Sam Houston
2024-2024 • 1-0
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -6.2Win % 100.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Defense-FirstDefense-First
Coach Profile
Brad Cornelsen
College football coaching record, Sam Houston years & career stats
2024-2024 • Sam Houston
One defining program at Sam Houston.
Brad Cornelsen's coaching record is 1-0, highlighted by seasons at Sam Houston from 2024 to 2024.
Brad Cornelsen coached 1 seasons, won 100.0%, and posted an average SRS of -6.2. Best season: 2024 Sam Houston. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 1-0
- Career win rate
- 100.0%
- Average SRS
- -6.2
- Peak SRS
- -6.2
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
- 1
- Career span
- 1 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- —
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
- 1-0
- Sam Houston record
- 1-0
- Full-season record
- 0-0
- Partial-season record
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
1 countable games, 100.0% win rate.
1 countable seasons at Sam Houston.
0 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.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
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.
Career Résumé
Brad Cornelsen season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 1
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 1
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
100% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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 20, 2024. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Brad Cornelsen
Who is Brad Cornelsen?
Brad Cornelsen is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Sam Houston, with a 1-0 career record from 2024 across 1 countable season.
What is Brad Cornelsen's college football coaching record?
Brad Cornelsen's college football coaching record is 1-0 across 1 countable season, anchored by Sam Houston.
Which schools did Brad Cornelsen coach?
Brad Cornelsen coached at Sam Houston in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Brad Cornelsen have?
Brad Cornelsen had 1 winning season across 1 countable season row in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Brad Cornelsen have?
Brad Cornelsen had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Brad Cornelsen have?
Brad Cornelsen recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Brad Cornelsen coach at Sam Houston?
Brad Cornelsen's Sam Houston head coach years were 2024, covering 1 countable season with a 1-0 record.
How did Brad Cornelsen do against ranked opponents?
Brad Cornelsen's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.
How does CFBTrack count Brad Cornelsen's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Brad Cornelsen 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Brad Cornelsen
EliteStrongAverageLean
2023Actual season year • SRS range -7.2 to -5.22025
Active comparison point
Brad Cornelsen • 2024
2024 Sam Houston
Best seasonWorst season1-0 • SRS -6.2 • SP Overall -6.9
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
19.0 / 23.8
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Sam Houston • 1 seasons
- Best tenure
- Sam Houston • -6.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Sam Houston • 100.0%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Brad Cornelsen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Brad Cornelsen
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.9
- Percentile
- 36th pct
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Brad Cornelsen coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Sam Houston 2024
1-0 • SRS -6.2
Biggest Improvement
Unavailable
Best Offensive Season
Sam Houston 2024
1-0 • SP Off 19.0
Best Defensive Season
Sam Houston 2024
1-0 • SP Def 23.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Sam Houston 2024
1-0 • SRS -6.2
Biggest Drop
Unavailable
Brad Cornelsen coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| Sam HoustonBest | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | -6.2 | -6.9 | 19.0 | 23.8 | — | — | Partial |
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