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Jack Murphy

1971-1976 • Toledo

One defining program at Toledo.

Jack Murphy coached 6 seasons, won 52.2%, and posted an average SRS of -6.3. Best season: 1971 Toledo. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 35-32
Career win rate: 52.2%
Average SRS: -6.3
Peak SRS: 14.7

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: 6
Career span: 6 years
Best finish: #14
Consistency: 13.8

Primary school anchor

Toledo

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.8.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Jack Murphy

Overall record: 35-32
Toledo record: 35-32
Full-season record: 35-32
Vs AP Top 25: 0-3
Vs AP Top 10: 0-0
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Vs Bowling Green: 2-4
Postseason / bowl record: 1-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

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 20, 1976. 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 Murphy

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1971Actual season year • SRS range -14.0 to 14.71976

Active comparison point

Jack Murphy • 1971

Selected

1971 Toledo

Best season

12-0 • SRS 14.7 • SP Overall 21.2

Win %

100.0%

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

33.8 / 13.5

Finish

#14

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

0-3

Games: 3
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

View ranked game results3


1975 Regular Week 9	Toledo	Miami (OH)	#19	L21-35
1974 Regular Week 8	Toledo	Miami (OH)	#19	L22-38
1973 Regular Week 9	Toledo	Miami (OH)	#16	L0-16

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Toledo

1971-1976 • 6 seasons

Avg SRS -6.3 • Win % 52.2%

Longest tenure: Toledo • 6 seasons
Best tenure: Toledo • -6.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Toledo • 52.2%

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.

Jack Murphy sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Jack Murphy sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Jack Murphy

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall: -0.1
Percentile: 56th 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.

Toledo

1971-1976 • 35-32

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

Avg SRS -6.3Win % 52.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.8 during vs 7.8 baseline

-2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-6.3 during vs 3.4 baseline

-9.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-0.1 during vs 21.9 baseline

-22.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

16.7% during vs 20.0% baseline

-3.3%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Toledo 1971

12-0 • SRS 14.7

Biggest Improvement

Toledo 1974

6-5 • 6.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Toledo 1971

12-0 • SP Off 33.8

Best Defensive Season

Toledo 1971

12-0 • SP Def 13.5

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Toledo 1976

3-8 • SRS -14.0

Biggest Drop

Toledo 1972

6-5 • -28.1 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Toledo	1976	11	3	8	27.3%	—	—	-14.0	-7.6	18.9	26.3	-7.2	-18.2%	Season summary
Toledo	1975	11	5	6	45.5%	—	—	-6.8	0.7	28.5	28.1	-0.9	-9.1%	Season summary
Toledo	1974	11	6	5	54.5%	—	—	-5.9	-3.1	28.8	32.1	+6.5	+27.3%	Season summary
Toledo	1973	11	3	8	27.3%	—	—	-12.4	-6.3	26.3	32.1	+1.0	-27.3%	Season summary
Toledo	1972	11	6	5	54.5%	—	—	-13.4	-5.7	20.7	26.6	-28.1	-45.5%	Season summary
Toledo	1971	12	12	0	100.0%	—	#14	14.7	21.2	33.8	13.5	—	—	Season summary

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