Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Chris Creighton
2014-2025 • Eastern Michigan
One defining program at Eastern Michigan.
Chris Creighton's coaching record is 61-83, highlighted by seasons at Eastern Michigan from 2014 to 2025.
Chris Creighton coached 12 seasons, won 42.4%, and posted an average SRS of -12.2. Best season: 2018 Eastern Michigan. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 61-83
- Career win rate
- 42.4%
- Average SRS
- -12.2
- Peak SRS
- -3.4
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
- 12
- Career span
- 12 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 39.9
Primary school anchor
Eastern Michigan
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 27.3.
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
- 61-83
- Eastern Michigan record
- 61-83
- Full-season record
- 57-75
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Central Michigan
- 4-8
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-5
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
144 countable games, 42.4% win rate.
12 countable seasons at Eastern Michigan.
11 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Central Michigan-Eastern Michigan games in this dataset.
6 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 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.
Chris Creighton
EliteStrongAverageLean
2014Actual season year • SRS range -27.1 to -3.42025
Active comparison point
Chris Creighton • 2018
2018 Eastern Michigan
Best season7-6 • SRS -3.4 • SP Overall -2.0
Win %
53.8%
YoY SRS
+0.8
SP Off / Def
25.5 / 26.1
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- 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
Eastern Michigan
2014-2025 • 12 seasons
Avg SRS -12.2 • Win % 42.4%
- Longest tenure
- Eastern Michigan • 12 seasons
- Best tenure
- Eastern Michigan • -12.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Eastern Michigan • 42.4%
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.
Chris Creighton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChris Creighton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chris Creighton
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.3
- Percentile
- 24th 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.
Eastern Michigan
2014-2025 • 61-83
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -12.2Win % 42.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.1 during vs 2.2 baseline
+2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-12.2 during vs -23.7 baseline
+11.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.3 during vs -27.2 baseline
+15.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Eastern Michigan 2018
7-6 • SRS -3.4
Biggest Improvement
Eastern Michigan 2016
7-6 • 13.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Eastern Michigan 2019
6-7 • SP Off 29.3
Best Defensive Season
Eastern Michigan 2018
7-6 • SP Def 26.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Eastern Michigan 2014
2-10 • SRS -27.1
Biggest Drop
Eastern Michigan 2023
6-7 • -7.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Eastern Michigan | 2025 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -16.2 | -14.7 | 19.4 | 34.1 | -4.1 | -8.3% | Completed-game fallback |
| Eastern Michigan | 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -12.1 | -13.3 | 20.5 | 34.3 | +4.8 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -16.9 | -12.3 | 13.0 | 26.8 | -7.7 | -23.1% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2022 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | -9.2 | -7.1 | 24.0 | 32.4 | -4.3 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2021 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -4.9 | -7.8 | 27.2 | 37.2 | — | +20.5% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2020 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -12.8% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2019 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -9.3 | -8.6 | 29.3 | 37.8 | -5.9 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2018 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -3.4 | -2.0 | 25.5 | 26.1 | +0.8 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2017 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -4.2 | -5.3 | 22.0 | 26.4 | +4.5 | -12.2% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2016 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -8.7 | -8.2 | 28.3 | 36.6 | +13.8 | +45.5% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2015 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -22.5 | -19.7 | 25.6 | 45.5 | +4.6 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 2014 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -27.1 | -25.9 | 17.8 | 42.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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