinoisMichigan State#6L7-21
1954 Regular Week 9IllinoisWisconsin#14L14-27
1954 Regular Week 7IllinoisPurdue#9L14-28
1954 Regular Week 5IllinoisMinnesota#11L6-19
1954 Regular Week 4IllinoisOhio State#10L7-40
1953 Regular Week 9IllinoisWisconsin#8L7-34
1953 Regular Week 4IllinoisOhio State#17W41-20
1952 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#20W22-13
1952 Regular Week 7IllinoisPurdue#9L12-40
1952 Regular Week 4IllinoisWisconsin#12L6-20
1951 Postseason Week 1IllinoisStanford#7W40-7
1950 Regular Week 6IllinoisWashington#12W20-13
1950 Regular Week 5IllinoisUCLA#18W14-6
1950 Regular Week 4IllinoisWisconsin#16L6-7
1949 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#6L0-13
1949 Regular Week 5IllinoisIowa#15W20-14
1948 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#1L20-28
1948 Regular Week 6IllinoisMinnesota#14L0-6
1948 Regular Week 5IllinoisArmy#4L21-26
1947 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#2L7-14
1947 Regular Week 6IllinoisMinnesota#20W40-13
1947 Regular Week 5IllinoisArmy#9T0-0
1946 Regular Week 7IllinoisMichigan#8W13-9
1946 Regular Week 3IllinoisNotre Dame#2L6-26
1946 Postseason Week 1IllinoisUCLA#4W45-14
1945 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#7L0-19
1945 Regular Week 5IllinoisIndiana#6L0-6
1945 Regular Week 4IllinoisNotre Dame#2L0-7
1944 Regular Week 6IllinoisGreat Lakes Navy#13T26-26
1943 Regular Week 8IllinoisMichigan#3L6-42
1943 Regular Week 7IllinoisNotre Dame#1L0-47
1943 Regular Week 4IllinoisPurdue#4L21-40
1943 Regular Week 2IllinoisIowa Pre-Flight#7L18-32
1942 Regular Week 7IllinoisNotre Dame#8L14-21
1942 Regular Week 5IllinoisMinnesota#16W20-13

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Illinois

1942-1959 • 18 seasons

Avg SRS 13.3 • Win % 53.0%

Longest tenure
Illinois • 18 seasons
Best tenure
Illinois • 13.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Illinois • 53.0%

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.

Ray Eliot

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.

Illinois

1942-1959 • 83-73-11

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

Avg SRS 13.3Win % 53.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.6 during vs 2.4 baseline

+2.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

13.3 during vs 1.2 baseline

+12.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline

+33.3%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Illinois 1946

8-2 • SRS 29.3

Biggest Improvement

Illinois 1946

8-2 • 16.4 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Illinois 1943

3-7 • SRS 3.0

Biggest Drop

Illinois 1954

1-8 • -15.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Illinois1959953161.1%—#1311.4———+0.3+16.7%Season summary
Illinois1958945044.4%——11.1———-2.30.0%Season summary
Illinois1957945044.4%——13.4———+2.6+11.1%Season summary
Illinois1956925233.3%#20—10.8———+2.7-27.8%Season summary
Illinois1955953161.1%——8.1———+4.8+50.0%Season summary
Illinois1954918011.1%#5—3.3———-15.8-72.2%Season summary
Illinois1953971183.3%—#719.1———+8.6+38.9%Season summary
Illinois1952945044.4%#5—10.5———-11.3-50.6%Season summary
Illinois19511090195.0%#10#421.8———+3.6+17.2%Season summary
Illinois1950972077.8%#8#1318.2———+5.3+33.3%Season summary
Illinois1949934244.4%——12.9———+5.0+11.1%Season summary
Illinois1948936033.3%——7.9———-9.6-27.8%Season summary
Illinois1947953161.1%——17.5———-11.8-18.9%Season summary
Illinois19461082080.0%—#529.3———+16.4+52.2%Season summary
Illinois1945926127.8%——12.9———-6.2-27.2%Season summary
Illinois19441054155.0%—#1519.1———+16.1+25.0%Season summary
Illinois19431037030.0%——3.0———-7.0-30.0%Season summary
Illinois19421064060.0%——10.0—————Season summary

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