Top 25
0-7-3
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 15.0%
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Jack Meagher
1929-1944 • Auburn, Iowa Pre-Flight, Rice
3 schools coached, anchored by Auburn.
Jack Meagher's coaching record is 84-64-10, highlighted by seasons at Auburn from 1929 to 1944.
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.
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
- 84-64-10
- Auburn record
- 48-37-10
- Full-season record
- 84-64-10
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Georgia
- 5-3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
158 countable games, 56.3% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Auburn.
15 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry games in this dataset.
1 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 25, 1944. 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.
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 Meagher • 1944
1944 Iowa Pre-Flight
Best seasonNew stop: Iowa Pre-Flight10-1 • SRS 29.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.9%
YoY SRS
+14.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
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.
Top 10
0-4-2
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 16.7%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results10
| 1944 Regular Week 4 | Iowa Pre-Flight | Michigan | #10 | L7-12 |
| 1942 Regular Week 3 | Auburn | Georgia Tech | #5 | L0-15 |
| 1941 Regular Week 7 | Auburn | Georgia | #20 | L0-7 |
| 1940 Regular Week 6 | Auburn | SMU | #18 | L13-20 |
| 1940 Regular Week 5 | Auburn | Mississippi State | #15 | T7-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 8 | Auburn | Boston College | #14 | L7-13 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Auburn | Tulane | #7 | L0-12 |
| 1938 Regular Week 4 | Auburn | Tennessee | #4 | L0-7 |
| 1937 Regular Week 4 | Auburn | Villanova | #9 | T0-0 |
| 1936 Regular Week 3 | Auburn | Tulane | #10 | T0-0 |
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
1944-1944 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 29.3 • Win % 90.9%
Auburn
1934-1942 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 10.7 • Win % 55.8%
Rice
1929-1933 • 5 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 edgeNot 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
1944-1944 • 10-1
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
1934-1942 • 48-37-10
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
1929-1933 • 26-26
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
10-1 • SRS 29.3
Biggest Improvement
Auburn 1935
8-2 • 16.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Rice 1929
2-7 • SRS -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-Flight | 1944 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #6 | 29.3 | — | — | — | +14.2 | +31.8% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1942 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | #16 | 15.1 | — | — | — | +8.7 | +14.1% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1941 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 6.4 | — | — | — | -2.0 | -14.1% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1940 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 8.4 | — | — | — | -3.9 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1939 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 12.3 | — | — | — | +6.8 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1938 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | -11.9 | -23.2% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1937 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 68.2% | — | — | 17.4 | — | — | — | +4.1 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1936 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 72.7% | — | — | 13.3 | — | — | — | -4.0 | -7.3% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1935 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 17.3 | — | — | — | +16.8 | +60.0% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1934 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | 0.5 | — | — | — | +3.5 | -7.3% | Season summary |
| Rice | 1933 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -3.0 | — | — | — | -12.0 | -42.7% | Season summary |
| Rice | 1932 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 9.0 | — | — | — | +6.5 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Rice | 1931 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 2.5 | — | — | — | +0.5 | -6.7% | Season summary |
| Rice | 1930 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 2.0 | — | — | — | +7.4 | +44.4% | Season summary |
| Rice | 1929 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -5.4 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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