Top 25
5-23
- Games
- 28
- Win rate
- 17.9%
Longevity CoachOffense-First
Coach Profile
Butch Jones
College football coaching record, Arkansas State years & career stats
2007-2025 • Arkansas State, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, Tennessee
4 schools coached, anchored by Arkansas State.
Butch Jones's coaching record is 110-91, highlighted by seasons at Arkansas State from 2007 to 2025.
Butch Jones coached 16 seasons, won 54.7%, and posted an average SRS of -0.7. Best season: 2015 Tennessee. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 110-91
- Career win rate
- 54.7%
- Average SRS
- -0.7
- Peak SRS
- 17.7
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
- 16
- Career span
- 19 years
- Best finish
- #22
- Consistency
- 14.2
Primary school anchor
Offense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 79.6.
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
- 110-91
- Arkansas State record
- 26-37
- Full-season record
- 79-74
- Partial-season record
- 24-11
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-14
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-8
- Vs Memphis
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 6-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
201 countable games, 54.7% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Arkansas State.
12 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.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
Paint Bucket Bowl games in this dataset.
9 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
Butch Jones 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
- 10
- 10-win seasons
- 2
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
63% 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, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Butch Jones
Who is Butch Jones?
Butch Jones is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Arkansas State, with a 110-91 career record from 2007-2025 across 16 countable seasons.
What is Butch Jones's college football coaching record?
Butch Jones's college football coaching record is 110-91 across 16 countable seasons, anchored by Arkansas State.
Which schools did Butch Jones coach?
Butch Jones coached at Arkansas State, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, Tennessee in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Butch Jones have?
Butch Jones had 10 winning seasons across 16 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Butch Jones have?
Butch Jones had 2 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Butch Jones have?
Butch Jones recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Butch Jones coach at Arkansas State?
Butch Jones's Arkansas State head coach years were 2021-2025, covering 5 countable seasons with a 26-37 record.
How did Butch Jones do against ranked opponents?
Butch Jones's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 5-23 across 28 games.
How does CFBTrack count Butch Jones'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.
Butch Jones 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.
Butch Jones
EliteStrongAverageLean
Butch Jones: 2010 CincinnatiButch Jones: 2013 TennesseeButch Jones: 2021 Arkansas State
2007Actual season year • SRS range -16.8 to 17.72025
Active comparison point
Butch Jones • 2015
2015 Tennessee
Best season9-4 • SRS 17.7 • SP Overall 19.5
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
35.7 / 17.8
Finish
#22
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.
Top 10
0-14
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results28
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
- Arkansas State • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Tennessee • 6.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Central Michigan • 67.5%
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
Butch Jones sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Butch Jones
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 0.8
- Percentile
- 60th pct
Above average
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Butch Jones coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Arkansas State
2021-2025 • 26-37
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -11.3Win % 41.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.2 during vs 7.0 baseline
-1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-11.3 during vs -4.0 baseline
-7.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.2 during vs -1.6 baseline
-9.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Tennessee
2013-2017 • 34-27
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 6.8Win % 55.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 5.1 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.3 during vs 4.8 baseline
+5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.3 during vs 11.6 baseline
+1.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Cincinnati
2010-2012 • 23-14
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.4Win % 62.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 8.2 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.9 during vs 5.9 baseline
-3.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 8.5 baseline
-0.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-10.0%
Central Michigan
2007-2009 • 27-13
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.8Win % 67.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 5.2 baseline
+2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.0 during vs -12.0 baseline
+7.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.1 during vs -15.6 baseline
+7.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tennessee 2015
9-4 • SRS 17.7
Biggest Improvement
Central Michigan 2009
11-2 • 11.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Tennessee 2016
9-4 • SP Off 39.9
Best Defensive Season
Tennessee 2015
9-4 • SP Def 17.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Arkansas State 2021
2-10 • SRS -16.8
Biggest Drop
Tennessee 2017
4-6 • -17.7 SRS
Butch Jones 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.
| Arkansas State | 2025 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -10.2 | -8.8 | 24.4 | 33.5 | +1.3 | -7.7% | Game fallback |
| Arkansas State | 2024 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -11.5 | -9.9 | 24.6 | 35.2 | -5.1 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Arkansas State | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -6.4 | -6.3 | 25.8 | 32.8 | +5.0 | +21.1% | Season summary |
| Arkansas State | 2022 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -11.4 | -13.0 | 23.7 | 38.5 | +5.4 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Arkansas StateLowest | 2021 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -16.8 | -17.9 | 21.0 | 40.0 | -9.5 | -23.3% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2017 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | #25 | — | -7.3 | 1.2 | 25.8 | 25.7 | -17.7 | -29.2% | Partial |
| Tennessee | 2016 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #9 | #22 | 10.4 | 16.3 | 39.9 | 25.2 | -7.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TennesseeBest | 2015 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #25 | #22 | 17.7 | 19.5 | 35.7 | 17.8 | +6.8 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2014 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 10.9 | 12.2 | 31.0 | 19.9 | +8.5 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2013 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 2.4 | 5.1 | 29.2 | 26.1 | -8.1 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 2012 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 10.5 | 11.1 | 33.8 | 23.7 | +2.6 | -1.9% | Partial |
| Cincinnati | 2011 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #25 | 7.9 | 12.8 | 30.1 | 17.8 | +10.0 | +43.6% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 2010 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -2.1 | 2.5 | 28.4 | 27.7 | -6.6 | -51.3% | Season summary |
| Central Michigan | 2009 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #23 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 29.1 | 25.7 | +11.4 | +23.1% | Partial |
| Central Michigan | 2008 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -6.9 | -5.6 | 30.1 | 36.3 | -3.8 | +4.4% | Season summary |
| Central Michigan | 2007 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -3.1 | -10.6 | 30.2 | 39.8 | — | — | Season summary |
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