Top 25
12-17
- Games
- 29
- Win rate
- 41.4%
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Consistent WinnerOffense-First
Coach Profile
Josh Heupel
2018-2025 • Tennessee, UCF
2 schools coached, anchored by Tennessee.
Josh Heupel's coaching record is 73-28, highlighted by seasons at Tennessee from 2018 to 2025.
Josh Heupel coached 8 seasons, won 72.3%, and posted an average SRS of 13.0. Best season: 2022 Tennessee. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 73-28
- Career win rate
- 72.3%
- Average SRS
- 13.0
- Peak SRS
- 19.9
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #6
- Consistency
- 86.6
Primary school anchor
Tennessee
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 83.9.
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
- 73-28
- Tennessee record
- 45-20
- Full-season record
- 65-23
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-5
- Vs Kentucky
- 5-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-5
- CFP record
- 0-1
- National titles
- 0
101 countable games, 72.3% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Tennessee.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
Kentucky-Tennessee games in this dataset.
8 scored postseason games in this dataset.
1 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: Dec 30, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Josh Heupel
EliteStrongAverageLean
Josh Heupel: 2021 Tennessee
2018Actual season year • SRS range 8.0 to 19.92025
Active comparison point
Josh Heupel • 2022
2022 Tennessee
Best seasonBiggest improvement11-2 • SRS 19.9 • SP Overall 25.2
Win %
84.6%
YoY SRS
+11.9
SP Off / Def
47.3 / 22.6
Finish
#6
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
2-9
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 18.2%
Top 5
1-5
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 16.7%
View ranked game results29
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Tennessee
2021-2025 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 12.6 • Win % 69.2%
UCF
2018-2020 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 14.1 • Win % 77.8%
- Longest tenure
- Tennessee • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- UCF • 14.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- UCF • 77.8%
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.
Josh Heupel sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJosh Heupel sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Josh Heupel
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.8
- Percentile
- 97th pct
Elite
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.
Tennessee
2021-2025 • 45-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.6Win % 69.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.0 during vs 5.4 baseline
+3.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.6 during vs 1.4 baseline
+11.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
19.2 during vs 6.9 baseline
+12.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
60.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+40.0%
UCF
2018-2020 • 28-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.1Win % 77.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 8.0 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.1 during vs 1.5 baseline
+12.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.8 during vs 2.9 baseline
+14.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
-6.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tennessee 2022
11-2 • SRS 19.9
Biggest Improvement
Tennessee 2022
11-2 • 11.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Tennessee 2022
11-2 • SP Off 47.3
Best Defensive Season
Tennessee 2024
10-3 • SP Def 13.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Tennessee 2021
7-6 • SRS 8.0
Biggest Drop
Tennessee 2023
9-4 • -10.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Tennessee | 2025 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 11.7 | 15.0 | 39.3 | 25.4 | -2.6 | -15.4% | Completed-game fallback |
| Tennessee | 2024 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #15 | #9 | 14.3 | 22.0 | 33.7 | 13.5 | +5.2 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #12 | #17 | 9.1 | 16.2 | 34.9 | 19.2 | -10.8 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2022 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #6 | 19.9 | 25.2 | 47.3 | 22.6 | +11.9 | +30.8% | Season summary |
| Tennessee | 2021 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 8.0 | 17.5 | 39.4 | 23.8 | — | -6.2% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2020 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | -16.9% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2019 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #17 | #24 | 13.3 | 19.1 | 37.3 | 18.1 | -1.6 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| UCF | 2018 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #21 | — | 14.9 | 16.5 | 39.9 | 25.2 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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Best finish #16 • Volatility 6.2
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Best finish #3 • Volatility 5.1
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avg SRS within 0.3 • volatility within 0.1
Avg SRS 13.4 • Peak SRS 19.9 • 7 seasons
Best finish #5 • Volatility 3.5
Open profile →Tommy Bowden
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.0
Avg SRS 9.8 • Peak SRS 14.6 • 12 seasons
Best finish #7 • Volatility 3.7
Open profile →Noble Kizer
avg SRS within 1.1 • volatility within 0.5
Avg SRS 14.2 • Peak SRS 19.8 • 7 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.2
Open profile →John Barnhill
avg SRS within 0.0 • volatility within 1.6
Avg SRS 13.1 • Peak SRS 21.6 • 8 seasons
Best finish #7 • Volatility 5.3
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