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Carmen Cozza
1965-1981 • Yale
One defining program at Yale.
Carmen Cozza's coaching record is 114-38-3, highlighted by seasons at Yale from 1965 to 1981.
Carmen Cozza coached 17 seasons, won 74.5%, and posted an average SRS of -6.0. Best season: 1976 Yale. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 114-38-3
- Career win rate
- 74.5%
- Average SRS
- -6.0
- Peak SRS
- 5.2
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
- 17
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 38.7
Primary school anchor
Yale
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 47.8.
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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.
- Overall record
- 114-38-3
- Yale record
- 114-38-3
- Full-season record
- 114-38-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
155 countable games, 74.5% win rate.
17 countable seasons at Yale.
17 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 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 21, 1981. 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.
Carmen Cozza
EliteStrongAverageLean
1965Actual season year • SRS range -23.5 to 5.21981
Active comparison point
Carmen Cozza • 1976
1976 Yale
Best season8-1 • SRS 5.2 • SP Overall 15.4
Win %
88.9%
YoY SRS
+13.0
SP Off / Def
25.5 / 10.9
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
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- Win rate
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Top 5
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Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Yale
1965-1981 • 17 seasons
Avg SRS -6.0 • Win % 74.5%
- Longest tenure
- Yale • 17 seasons
- Best tenure
- Yale • -6.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Yale • 74.5%
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.
Carmen Cozza sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeCarmen Cozza sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Carmen Cozza
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.0
- Percentile
- 85th pct
Elite
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.
Yale
1965-1981 • 114-38-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.0Win % 74.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 5.4 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.0 during vs -12.8 baseline
+6.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.0 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Yale 1976
8-1 • SRS 5.2
Biggest Improvement
Yale 1972
7-2 • 28.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Yale 1972
7-2 • SP Off 37.2
Best Defensive Season
Yale 1976
8-1 • SP Def 10.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Yale 1971
4-5 • SRS -23.5
Biggest Drop
Yale 1971
4-5 • -21.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Yale | 1981 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | -3.3 | 12.8 | 32.0 | 19.9 | +3.2 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1980 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | -6.5 | 4.6 | 21.9 | 18.1 | +6.1 | -8.9% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1979 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | -12.6 | 5.3 | 20.8 | 16.7 | -9.1 | +22.2% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1978 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.5 | 9.0 | 24.7 | 16.7 | -7.3 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1977 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 3.8 | 11.1 | 26.3 | 16.0 | -1.4 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1976 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 5.2 | 15.4 | 25.5 | 10.9 | +13.0 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1975 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -7.8 | 7.7 | 23.5 | 16.9 | -1.4 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1974 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | -6.4 | 13.3 | 26.5 | 13.2 | -1.9 | +22.2% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1973 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -4.5 | 13.2 | 29.8 | 17.4 | -9.1 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1972 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 4.6 | 14.1 | 37.2 | 25.0 | +28.1 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1971 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -23.5 | -3.7 | 19.1 | 23.0 | -21.2 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1970 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -2.3 | 17.4 | 30.7 | 14.3 | +9.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1969 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -12.0 | — | — | — | -7.6 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1968 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 94.4% | — | — | -4.4 | — | — | — | -4.4 | +5.6% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1967 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | +14.4 | +44.4% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1966 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -14.4 | — | — | — | +0.2 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Yale | 1965 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -14.6 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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