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Jack Meagher

1929-1944Auburn, Iowa Pre-Flight, Rice

3 schools coached, anchored by Auburn.

Jack Meagher coached 15 seasons, won 56.3%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1944 Iowa Pre-Flight. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
84-64-10
Career win rate
56.3%
Average SRS
8.7
Peak SRS
29.3

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
15
Career span
16 years
Best finish
#6
Consistency
23.2

Primary school anchor

Auburn

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 96.3.

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.

Jack Meagher
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Jack Meagher: 1934 AuburnJack Meagher: 1944 Iowa Pre-Flight
1929Actual season year • SRS range -5.4 to 29.31944

Active comparison point

Jack Meagher1944

Selected

1944 Iowa Pre-Flight

Best seasonNew stop: Iowa Pre-Flight

10-1 • SRS 29.3 • SP Overall

Win %

90.9%

YoY SRS

+14.2

SP Off / Def

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Finish

#6

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
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-7-3

Games
10
Win rate
15.0%

Top 10

0-4-2

Games
6
Win rate
16.7%

Top 5

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%
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1944 Regular Week 4Iowa Pre-FlightMichigan#10L7-12
1942 Regular Week 3AuburnGeorgia Tech#5L0-15
1941 Regular Week 7AuburnGeorgia#20L0-7
1940 Regular Week 6AuburnSMU#18L13-20
1940 Regular Week 5AuburnMississippi State#15T7-7
1939 Regular Week 8AuburnBoston College#14L7-13
1939 Regular Week 4AuburnTulane#7L0-12
1938 Regular Week 4AuburnTennessee#4L0-7
1937 Regular Week 4AuburnVillanova#9T0-0
1936 Regular Week 3AuburnTulane#10T0-0

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Iowa Pre-Flight

1944-19441 seasons

Avg SRS 29.3 • Win % 90.9%

Auburn

1934-19429 seasons

Avg SRS 10.7 • Win % 55.8%

Rice

1929-19335 seasons

Avg SRS 1.0 • Win % 50.0%

Longest tenure
Auburn • 9 seasons
Best tenure
Iowa Pre-Flight • 29.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Iowa Pre-Flight • 90.9%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Jack Meagher

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.

Iowa Pre-Flight

1944-194410-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 29.3Win % 90.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Auburn

1934-194248-37-10

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

Avg SRS 10.7Win % 55.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.3 during vs 4.6 baseline

+0.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

10.7 during vs -0.2 baseline

+10.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

11.1% during vs 0.0% baseline

+11.1%

Rice

1929-193326-26

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

Avg SRS 1.0Win % 50.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.2 during vs 3.2 baseline

+2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

1.0 during vs -5.5 baseline

+6.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Iowa Pre-Flight 1944

10-1SRS 29.3

Biggest Improvement

Auburn 1935

8-216.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

Rice 1929

2-7SRS -5.4

Biggest Drop

Rice 1933

3-8-12.0 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Iowa Pre-Flight194411101090.9%#629.3+14.2+31.8%
Auburn19421164159.1%#1615.1+8.7+14.1%
Auburn19411045145.0%6.4-2.0-14.1%
Auburn19401164159.1%8.4-3.9+9.1%
Auburn19391155150.0%12.3+6.8+5.0%
Auburn19381045145.0%5.5-11.9-23.2%
Auburn19371162368.2%17.4+4.1-4.5%
Auburn19361172272.7%13.3-4.0-7.3%
Auburn19351082080.0%17.3+16.8+60.0%
Auburn19341028020.0%0.5+3.5-7.3%
Rice19331138027.3%-3.0-12.0-42.7%
Rice19321073070.0%9.0+6.5+10.0%
Rice19311064060.0%2.5+0.5-6.7%
Rice19301284066.7%2.0+7.4+44.4%
Rice1929927022.2%-5.4

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