Top 25
2-4
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 33.3%
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Coach Profile
Buck Shaw
1937-1957 • Air Force, California, Santa Clara
3 schools coached, anchored by Santa Clara.
Buck Shaw coached 9 seasons, won 68.5%, and posted an average SRS of 5.9. Best season: 1940 Santa Clara. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 52-22-7
- Career win rate
- 68.5%
- Average SRS
- 5.9
- Peak SRS
- 16.1
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
- 9
- Career span
- 21 years
- Best finish
- #0
- Consistency
- 8.0
Primary school anchor
Santa Clara
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 76.2.
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.
Buck Shaw
EliteStrongAverageLean
Buck Shaw: 1945 CaliforniaBuck Shaw: 1956 Air Force
1937Actual season year • SRS range -17.8 to 16.11957
Active comparison point
Buck Shaw • 1940
1940 Santa Clara
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-1-1 • SRS 16.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.3%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#11
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
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results6
| 1945 Regular Week 5 | California | Washington | #18 | W27-14 |
| 1945 Regular Week 3 | California | Saint Mary's (CA) | #10 | L13-20 |
| 1942 Regular Week 7 | Santa Clara | UCLA | #11 | L6-14 |
| 1940 Regular Week 5 | Santa Clara | Stanford | #4 | L6-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Santa Clara | Texas A&M | #2 | L3-7 |
| 1937 Postseason Week 1 | Santa Clara | LSU | #8 | W6-0 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Air Force
1956-1957 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -17.8 • Win % 52.6%
California
1945-1945 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -4.6 • Win % 45.0%
Santa Clara
1937-1942 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 11.6 • Win % 78.8%
- Longest tenure
- Santa Clara • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Santa Clara • 11.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Santa Clara • 78.8%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Buck Shaw
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Air Force
1956-1957 • 9-8-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -17.8Win % 52.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
California
1945-1945 • 4-5-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.6Win % 45.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 4.0 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.6 during vs 2.6 baseline
-7.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Santa Clara
1937-1942 • 39-9-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 11.6Win % 78.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Santa Clara 1940
6-1-1 • SRS 16.1
Biggest Improvement
Santa Clara 1940
6-1-1 • 6.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Air Force 1957
3-6-1 • SRS -17.8
Biggest Drop
Santa Clara 1942
7-2 • -8.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Air Force | 1957 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | #0 | #0 | -17.8 | — | — | — | — | -37.2% |
| Air Force | 1956 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | #0 | #0 | — | — | — | — | — | +27.2% |
| California | 1945 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | -4.6 | — | — | — | -8.4 | -32.8% |
| Santa Clara | 1942 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #15 | 3.8 | — | — | — | -8.9 | +11.1% |
| Santa Clara | 1941 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 12.7 | — | — | — | -3.4 | -14.6% |
| Santa Clara | 1940 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 81.3% | — | #11 | 16.1 | — | — | — | +6.8 | +9.0% |
| Santa Clara | 1939 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 72.2% | — | #14 | 9.3 | — | — | — | -3.8 | -2.8% |
| Santa Clara | 1938 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 13.1 | — | — | — | -1.5 | -25.0% |
| Santa Clara | 1937 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #9 | 14.6 | — | — | — | — | — |
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