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Matt Drinkall
2025-2025 • Central Michigan
One defining program at Central Michigan.
Matt Drinkall's coaching record is 7-6, highlighted by seasons at Central Michigan from 2025 to 2025.
Matt Drinkall coached 1 seasons, won 53.8%, and posted an average SRS of -8.4. Best season: 2025 Central Michigan. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 7-6
- Career win rate
- 53.8%
- Average SRS
- -8.4
- Peak SRS
- -8.4
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
- —
Primary school anchor
Central Michigan
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 18.0.
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
- 7-6
- Central Michigan record
- 7-6
- Full-season record
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Eastern Michigan
- 1-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
13 countable games, 53.8% win rate.
1 countable seasons at Central Michigan.
0 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Central Michigan-Eastern Michigan games in this dataset.
1 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: Dec 26, 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.
Matt Drinkall
EliteStrongAverageLean
2024Actual season year • SRS range -9.4 to -7.42026
Active comparison point
Matt Drinkall • 2025
2025 Central Michigan
Best seasonWorst season7-6 • SRS -8.4 • SP Overall -8.8
Win %
53.8%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
17.6 / 25.7
Finish
Unranked
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
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- Win rate
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Top 5
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- Win rate
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Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Central Michigan
2025-2025 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -8.4 • Win % 53.8%
- Longest tenure
- Central Michigan • 1 seasons
- Best tenure
- Central Michigan • -8.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Central Michigan • 53.8%
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.
Matt Drinkall sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMatt Drinkall sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Matt Drinkall
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -8.8
- Percentile
- 30th pct
Lower end
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.
Central Michigan
2025-2025 • 7-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.4Win % 53.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-8.4 during vs -11.5 baseline
+3.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.8 during vs -12.5 baseline
+3.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Central Michigan 2025
7-6 • SRS -8.4
Biggest Improvement
Unavailable
Best Offensive Season
Central Michigan 2025
7-6 • SP Off 17.6
Best Defensive Season
Central Michigan 2025
7-6 • SP Def 25.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Central Michigan 2025
7-6 • SRS -8.4
Biggest Drop
Unavailable
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Central Michigan | 2025 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -8.4 | -8.8 | 17.6 | 25.7 | — | — | Completed-game fallback |
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Statistical comps
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