Top 25
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
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Shawn Elliott
2015-2023 • Georgia State, South Carolina
2 schools coached, anchored by Georgia State.
Shawn Elliott's coaching record is 42-49, highlighted by seasons at Georgia State from 2015 to 2023.
Shawn Elliott coached 8 seasons, won 46.2%, and posted an average SRS of -7.3. Best season: 2020 Georgia State. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 42-49
- Career win rate
- 46.2%
- Average SRS
- -7.3
- Peak SRS
- 1.9
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
- 9 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 51.6
Primary school anchor
Georgia State
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 39.4.
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
- 42-49
- Georgia State record
- 41-44
- Full-season record
- 41-44
- Partial-season record
- 1-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Georgia Southern
- 4-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 4-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
91 countable games, 46.2% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Georgia State.
7 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.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Modern Day Hate games in this dataset.
5 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 23, 2023. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Shawn Elliott
EliteStrongAverageLean
Shawn Elliott: 2017 Georgia State
2015Actual season year • SRS range -19.4 to 1.92024
Active comparison point
Shawn Elliott • 2020
2020 Georgia State
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-4 • SRS 1.9 • SP Overall -5.7
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+12.2
SP Off / Def
28.7 / 34.2
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results9
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Georgia State
2017-2023 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -8.6 • Win % 48.2%
South Carolina
2015-2015 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 1.4 • Win % 16.7%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia State • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- South Carolina • 1.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia State • 48.2%
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.
Shawn Elliott sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeShawn Elliott sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Shawn Elliott
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.9
- Percentile
- 36th 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.
Georgia State
2017-2023 • 41-44
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.6Win % 48.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.9 during vs 2.0 baseline
+3.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-8.6 during vs -18.7 baseline
+10.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.4 during vs -18.6 baseline
+10.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
South Carolina
2015-2015 • 1-5
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 1.4Win % 16.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia State 2020
6-4 • SRS 1.9
Biggest Improvement
Georgia State 2020
6-4 • 12.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Georgia State 2022
4-8 • SP Off 33.7
Best Defensive Season
Georgia State 2021
8-5 • SP Def 26.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Georgia State 2018
2-10 • SRS -19.4
Biggest Drop
Georgia State 2017
7-5 • -14.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia State | 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -12.9 | -17.9 | 21.0 | 37.4 | — | — | Provisional placeholder |
| Georgia State | 2023 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -7.7 | -6.8 | 28.2 | 33.3 | -2.5 | +20.5% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2022 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -5.2 | -3.3 | 33.7 | 38.3 | +1.4 | -28.2% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2021 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -6.6 | 1.8 | 27.5 | 26.7 | -8.5 | +1.5% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2020 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 1.9 | -5.7 | 28.7 | 34.2 | +12.2 | +6.2% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2019 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -10.3 | -10.5 | 29.4 | 38.4 | +9.1 | +37.2% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2018 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -19.4 | -20.4 | 23.6 | 43.6 | -6.8 | -41.7% | Season summary |
| Georgia State | 2017 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -12.6 | -14.0 | 17.0 | 28.6 | -14.0 | +41.7% | Season summary |
| South Carolina | 2015 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | 1.4 | 3.4 | 31.3 | 28.6 | — | — | Partial season |
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Statistical comps
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