Top 25
13-41
- Games
- 54
- Win rate
- 24.1%
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Coach Profile
Tyrone Willingham
1995-2008 • Notre Dame, Stanford, Washington
3 schools coached, anchored by Stanford.
Tyrone Willingham coached 14 seasons, won 46.4%, and posted an average SRS of 3.8. Best season: 2002 Notre Dame. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 76-88-1
- Career win rate
- 46.4%
- Average SRS
- 3.8
- Peak SRS
- 11.7
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
- 14
- Career span
- 14 years
- Best finish
- #16
- Consistency
- 49.5
Primary school anchor
Stanford
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 65.6.
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.
Tyrone Willingham
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tyrone Willingham: 2002 Notre DameTyrone Willingham: 2005 Washington
1995Actual season year • SRS range -14.9 to 11.72008
Active comparison point
Tyrone Willingham • 2002
2002 Notre Dame
Best seasonNew stop: Notre Dame10-3 • SRS 11.7 • SP Overall 17.1
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+0.1
SP Off / Def
31.1 / 15.1
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
5-17
- Games
- 22
- Win rate
- 22.7%
Top 5
2-11
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 15.4%
View ranked game results54
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Washington
2005-2008 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -1.9 • Win % 22.9%
Notre Dame
2002-2004 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 7.6 • Win % 58.3%
Stanford
1995-2001 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 5.3 • Win % 54.9%
- Longest tenure
- Stanford • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 7.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Notre Dame • 58.3%
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.
Tyrone Willingham sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTyrone Willingham sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tyrone Willingham
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.8
- Percentile
- 75th pct
Strong
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.
Washington
2005-2008 • 11-37
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.9Win % 22.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.8 during vs 6.6 baseline
-3.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.9 during vs 5.8 baseline
-7.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.5 during vs 7.8 baseline
-11.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Notre Dame
2002-2004 • 21-15
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.6Win % 58.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 7.0 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.6 during vs 9.2 baseline
-1.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.8 during vs 12.8 baseline
+1.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
-6.7%
Stanford
1995-2001 • 44-36-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.3Win % 54.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 6.0 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 9.1 baseline
-3.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
7.6 during vs 11.2 baseline
-3.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
14.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
-25.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Notre Dame 2002
10-3 • SRS 11.7
Biggest Improvement
Stanford 1999
8-4 • 11.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Stanford 2001
9-3 • SP Off 44.5
Best Defensive Season
Notre Dame 2002
10-3 • SP Def 15.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Washington 2008
0-12 • SRS -14.9
Biggest Drop
Washington 2008
0-12 • -20.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Washington | 2008 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -14.9 | -21.3 | 17.4 | 36.3 | -20.3 | -30.8% |
| Washington | 2007 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 30.8% | — | — | 5.4 | 5.2 | 33.0 | 28.0 | +2.4 | -10.9% |
| Washington | 2006 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.0 | 0.3 | 23.3 | 24.1 | +3.9 | +23.5% |
| Washington | 2005 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -0.9 | 1.9 | 29.3 | 27.5 | -10.2 | -36.4% |
| Notre Dame | 2004 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 9.3 | 12.6 | 34.9 | 23.7 | +7.4 | +12.9% |
| Notre Dame | 2003 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #20 | — | 1.9 | 11.8 | 33.3 | 23.1 | -9.8 | -35.3% |
| Notre Dame | 2002 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #17 | 11.7 | 17.1 | 31.1 | 15.1 | +0.1 | +1.9% |
| Stanford | 2001 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #16 | 11.6 | 15.7 | 44.5 | 32.6 | +5.6 | +29.5% |
| Stanford | 2000 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 6.0 | 9.2 | 34.6 | 27.3 | -1.1 | -21.2% |
| Stanford | 1999 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 7.1 | 10.7 | 43.6 | 35.3 | +11.7 | +39.4% |
| Stanford | 1998 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -4.6 | -5.1 | 32.4 | 36.7 | -8.8 | -18.2% |
| Stanford | 1997 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | #18 | — | 4.2 | 6.2 | 35.4 | 31.2 | -3.0 | -12.9% |
| Stanford | 1996 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 7.2 | 8.6 | 27.8 | 19.8 | +1.6 | -4.2% |
| Stanford | 1995 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | — | — | 5.6 | 8.2 | 36.5 | 30.1 | — | — |
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