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Coach Profile

Jay Sawvel

2024-2025 • Wyoming

One defining program at Wyoming.

Jay Sawvel coached 2 seasons, won 29.2%, and posted an average SRS of -11.4. Best season: 2025 Wyoming. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 7-17
Career win rate: 29.2%
Average SRS: -11.4
Peak SRS: -10.7

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: 2
Career span: 2 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: —

Primary school anchor

Wyoming

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 14.6.

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

Compare Jay Sawvel

Overall record: 7-17
Wyoming record: 7-17
Full-season record: 3-9
Vs AP Top 25: 0-2
Vs AP Top 10: 0-0
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Vs Colorado State: 1-1
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
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 30, 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.

Jay Sawvel

EliteStrongAverageLean

2024Actual season year • SRS range -12.1 to -10.72025

Active comparison point

Jay Sawvel • 2025

Selected

2025 Wyoming

Best seasonBiggest improvementBiggest drop

4-8 • SRS -10.7 • SP Overall -11.3

Win %

33.3%

YoY SRS

+1.4

SP Off / Def

15.3 / 24.7

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.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-2

Games: 2
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

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2025 Regular Week 3	Wyoming	Utah	#20	L6-31
2024 Regular Week 13	Wyoming	Boise State	#12	L13-17

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Wyoming

2024-2025 • 2 seasons

Avg SRS -11.4 • Win % 29.2%

Longest tenure: Wyoming • 2 seasons
Best tenure: Wyoming • -11.4 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Wyoming • 29.2%

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.

Jay Sawvel sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Jay Sawvel sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Jay Sawvel

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -12.4
Percentile: 21th 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.

Wyoming

2024-2025 • 7-17

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

Avg SRS -11.4Win % 29.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

3.5 during vs 6.6 baseline

-3.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-11.4 during vs -1.9 baseline

-9.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-12.4 during vs -3.5 baseline

-9.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Wyoming 2025

4-8 • SRS -10.7

Biggest Improvement

Wyoming 2025

4-8 • 1.4 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Wyoming 2024

3-9 • SP Off 16.3

Best Defensive Season

Wyoming 2025

4-8 • SP Def 24.7

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Wyoming 2024

3-9 • SRS -12.1

Biggest Drop

Wyoming 2025

4-8 • 1.4 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Wyoming	2025	12	4	8	0	33.3%	—	—	-10.7	-11.3	15.3	24.7	+1.4	+8.3%	Completed-game fallback
Wyoming	2024	12	3	9	0	25.0%	—	—	-12.1	-13.6	16.3	30.8	—	—	Season summary

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