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Jim Carmody
1982-1987 • Southern Miss
One defining program at Southern Miss.
Jim Carmody's coaching record is 37-29, highlighted by seasons at Southern Miss from 1982 to 1987.
Jim Carmody coached 6 seasons, won 56.1%, and posted an average SRS of 3.4. Best season: 1982 Southern Miss. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 37-29
- Career win rate
- 56.1%
- Average SRS
- 3.4
- Peak SRS
- 14.7
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 31.7
Primary school anchor
Southern Miss
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.8.
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
- 37-29
- Southern Miss record
- 37-29
- Full-season record
- 37-29
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Memphis
- 5-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
66 countable games, 56.1% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Southern Miss.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Black and Blue Bowl 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 28, 1987. 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.
Jim Carmody
EliteStrongAverageLean
1982Actual season year • SRS range -7.0 to 14.71987
Active comparison point
Jim Carmody • 1982
1982 Southern Miss
Best season7-4 • SRS 14.7 • SP Overall 16.1
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
33.6 / 19.0
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
| 1987 Regular Week 7 | Southern Miss | Florida State | #4 | L10-61 |
| 1987 Regular Week 5 | Southern Miss | Texas A&M | #15 | L14-27 |
| 1987 Regular Week 2 | Southern Miss | Alabama | #19 | L6-38 |
| 1986 Regular Week 5 | Southern Miss | Texas A&M | #14 | L7-16 |
| 1986 Regular Week 3 | Southern Miss | Alabama | #4 | L17-31 |
| 1985 Regular Week 12 | Southern Miss | Alabama | #20 | L13-24 |
| 1985 Regular Week 3 | Southern Miss | Auburn | #1 | L18-29 |
| 1984 Regular Week 5 | Southern Miss | Auburn | #20 | L12-35 |
| 1983 Regular Week 13 | Southern Miss | East Carolina | #20 | L6-10 |
| 1983 Regular Week 12 | Southern Miss | Alabama | #16 | L16-28 |
| 1983 Regular Week 3 | Southern Miss | Auburn | #5 | L3-24 |
| 1982 Regular Week 11 | Southern Miss | Alabama | #17 | W38-29 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Southern Miss
1982-1987 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 3.4 • Win % 56.1%
- Longest tenure
- Southern Miss • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Southern Miss • 3.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Southern Miss • 56.1%
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.
Jim Carmody sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Carmody sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Carmody
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.0
- Percentile
- 56th pct
Above average
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.
Southern Miss
1982-1987 • 37-29
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.4Win % 56.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 7.4 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 7.4 baseline
-4.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-0.0 during vs 12.9 baseline
-12.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Southern Miss 1982
7-4 • SRS 14.7
Biggest Improvement
Southern Miss 1985
7-4 • 9.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Southern Miss 1982
7-4 • SP Off 33.6
Best Defensive Season
Southern Miss 1983
7-4 • SP Def 14.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Southern Miss 1986
6-5 • SRS -7.0
Biggest Drop
Southern Miss 1984
4-7 • -15.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Southern Miss | 1987 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.1 | -0.6 | 32.6 | 33.5 | +6.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 1986 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -7.0 | -10.2 | 19.7 | 29.0 | -12.3 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 1985 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 5.3 | -1.2 | 24.0 | 25.4 | +9.6 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 1984 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -4.3 | -14.3 | 18.8 | 31.8 | -15.9 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 1983 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 11.6 | 10.1 | 23.8 | 14.3 | -3.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 1982 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 14.7 | 16.1 | 33.6 | 19.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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