Top 25
3-6
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 33.3%
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Shawn Clark
2019-2024 • App State
One defining program at App State.
Shawn Clark's coaching record is 40-24, highlighted by seasons at App State from 2019 to 2024.
Shawn Clark coached 6 seasons, won 62.5%, and posted an average SRS of 3.3. Best season: 2019 App State. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 40-24
- Career win rate
- 62.5%
- Average SRS
- 3.3
- Peak SRS
- 11.5
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- #19
- Consistency
- 52.6
Primary school anchor
App State
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 65.1.
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
- 40-24
- App State record
- 40-24
- Full-season record
- 39-24
- Partial-season record
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Georgia Southern
- 3-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
64 countable games, 62.5% win rate.
6 countable seasons at App State.
5 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.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deeper than Hate games in this dataset.
3 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 30, 2024. 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.
Shawn Clark
EliteStrongAverageLean
2019Actual season year • SRS range -7.6 to 11.52024
Active comparison point
Shawn Clark • 2019
2019 App State
Best season1-0 • SRS 11.5 • SP Overall 11.3
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
34.3 / 23.2
Finish
#19
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
1-0
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 100.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results9
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
App State
2019-2024 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 3.3 • Win % 62.5%
- Longest tenure
- App State • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- App State • 3.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- App State • 62.5%
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.
Shawn Clark sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeShawn Clark sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Shawn Clark
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 4.9
- Percentile
- 72th 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.
App State
2019-2024 • 40-24
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.3Win % 62.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.8 during vs 8.5 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
1.7 during vs 2.3 baseline
-0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
3.6 during vs 4.9 baseline
-1.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
App State 2019
1-0 • SRS 11.5
Biggest Improvement
App State 2023
9-5 • 1.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
App State 2019
1-0 • SP Off 34.3
Best Defensive Season
App State 2020
9-3 • SP Def 22.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
App State 2024
5-6 • SRS -7.6
Biggest Drop
App State 2022
6-6 • -8.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| App State | 2024 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -7.6 | -8.1 | 27.2 | 33.6 | -8.4 | -18.8% | Season summary |
| App State | 2023 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 0.8 | 3.8 | 33.5 | 30.7 | +1.6 | +14.3% | Season summary |
| App State | 2022 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -0.8 | 1.7 | 32.9 | 29.8 | -8.8 | -21.4% | Season summary |
| App State | 2021 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 8.0 | 10.3 | 32.0 | 23.5 | 0.0 | -3.6% | Season summary |
| App State | 2020 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 8.0 | 10.3 | 33.0 | 22.6 | -3.5 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| App State | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #19 | 11.5 | 11.3 | 34.3 | 23.2 | — | — | Partial season |
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