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- Win rate
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Bob Commings
1974-1978 • Iowa
One defining program at Iowa.
Bob Commings coached 5 seasons, won 30.9%, and posted an average SRS of -1.8. Best season: 1977 Iowa. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 17-38
- Career win rate
- 30.9%
- Average SRS
- -1.8
- Peak SRS
- 2.5
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 85.5
Primary school anchor
Iowa
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 40.4.
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.
Bob Commings
EliteStrongAverageLean
1974Actual season year • SRS range -8.3 to 2.51978
Active comparison point
Bob Commings • 1977
1977 Iowa
Best season4-7 • SRS 2.5 • SP Overall -0.4
Win %
36.4%
YoY SRS
+0.8
SP Off / Def
21.8 / 22.0
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
0-9
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results18
| 1978 Regular Week 13 | Iowa | Michigan State | #12 | L7-42 |
| 1978 Regular Week 10 | Iowa | Michigan | #7 | L0-34 |
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Iowa | Purdue | #14 | L7-34 |
| 1978 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | Iowa State | #17 | L0-31 |
| 1977 Regular Week 9 | Iowa | Michigan | #6 | L6-23 |
| 1977 Regular Week 7 | Iowa | Ohio State | #4 | L6-27 |
| 1976 Regular Week 6 | Iowa | Ohio State | #9 | L14-34 |
| 1976 Regular Week 5 | Iowa | USC | #11 | L0-55 |
| 1976 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | Penn State | #20 | W7-6 |
| 1975 Regular Week 6 | Iowa | Ohio State | #1 | L0-49 |
| 1975 Regular Week 5 | Iowa | USC | #3 | L16-27 |
| 1975 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | Penn State | #12 | L10-30 |
| 1974 Regular Week 12 | Iowa | Michigan State | #14 | L21-60 |
| 1974 Regular Week 11 | Iowa | Ohio State | #4 | L10-35 |
| 1974 Regular Week 5 | Iowa | USC | #9 | L3-41 |
| 1974 Regular Week 4 | Iowa | Penn State | #19 | L0-27 |
| 1974 Regular Week 3 | Iowa | UCLA | #12 | W21-10 |
| 1974 Regular Week 2 | Iowa | Michigan | #6 | L7-24 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Iowa
1974-1978 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -1.8 • Win % 30.9%
- Longest tenure
- Iowa • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Iowa • -1.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Iowa • 30.9%
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.
Bob Commings sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBob Commings sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bob Commings
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.4
- Percentile
- 38th 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.
Iowa
1974-1978 • 17-38
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.8Win % 30.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 2.4 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.8 during vs -3.4 baseline
+1.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.4 during vs -12.6 baseline
+6.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Iowa 1977
4-7 • SRS 2.5
Biggest Improvement
Iowa 1976
5-6 • 4.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Iowa 1974
3-8 • SP Off 24.2
Best Defensive Season
Iowa 1977
4-7 • SP Def 22.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
Iowa 1978
2-9 • SRS -8.3
Biggest Drop
Iowa 1978
2-9 • -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.
| Iowa | 1978 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -8.3 | -13.8 | 16.5 | 29.0 | -10.8 | -18.2% |
| Iowa | 1977 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.5 | -0.4 | 21.8 | 22.0 | +0.8 | -9.1% |
| Iowa | 1976 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.7 | -6.7 | 18.3 | 24.8 | +4.1 | +18.2% |
| Iowa | 1975 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -2.4 | -8.0 | 22.0 | 29.4 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| Iowa | 1974 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -2.4 | -3.2 | 24.2 | 27.6 | — | — |
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