Top 25
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Back to Coaches
Defense-FirstDefense-First
Coach Profile
Matt Drinkall
2025-2025 • Central Michigan
One defining program at Central Michigan.
Matt Drinkall coached 1 seasons, won —, 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
- 0-0
- Career win rate
- —
- 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.
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 season0-0 • SRS -8.4 • SP Overall -8.8
Win %
—
YoY SRS
—
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
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results1
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 % —
- Longest tenure
- Central Michigan • 1 seasons
- Best tenure
- Central Michigan • -8.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Central Michigan • —
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 • 0-0
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.4Win % —
Avg wins
Higher is better
0.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
-5.0
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
0-0 • SRS -8.4
Biggest Improvement
Unavailable
Best Offensive Season
Central Michigan 2025
0-0 • SP Off 17.6
Best Defensive Season
Central Michigan 2025
0-0 • SP Def 25.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Central Michigan 2025
0-0 • 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -8.4 | -8.8 | 17.6 | 25.7 | — | — |
Similar coaches
Related profiles are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Pete Alamar
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS -8.6 • Peak SRS -8.6 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →Jim Dennison
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS -8.2 • Peak SRS -8.2 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →Walter Kichefski
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.8
Avg SRS -9.2 • Peak SRS -9.2 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →Tom Alley
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS -8.2 • Peak SRS -7.3 • 2 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.9
Open profile →Bill Belichick
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.7
Avg SRS -6.7 • Peak SRS -6.7 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →Brandon Hall
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 2.0
Avg SRS -10.4 • Peak SRS -10.4 • 1 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0
Open profile →