Top 25
4-15
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 21.1%
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Karl Dorrell
2003-2022 • Colorado, UCLA
2 schools coached, anchored by UCLA.
Karl Dorrell's coaching record is 43-42, highlighted by seasons at UCLA from 2003 to 2022.
Karl Dorrell coached 8 seasons, won 50.6%, and posted an average SRS of 2.7. Best season: 2004 UCLA. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 43-42
- Career win rate
- 50.6%
- Average SRS
- 2.7
- Peak SRS
- 11.8
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
- 8
- Career span
- 20 years
- Best finish
- #16
- Consistency
- 17.4
Primary school anchor
UCLA
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 66.0.
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
- 43-42
- UCLA record
- 35-27
- Full-season record
- 37-31
- Partial-season record
- 6-11
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-5
- Vs California
- 2-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-4
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
85 countable games, 50.6% win rate.
5 countable seasons at UCLA.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
California-UCLA 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: Nov 26, 2022. 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.
Karl Dorrell
EliteStrongAverageLean
Karl Dorrell: 2020 Colorado
2003Actual season year • SRS range -14.7 to 11.82022
Active comparison point
Karl Dorrell • 2004
2004 UCLA
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-6 • SRS 11.8 • SP Overall 10.0
Win %
50.0%
YoY SRS
+12.5
SP Off / Def
38.5 / 30.4
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
2-9
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 18.2%
Top 5
1-5
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 16.7%
View ranked game results19
| 2021 Regular Week 13 | Colorado | Utah | #16 | L13-28 |
| 2021 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Oregon | #7 | L29-52 |
| 2021 Regular Week 2 | Colorado | Texas A&M | #5 | L7-10 |
| 2020 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Texas | #19 | L23-55 |
| 2006 Regular Week 14 | UCLA | USC | #2 | W13-9 |
| 2006 Regular Week 10 | UCLA | California | #10 | L24-38 |
| 2006 Regular Week 8 | UCLA | Notre Dame | #10 | L17-20 |
| 2006 Regular Week 7 | UCLA | Oregon | #18 | L20-30 |
| 2005 Regular Week 14 | UCLA | USC | #1 | L19-66 |
| 2005 Regular Week 6 | UCLA | California | #10 | W47-40 |
| 2005 Regular Week 3 | UCLA | Oklahoma | #21 | W41-24 |
| 2004 Regular Week 15 | UCLA | USC | #1 | L24-29 |
| 2004 Regular Week 9 | UCLA | Arizona State | #21 | L42-48 |
| 2004 Regular Week 8 | UCLA | California | #8 | L28-45 |
| 2003 Regular Week 14 | UCLA | USC | #2 | L22-47 |
| 2003 Regular Week 12 | UCLA | Washington State | #12 | L13-31 |
| 2003 Regular Week 7 | UCLA | Washington | #18 | W46-16 |
| 2003 Regular Week 5 | UCLA | Oklahoma | #1 | L24-59 |
| 2003 Regular Week 3 | UCLA | Colorado | #24 | L14-16 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Colorado
2020-2022 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -10.3 • Win % 34.8%
UCLA
2003-2007 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 7.9 • Win % 56.5%
- Longest tenure
- UCLA • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- UCLA • 7.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- UCLA • 56.5%
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.
Karl Dorrell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeKarl Dorrell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Karl Dorrell
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.0
- Percentile
- 61th 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.
Colorado
2020-2022 • 8-15
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -10.3Win % 34.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 5.3 baseline
-1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.8 during vs 0.7 baseline
-6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-10.0 during vs -0.1 baseline
-9.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
UCLA
2003-2007 • 35-27
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.9Win % 56.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.3 during vs 6.8 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.8 during vs 9.6 baseline
-1.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 13.4 baseline
-6.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+5.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
UCLA 2004
6-6 • SRS 11.8
Biggest Improvement
UCLA 2004
6-6 • 12.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
UCLA 2005
10-2 • SP Off 39.2
Best Defensive Season
UCLA 2007
6-6 • SP Def 13.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Colorado 2022
0-5 • SRS -14.7
Biggest Drop
Colorado 2022
0-5 • -8.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado | 2022 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -14.7 | -20.4 | 24.0 | 45.0 | -8.9 | -33.3% | Partial season |
| Colorado | 2021 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -5.8 | -10.0 | 18.8 | 29.6 | — | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Colorado | 2020 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +16.7% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2007 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | #14 | — | 8.4 | 11.2 | 23.1 | 13.4 | -0.9 | -3.9% | Partial season |
| UCLA | 2006 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 9.3 | 8.8 | 23.4 | 15.9 | -1.3 | -29.5% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2005 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #16 | 10.6 | 8.7 | 39.2 | 30.5 | -1.2 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2004 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 11.8 | 10.0 | 38.5 | 30.4 | +12.5 | +3.9% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2003 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -0.7 | -1.4 | 25.2 | 26.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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