Top 25
7-12
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 36.8%
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Coach Profile
Bill Walsh
1977-1994 • Stanford
One defining program at Stanford.
Bill Walsh coached 5 seasons, won 58.5%, and posted an average SRS of 9.6. Best season: 1978 Stanford. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 34-24-1
- Career win rate
- 58.5%
- Average SRS
- 9.6
- Peak SRS
- 18.1
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
- 18 years
- Best finish
- #9
- Consistency
- 44.2
Primary school anchor
Stanford
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 80.6.
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.
Bill Walsh
EliteStrongAverageLean
1977Actual season year • SRS range 1.3 to 18.11994
Active comparison point
Bill Walsh • 1978
1978 Stanford
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-4 • SRS 18.1 • SP Overall 20.4
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+9.9
SP Off / Def
36.9 / 17.8
Finish
#17
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
2-6
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results19
| 1994 Regular Week 12 | Stanford | Oregon | #15 | L21-55 |
| 1994 Regular Week 11 | Stanford | Washington | #12 | W46-28 |
| 1994 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #8 | L15-34 |
| 1994 Regular Week 5 | Stanford | Arizona | #8 | L10-34 |
| 1993 Regular Week 8 | Stanford | Arizona | #11 | L24-27 |
| 1993 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #4 | L20-48 |
| 1993 Regular Week 4 | Stanford | Colorado | #7 | W41-37 |
| 1993 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Washington | #12 | L14-31 |
| 1992 Regular Week 12 | Stanford | Washington State | #21 | W40-3 |
| 1992 Regular Week 11 | Stanford | USC | #11 | W23-9 |
| 1992 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | Washington | #2 | L7-41 |
| 1992 Regular Week 7 | Stanford | UCLA | #19 | W19-7 |
| 1992 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #6 | W33-16 |
| 1978 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #5 | L7-13 |
| 1978 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | UCLA | #14 | L26-27 |
| 1978 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Oklahoma | #3 | L29-35 |
| 1978 Postseason Week 1 | Stanford | Georgia | #16 | W25-22 |
| 1977 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #14 | L0-49 |
| 1977 Regular Week 2 | Stanford | Colorado | #12 | L21-27 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Stanford
1992-1994 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 7.2 • Win % 50.0%
Stanford
1977-1978 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 13.2 • Win % 70.8%
- Longest tenure
- Stanford • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Stanford • 13.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Stanford • 70.8%
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.
Bill Walsh sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBill Walsh sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill Walsh
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.2
- Percentile
- 86th pct
Elite
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.
Stanford
1992-1994 • 17-17-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.2Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 4.8 baseline
+0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.2 during vs 7.4 baseline
-0.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
8.2 during vs 9.8 baseline
-1.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 20.0% baseline
+13.3%
Stanford
1977-1978 • 17-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 13.2Win % 70.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.5 during vs 6.0 baseline
+2.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
13.2 during vs 8.6 baseline
+4.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.2 during vs 9.9 baseline
+3.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+100.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Stanford 1978
8-4 • SRS 18.1
Biggest Improvement
Stanford 1978
8-4 • 9.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Stanford 1993
4-7 • SP Off 39.2
Best Defensive Season
Stanford 1992
10-3 • SP Def 12.5
Setbacks
Worst Season
Stanford 1994
3-7-1 • SRS 1.3
Biggest Drop
Stanford 1993
4-7 • -14.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Stanford | 1994 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | 1.3 | -1.1 | 37.8 | 37.9 | -1.6 | -4.5% |
| Stanford | 1993 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | #15 | — | 2.9 | 3.7 | 39.2 | 36.3 | -14.4 | -40.6% |
| Stanford | 1992 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #17 | #9 | 17.3 | 22.1 | 34.2 | 12.5 | -0.8 | +10.3% |
| Stanford | 1978 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #17 | 18.1 | 20.4 | 36.9 | 17.8 | +9.9 | -8.3% |
| Stanford | 1977 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #15 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 30.8 | 26.7 | — | — |
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