Top 25
1-16
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 5.9%
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Coach Profile
Tom Holmoe
1997-2001 • California
One defining program at California.
Tom Holmoe's coaching record is 16-39, highlighted by seasons at California from 1997 to 2001.
Tom Holmoe coached 5 seasons, won 29.1%, and posted an average SRS of -2.1. Best season: 2000 California. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 16-39
- Career win rate
- 29.1%
- Average SRS
- -2.1
- Peak SRS
- 3.9
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
- 63.5
Primary school anchor
California
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 44.1.
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
- 16-39
- California record
- 16-39
- Full-season record
- 16-39
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-8
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Stanford
- 0-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
55 countable games, 29.1% win rate.
5 countable seasons at California.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Big Game games in this dataset.
0 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: Nov 23, 2001. 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.
Tom Holmoe
EliteStrongAverageLean
1997Actual season year • SRS range -12.7 to 3.92001
Active comparison point
Tom Holmoe • 2000
2000 California
Best seasonBiggest improvement3-8 • SRS 3.9 • SP Overall 5.0
Win %
27.3%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
32.0 / 28.4
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
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results17
| 2001 Regular Week 13 | California | Stanford | #13 | L28-35 |
| 2001 Regular Week 8 | California | Oregon | #5 | L7-48 |
| 2001 Regular Week 6 | California | Washington | #13 | L28-31 |
| 2000 Regular Week 12 | California | Oregon | #6 | L17-25 |
| 2000 Regular Week 11 | California | Oregon State | #14 | L32-38 |
| 2000 Regular Week 9 | California | Washington | #9 | L24-36 |
| 2000 Regular Week 8 | California | UCLA | #13 | W46-38 |
| 2000 Regular Week 4 | California | Illinois | #19 | L15-17 |
| 1999 Regular Week 7 | California | BYU | #24 | L28-38 |
| 1999 Regular Week 3 | California | Nebraska | #5 | L0-45 |
| 1998 Regular Week 12 | California | Arizona | #8 | L23-27 |
| 1998 Regular Week 9 | California | UCLA | #2 | L16-28 |
| 1998 Regular Week 3 | California | Nebraska | #3 | L3-24 |
| 1997 Regular Week 12 | California | Arizona State | #15 | L21-28 |
| 1997 Regular Week 10 | California | UCLA | #13 | L17-35 |
| 1997 Regular Week 9 | California | Washington State | #13 | L37-63 |
| 1997 Regular Week 8 | California | Washington | #10 | L3-30 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
California
1997-2001 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -2.1 • Win % 29.1%
- Longest tenure
- California • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- California • -2.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- California • 29.1%
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.
Tom Holmoe sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTom Holmoe sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Holmoe
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -1.4
- Percentile
- 52th pct
Mixed
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.
California
1997-2001 • 16-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.1Win % 29.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.2 during vs 5.2 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.1 during vs 3.6 baseline
-5.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-1.4 during vs 3.0 baseline
-4.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
California 2000
3-8 • SRS 3.9
Biggest Improvement
California 2000
3-8 • 6.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
California 1997
3-8 • SP Off 35.9
Best Defensive Season
California 1999
4-7 • SP Def 24.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
California 2001
1-10 • SRS -12.7
Biggest Drop
California 2001
1-10 • -16.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| California | 2001 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -12.7 | -10.4 | 30.5 | 38.8 | -16.6 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| California | 2000 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 3.9 | 5.0 | 32.0 | 28.4 | +6.8 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| California | 1999 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -2.9 | -1.4 | 23.3 | 24.7 | -1.6 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| California | 1998 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -1.3 | -2.5 | 22.6 | 25.2 | -3.7 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| California | 1997 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 2.4 | 2.4 | 35.9 | 34.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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