Illinois
2020-2020 • 0-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -7.4Win % 0.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Coach Profile
Rod Smith
College football coaching record, Illinois years & career stats
2020-2020 • Illinois
One defining program at Illinois.
Rod Smith's coaching record is 0-1, highlighted by seasons at Illinois from 2020 to 2020.
Rod Smith coached 1 seasons, won 0.0%, and posted an average SRS of -7.4. Best season: 2020 Illinois. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 0-1
- Career win rate
- 0.0%
- Average SRS
- -7.4
- Peak SRS
- -7.4
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
- 1
- Career span
- 1 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- —
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
- 0-1
- Illinois record
- 0-1
- Full-season record
- 0-0
- Partial-season record
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
1 countable games, 0.0% win rate.
1 countable seasons at Illinois.
0 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
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.
Career Résumé
Rod Smith season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 0
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
0% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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: Dec 19, 2020. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Rod Smith
Who is Rod Smith?
Rod Smith is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Illinois, with a 0-1 career record from 2020 across 1 countable season.
What is Rod Smith's college football coaching record?
Rod Smith's college football coaching record is 0-1 across 1 countable season, anchored by Illinois.
Which schools did Rod Smith coach?
Rod Smith coached at Illinois in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Rod Smith have?
Rod Smith had 0 winning seasons across 1 countable season row in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Rod Smith have?
Rod Smith had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Rod Smith have?
Rod Smith recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Rod Smith coach at Illinois?
Rod Smith's Illinois head coach years were 2020, covering 1 countable season with a 0-1 record.
How did Rod Smith do against ranked opponents?
Rod Smith's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.
How does CFBTrack count Rod Smith's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Rod Smith 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Rod Smith
EliteStrongAverageLean
2019Actual season year • SRS range -8.4 to -6.42021
Active comparison point
Rod Smith • 2020
2020 Illinois
Best seasonWorst season0-1 • SRS -7.4 • SP Overall -5.4
Win %
0.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
23.9 / 29.4
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Illinois • 1 seasons
- Best tenure
- Illinois • -7.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Illinois • 0.0%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Rod Smith sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Rod Smith
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -5.4
- Percentile
- 40th pct
Mixed
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Rod Smith coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Illinois 2020
0-1 • SRS -7.4
Biggest Improvement
Unavailable
Best Offensive Season
Illinois 2020
0-1 • SP Off 23.9
Best Defensive Season
Illinois 2020
0-1 • SP Def 29.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Illinois 2020
0-1 • SRS -7.4
Biggest Drop
Unavailable
Rod Smith coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| IllinoisBest | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -7.4 | -5.4 | 23.9 | 29.4 | — | — | Partial |
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