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- Win rate
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Jay Hopson
2016-2020 • Southern Miss
One defining program at Southern Miss.
Jay Hopson's coaching record is 28-23, highlighted by seasons at Southern Miss from 2016 to 2020.
Jay Hopson coached 5 seasons, won 54.9%, and posted an average SRS of -9.0. Best season: 2019 Southern Miss. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 28-23
- Career win rate
- 54.9%
- Average SRS
- -9.0
- Peak SRS
- -4.9
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
- 89.6
Primary school anchor
Southern Miss
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 23.9.
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
- 28-23
- Southern Miss record
- 28-23
- Full-season record
- 28-22
- Partial-season record
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
51 countable games, 54.9% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Southern Miss.
4 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.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 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: Dec 10, 2020. 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.
Jay Hopson
EliteStrongAverageLean
2016Actual season year • SRS range -15.0 to -4.92020
Active comparison point
Jay Hopson • 2019
2019 Southern Miss
Best season7-6 • SRS -4.9 • SP Overall -4.8
Win %
53.8%
YoY SRS
+1.9
SP Off / Def
23.6 / 27.7
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
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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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
2016-2020 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -9.0 • Win % 54.9%
- Longest tenure
- Southern Miss • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Southern Miss • -9.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Southern Miss • 54.9%
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.
Jay Hopson sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJay Hopson sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jay Hopson
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -4.1
- Percentile
- 44th 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.
Southern Miss
2016-2020 • 28-23
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -9.0Win % 54.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.5 during vs -10.6 baseline
+3.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.1 during vs -9.1 baseline
+6.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Southern Miss 2019
7-6 • SRS -4.9
Biggest Improvement
Southern Miss 2018
6-5 • 2.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Southern Miss 2016
7-6 • SP Off 29.1
Best Defensive Season
Southern Miss 2018
6-5 • SP Def 21.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Southern Miss 2020
0-1 • SRS -15.0
Biggest Drop
Southern Miss 2020
0-1 • -10.1 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 | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -15.0 | -7.9 | 24.2 | 32.1 | -10.1 | -53.8% | Partial season |
| Southern Miss | 2019 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -4.9 | -4.8 | 23.6 | 27.7 | +1.9 | -0.7% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 2018 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -6.8 | -5.0 | 16.6 | 21.4 | +2.9 | -7.0% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 2017 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -9.7 | -3.4 | 24.9 | 28.3 | -0.9 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Southern Miss | 2016 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -8.8 | 0.7 | 29.1 | 29.6 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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