Top 25
6-21
- Games
- 27
- Win rate
- 22.2%
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Coach Profile
Justin Wilcox
2017-2025 • California
One defining program at California.
Justin Wilcox's coaching record is 49-56, highlighted by seasons at California from 2017 to 2025.
Justin Wilcox coached 9 seasons, won 46.7%, and posted an average SRS of 1.3. Best season: 2023 California. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 49-56
- Career win rate
- 46.7%
- Average SRS
- 1.3
- Peak SRS
- 4.3
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
- 9
- Career span
- 9 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 93.4
Primary school anchor
California
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 45.2.
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
- 49-56
- California record
- 49-56
- Full-season record
- 42-50
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-10
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Stanford
- 5-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-4
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
105 countable games, 46.7% win rate.
9 countable seasons at California.
8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Big Game games in this dataset.
5 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: Dec 25, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Justin Wilcox
EliteStrongAverageLean
2017Actual season year • SRS range -4.1 to 4.32025
Active comparison point
Justin Wilcox • 2023
2023 California
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-7 • SRS 4.3 • SP Overall -0.1
Win %
46.2%
YoY SRS
+5.6
SP Off / Def
30.6 / 28.7
Finish
Unranked
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
1-10
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 9.1%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results27
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
California
2017-2025 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 1.3 • Win % 46.7%
- Longest tenure
- California • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- California • 1.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- California • 46.7%
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.
Justin Wilcox sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJustin Wilcox sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Justin Wilcox
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 0.2
- Percentile
- 57th pct
Above average
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.
California
2017-2025 • 49-56
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 1.3Win % 46.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 4.4 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
1.3 during vs 0.7 baseline
+0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.2 during vs 2.1 baseline
-1.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
California 2023
6-7 • SRS 4.3
Biggest Improvement
California 2023
6-7 • 5.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
California 2023
6-7 • SP Off 30.6
Best Defensive Season
California 2018
7-6 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
California 2025
7-6 • SRS -4.1
Biggest Drop
California 2025
7-6 • -5.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| California | 2025 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -4.1 | -3.2 | 25.6 | 27.9 | -5.9 | +7.7% | Completed-game fallback |
| California | 2024 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 1.8 | 4.0 | 27.4 | 22.9 | -2.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| California | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 4.3 | -0.1 | 30.6 | 28.7 | +5.6 | +12.8% | Season summary |
| California | 2022 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -1.3 | -3.0 | 23.2 | 25.9 | -4.9 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| California | 2021 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.6 | 3.4 | 27.5 | 25.0 | — | +16.7% | Season summary |
| California | 2020 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -36.5% | Season summary |
| California | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 4.2 | -2.6 | 23.8 | 24.7 | +3.9 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| California | 2018 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 0.3 | 3.9 | 18.3 | 15.6 | -1.6 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| California | 2017 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 1.9 | -1.0 | 28.7 | 29.9 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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Open profile →Dave McClain
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.4
Avg SRS 2.8 • Peak SRS 9.2 • 11 seasons
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Open profile →Frank Maloney
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.5
Avg SRS 1.8 • Peak SRS 8.5 • 7 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.3
Open profile →Jeremy Pruitt
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.0
Avg SRS 1.4 • Peak SRS 3.5 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 1.6
Open profile →Donnie Duncan
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.5
Avg SRS 1.9 • Peak SRS 8.3 • 4 seasons
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