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Coach Profile

Bill Battle

1970-1976 • Tennessee

One defining program at Tennessee.

Bill Battle coached 7 seasons, won 72.3%, and posted an average SRS of 16.4. Best season: 1970 Tennessee. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 59-22-2
Career win rate: 72.3%
Average SRS: 16.4
Peak SRS: 28.3

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: 7
Career span: 7 years
Best finish: #4
Consistency: 45.0

Primary school anchor

Tennessee

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 95.7.

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.

Bill Battle

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1970Actual season year • SRS range 9.3 to 28.31976

Active comparison point

Bill Battle • 1970

Selected

1970 Tennessee

Best season

11-1 • SRS 28.3 • SP Overall 30.1

Win %

91.7%

YoY SRS

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SP Off / Def

39.2 / 9.0

Finish

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.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

8-11-1

Games: 20
Win rate: 42.5%

Top 10

2-7

Games: 9
Win rate: 22.2%

Top 5

1-5

Games: 6
Win rate: 16.7%

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1976 Regular Week 8	Tennessee	Florida	#12	L18-20
1976 Regular Week 7	Tennessee	Alabama	#18	L13-20
1975 Regular Week 7	Tennessee	Alabama	#6	L7-30
1975 Regular Week 3	Tennessee	UCLA	#12	L28-34
1975 Regular Week 2	Tennessee	Maryland	#14	W26-8
1974 Regular Week 7	Tennessee	Alabama	#4	L6-28
1974 Regular Week 1	Tennessee	UCLA	#12	T17-17
1974 Postseason Week 1	Tennessee	Maryland	#13	W7-3
1973 Regular Week 8	Tennessee	Alabama	#2	L21-42
1973 Regular Week 6	Tennessee	Kansas	#19	W28-27
1973 Postseason Week 1	Tennessee	Texas Tech	#11	L19-28
1972 Regular Week 7	Tennessee	Alabama	#3	L10-17
1972 Regular Week 2	Tennessee	Penn State	#6	W28-21
1972 Postseason Week 1	Tennessee	LSU	#11	W24-17
1971 Regular Week 13	Tennessee	Penn State	#5	W31-11
1971 Regular Week 6	Tennessee	Alabama	#4	L15-32
1971 Regular Week 3	Tennessee	Auburn	#5	L9-10
1971 Postseason Week 1	Tennessee	Arkansas	#16	W14-13
1970 Regular Week 5	Tennessee	Auburn	#9	L23-36
1970 Postseason Week 1	Tennessee	Air Force	#16	W34-13

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Tennessee

1970-1976 • 7 seasons

Avg SRS 16.4 • Win % 72.3%

Longest tenure: Tennessee • 7 seasons
Best tenure: Tennessee • 16.4 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Tennessee • 72.3%

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.

Bill Battle sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Bill Battle sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Bill Battle

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Raw avg SP Overall: 16.6
Percentile: 95th pct

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.

Tennessee

1970-1976 • 59-22-2

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 16.4Win % 72.3%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.4 during vs 8.4 baseline

+0.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

16.4 during vs 20.5 baseline

-4.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

16.6 during vs — baseline

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Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

71.4% during vs 80.0% baseline

-8.6%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Tennessee 1970

11-1 • SRS 28.3

Biggest Improvement

Tennessee 1972

10-2 • 6.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Tennessee 1970

11-1 • SP Off 39.2

Best Defensive Season

Tennessee 1972

10-2 • SP Def 6.9

Setbacks

Worst Season

Tennessee 1975

7-5 • SRS 9.3

Biggest Drop

Tennessee 1973

8-4 • -14.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.


Tennessee	1976	11	6	5	0	54.5%	—	—	11.3	5.4	24.0	19.4	+2.0	-3.8%
Tennessee	1975	12	7	5	0	58.3%	#18	—	9.3	10.5	27.1	17.5	-4.0	-8.3%
Tennessee	1974	12	7	3	2	66.7%	#16	#20	13.3	19.5	28.7	10.1	+3.4	0.0%
Tennessee	1973	12	8	4	0	66.7%	#9	#19	9.9	7.5	30.3	24.5	-14.8	-16.7%
Tennessee	1972	12	10	2	0	83.3%	#15	#8	24.7	25.2	31.5	6.9	+6.8	0.0%
Tennessee	1971	12	10	2	0	83.3%	#8	#9	17.9	18.1	27.8	10.8	-10.4	-8.3%
Tennessee	1970	12	11	1	0	91.7%	—	#4	28.3	30.1	39.2	9.0	—	—