Top 25
10-6
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 62.5%
Coach Profile
2013-2016 • Oregon
One defining program at Oregon.
Mark Helfrich coached 4 seasons, won 69.8%, and posted an average SRS of 17.1. Best season: 2014 Oregon. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Oregon
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 94.7.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
53 countable games, 69.8% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Oregon.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
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4 scored postseason games in this dataset.
2 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
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: Nov 26, 2016. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Active comparison point
13-2 • SRS 27.1 • SP Overall 24.7
Win %
86.7%
YoY SRS
+0.4
SP Off / Def
48.1 / 23.2
Finish
#2
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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 25
10-6
Top 10
4-5
Top 5
1-3
| 2016 Regular Week 12 | Oregon | Utah | #11 | W30-28 |
| 2016 Regular Week 6 | Oregon | Washington | #5 | L21-70 |
| 2015 Regular Week 12 | Oregon | USC | #22 | W48-28 |
| 2015 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Stanford | #7 | W38-36 |
| 2015 Regular Week 4 | Oregon | Utah | #18 | L20-62 |
| 2015 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | Michigan State | #5 | L28-31 |
| 2015 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | TCU | #7 | L41-47 |
| 2014 Regular Week 15 | Oregon | Arizona | #8 | W51-13 |
| 2014 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Utah | #20 | W51-27 |
| 2014 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | UCLA | #18 | W42-30 |
| 2014 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | Michigan State | #7 | W46-27 |
| 2014 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Ohio State | #1 | L20-42 |
| 2014 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Florida State | #5 | W59-20 |
| 2013 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Stanford | #6 | L20-26 |
| 2013 Regular Week 9 | Oregon | UCLA | #12 | W42-14 |
| 2013 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Washington | #16 | W45-24 |
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Oregon
2013-2016 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 17.1 • Win % 69.8%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Mark Helfrich sets the reference point in overall strength.
Mark Helfrich sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mark Helfrich
Elite
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
2013-2016 • 37-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 11.2 baseline
-1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
17.1 during vs 22.9 baseline
-5.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.9 during vs 24.9 baseline
-6.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
75.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-25.0%
High Points
Best Season
Oregon 2014
13-2 • SRS 27.1
Biggest Improvement
Oregon 2014
13-2 • 0.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oregon 2014
13-2 • SP Off 48.1
Best Defensive Season
Oregon 2013
11-2 • SP Def 18.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Oregon 2016
4-8 • SRS 2.2
Biggest Drop
Oregon 2015
9-4 • -14.8 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Oregon | 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | #24 | — | 2.2 | 6.1 | 42.5 | 36.1 | -10.1 | -35.9% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2015 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #7 | #19 | 12.3 | 15.9 | 46.7 | 30.4 | -14.8 | -17.4% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2014 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 86.7% | #3 | #2 | 27.1 | 24.7 | 48.1 | 23.2 | +0.4 | +2.1% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2013 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #3 | #9 | 26.7 | 28.7 | 46.8 | 18.1 | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.5
Avg SRS 15.6 • Peak SRS 25.9 • 3 seasons
Best finish #14 • Volatility 9.5
Open profile →avg SRS within 0.5 • volatility within 1.1
Avg SRS 17.6 • Peak SRS 24.9 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 9.4
Open profile →volatility within 1.7 • career span within 0 years
Avg SRS 14.5 • Peak SRS 27.3 • 4 seasons
Best finish #10 • Volatility 8.8
Open profile →avg SRS within 0.7 • volatility within 1.9
Avg SRS 16.4 • Peak SRS 28.2 • 8 seasons
Best finish #1 • Volatility 8.6
Open profile →same offense-first identity • career span within 2 years
Avg SRS 13.7 • Peak SRS 22.4 • 6 seasons
Best finish #16 • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.3
Avg SRS 15.8 • Peak SRS 22.7 • 9 seasons
Best finish #3 • Volatility 5.1
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