Top 25
2-5-1
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 31.3%
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Charlie Tate
1964-1970 • Miami
One defining program at Miami.
Charlie Tate's coaching record is 34-27-3, highlighted by seasons at Miami from 1964 to 1970.
Charlie Tate coached 7 seasons, won 55.5%, and posted an average SRS of 8.1. Best season: 1967 Miami. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 34-27-3
- Career win rate
- 55.5%
- Average SRS
- 8.1
- Peak SRS
- 16.1
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- #9
- Consistency
- 29.4
Primary school anchor
Miami
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 76.1.
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
- 34-27-3
- Miami record
- 34-27-3
- Full-season record
- 33-26-3
- Partial-season record
- 1-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-3-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Florida State
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
64 countable games, 55.5% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Miami.
6 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.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Florida State-Miami games in this dataset.
2 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 5, 1970. 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.
Charlie Tate
EliteStrongAverageLean
1964Actual season year • SRS range -9.2 to 16.11970
Active comparison point
Charlie Tate • 1967
1967 Miami
Best season7-4 • SRS 16.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
+1.4
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
2-3-1
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 41.7%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results8
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Miami
1964-1970 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 8.1 • Win % 55.5%
- Longest tenure
- Miami • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Miami • 8.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Miami • 55.5%
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.
Charlie Tate sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeCharlie Tate sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Charlie Tate
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.1
- Percentile
- 25th 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.
Miami
1964-1970 • 34-27-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 8.1Win % 55.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 5.8 baseline
-0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.0 during vs 7.7 baseline
+3.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Miami 1967
7-4 • SRS 16.1
Biggest Improvement
Miami 1965
5-4-1 • 7.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Miami 1970
1-1 • SP Off 21.3
Best Defensive Season
Miami 1970
1-1 • SP Def 31.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Miami 1970
1-1 • SRS -9.2
Biggest Drop
Miami 1970
1-1 • -13.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Miami | 1970 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -9.2 | -11.1 | 21.3 | 31.4 | -13.6 | +10.0% | Partial season |
| Miami | 1969 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 4.4 | — | — | — | -4.6 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Miami | 1968 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | #20 | — | 9.0 | — | — | — | -7.1 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Miami | 1967 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | #5 | — | 16.1 | — | — | — | +1.4 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Miami | 1966 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | #9 | 14.7 | — | — | — | +0.1 | +22.3% | Season summary |
| Miami | 1965 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 14.6 | — | — | — | +7.6 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Miami | 1964 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 7.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.6
Avg SRS 8.7 • Peak SRS 19.8 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.5
Open profile →Jerry Stovall
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS 7.8 • Peak SRS 21.3 • 4 seasons
Best finish #11 • Volatility 9.5
Open profile →Lou Tepper
same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.2
Avg SRS 5.8 • Peak SRS 19.5 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.3
Open profile →Fran Curci
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS 8.2 • Peak SRS 21.8 • 11 seasons
Best finish #6 • Volatility 6.7
Open profile →Eli Drinkwitz
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.3
Avg SRS 6.8 • Peak SRS 14.7 • 7 seasons
Best finish #8 • Volatility 5.8
Open profile →Foge Fazio
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.6
Avg SRS 9.7 • Peak SRS 20.0 • 4 seasons
Best finish #10 • Volatility 7.6
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