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Ray Eliot
1942-1959 • Illinois
One defining program at Illinois.
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.
- 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.
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
1946 Illinois
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-2 • 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.
Top 10
6-25-1
- Games
- 32
- Win rate
- 20.3%
Top 5
3-11
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 21.4%
View ranked game results50
| 1959 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #9 | W9-6 |
| 1959 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Purdue | #14 | T7-7 |
| 1959 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Penn State | #7 | L9-20 |
| 1958 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #5 | L12-31 |
| 1958 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Purdue | #8 | L8-31 |
| 1958 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Ohio State | #3 | L13-19 |
| 1957 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #18 | L13-24 |
| 1957 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan | #18 | W20-19 |
| 1957 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Michigan State | #6 | L14-19 |
| 1957 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Minnesota | #14 | W34-13 |
| 1957 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | UCLA | #19 | L6-16 |
| 1956 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan | #10 | L7-17 |
| 1956 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Michigan State | #4 | W20-13 |
| 1956 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Ohio State | #5 | L6-26 |
| 1955 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #3 | W25-6 |
| 1955 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Michigan State | #6 | L7-21 |
| 1954 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #14 | L14-27 |
| 1954 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Purdue | #9 | L14-28 |
| 1954 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Minnesota | #11 | L6-19 |
| 1954 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Ohio State | #10 | L7-40 |
| 1953 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #8 | L7-34 |
| 1953 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Ohio State | #17 | W41-20 |
| 1952 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #20 | W22-13 |
| 1952 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Purdue | #9 | L12-40 |
| 1952 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #12 | L6-20 |
| 1951 Postseason Week 1 | Illinois | Stanford | #7 | W40-7 |
| 1950 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Washington | #12 | W20-13 |
| 1950 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | UCLA | #18 | W14-6 |
| 1950 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Wisconsin | #16 | L6-7 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #6 | L0-13 |
| 1949 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Iowa | #15 | W20-14 |
| 1948 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #1 | L20-28 |
| 1948 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Minnesota | #14 | L0-6 |
| 1948 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Army | #4 | L21-26 |
| 1947 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #2 | L7-14 |
| 1947 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Minnesota | #20 | W40-13 |
| 1947 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Army | #9 | T0-0 |
| 1946 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Michigan | #8 | W13-9 |
| 1946 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | Notre Dame | #2 | L6-26 |
| 1946 Postseason Week 1 | Illinois | UCLA | #4 | W45-14 |
| 1945 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #7 | L0-19 |
| 1945 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Indiana | #6 | L0-6 |
| 1945 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Notre Dame | #2 | L0-7 |
| 1944 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Great Lakes Navy | #13 | T26-26 |
| 1943 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan | #3 | L6-42 |
| 1943 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Notre Dame | #1 | L0-47 |
| 1943 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Purdue | #4 | L21-40 |
| 1943 Regular Week 2 | Illinois | Iowa Pre-Flight | #7 | L18-32 |
| 1942 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Notre Dame | #8 | L14-21 |
| 1942 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Minnesota | #16 | W20-13 |
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 edgeNot 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
Worst 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.
| Illinois | 1959 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | #13 | 11.4 | — | — | — | +0.3 | +16.7% |
| Illinois | 1958 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 11.1 | — | — | — | -2.3 | 0.0% |
| Illinois | 1957 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 13.4 | — | — | — | +2.6 | +11.1% |
| Illinois | 1956 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 33.3% | #20 | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +2.7 | -27.8% |
| Illinois | 1955 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 8.1 | — | — | — | +4.8 | +50.0% |
| Illinois | 1954 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | #5 | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | -15.8 | -72.2% |
| Illinois | 1953 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | #7 | 19.1 | — | — | — | +8.6 | +38.9% |
| Illinois | 1952 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | #5 | — | 10.5 | — | — | — | -11.3 | -50.6% |
| Illinois | 1951 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | #10 | #4 | 21.8 | — | — | — | +3.6 | +17.2% |
| Illinois | 1950 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | #8 | #13 | 18.2 | — | — | — | +5.3 | +33.3% |
| Illinois | 1949 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 44.4% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | +5.0 | +11.1% |
| Illinois | 1948 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 7.9 | — | — | — | -9.6 | -27.8% |
| Illinois | 1947 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 17.5 | — | — | — | -11.8 | -18.9% |
| Illinois | 1946 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #5 | 29.3 | — | — | — | +16.4 | +52.2% |
| Illinois | 1945 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | -6.2 | -27.2% |
| Illinois | 1944 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | #15 | 19.1 | — | — | — | +16.1 | +25.0% |
| Illinois | 1943 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | -7.0 | -30.0% |
| Illinois | 1942 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 10.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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