Top 25
21-17
- Games
- 38
- Win rate
- 55.3%
Back to Coaches
Peak DominatorOffense-FirstLong Career
Coach Profile
Chip Kelly
2009-2023 • Oregon, UCLA
2 schools coached, anchored by UCLA.
Chip Kelly's coaching record is 81-41, highlighted by seasons at UCLA from 2009 to 2023.
Chip Kelly coached 10 seasons, won 66.4%, and posted an average SRS of 13.2. Best season: 2010 Oregon. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 81-41
- Career win rate
- 66.4%
- Average SRS
- 13.2
- Peak SRS
- 29.6
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
- 10
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 5.6
Primary school anchor
UCLA
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 96.5.
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
- 81-41
- UCLA record
- 35-34
- Full-season record
- 81-41
- Vs AP Top 10
- 5-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-3
- Vs California
- 4-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
122 countable games, 66.4% win rate.
6 countable seasons at UCLA.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
California-UCLA games in this dataset.
6 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 17, 2023. 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.
Chip Kelly
EliteStrongAverageLean
Chip Kelly: 2018 UCLA
2009Actual season year • SRS range -4.0 to 29.62023
Active comparison point
Chip Kelly • 2010
2010 Oregon
Best seasonBiggest improvement12-1 • SRS 29.6 • SP Overall 28.2
Win %
92.3%
YoY SRS
+13.7
SP Off / Def
43.5 / 16.0
Finish
#3
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
5-9
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 35.7%
Top 5
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
View ranked game results38
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
UCLA
2018-2023 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 4.0 • Win % 50.7%
Oregon
2009-2012 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 24.8 • Win % 86.8%
- Longest tenure
- UCLA • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oregon • 24.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oregon • 86.8%
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.
Chip Kelly sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChip Kelly sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chip Kelly
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 15.0
- Percentile
- 94th 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.
UCLA
2018-2023 • 35-34
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.0Win % 50.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 7.0 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 10.0 baseline
-6.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 14.1 baseline
-8.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 40.0% baseline
-23.3%
Oregon
2009-2012 • 46-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 24.8Win % 86.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
11.5 during vs 8.2 baseline
+3.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
24.8 during vs 13.5 baseline
+11.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
26.3 during vs 15.1 baseline
+11.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oregon 2010
12-1 • SRS 29.6
Biggest Improvement
Oregon 2010
12-1 • 13.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oregon 2012
12-1 • SP Off 46.4
Best Defensive Season
Oregon 2009
10-3 • SP Def 15.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
UCLA 2018
3-9 • SRS -4.0
Biggest Drop
UCLA 2018
3-9 • -33.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| UCLA | 2023 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 7.7 | 9.7 | 29.6 | 18.4 | -0.7 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2022 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #21 | 8.4 | 15.0 | 45.7 | 30.1 | -0.8 | +2.6% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2021 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 9.2 | 9.4 | 37.7 | 27.8 | — | +23.8% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2020 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.9% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +9.5% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2019 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -1.5 | -3.9 | 28.4 | 32.5 | +2.5 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| UCLA | 2018 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -4.0 | -0.4 | 30.7 | 32.4 | -33.1 | -67.3% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2012 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #5 | #2 | 29.1 | 27.2 | 46.4 | 17.2 | +4.7 | +6.6% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2011 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #3 | #4 | 24.4 | 27.2 | 46.3 | 19.9 | -5.2 | -6.6% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2010 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #11 | #3 | 29.6 | 28.2 | 43.5 | 16.0 | +13.7 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Oregon | 2009 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #16 | #11 | 15.9 | 22.4 | 36.2 | 15.5 | — | — | Season summary |
Similar coaches
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
Bobby Petrino
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.9
Avg SRS 10.0 • Peak SRS 22.3 • 14 seasons
Best finish #5 • Volatility 10.8
Open profile →David Shaw
same offense-first identity • volatility within 2.0
Avg SRS 11.0 • Peak SRS 23.4 • 12 seasons
Best finish #3 • Volatility 9.7
Open profile →John Wilce
avg SRS within 0.6 • volatility within 1.4
Avg SRS 13.8 • Peak SRS 33.6 • 16 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.4
Open profile →Bob Devaney
volatility within 0.3 • career span within 1 years
Avg SRS 15.2 • Peak SRS 37.9 • 16 seasons
Best finish #1 • Volatility 12.1
Open profile →Jumbo Stiehm
avg SRS within 1.1 • volatility within 0.8
Avg SRS 12.1 • Peak SRS 24.4 • 11 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.9
Open profile →Jimmy Johnson
avg SRS within 0.6 • volatility within 1.1
Avg SRS 13.8 • Peak SRS 27.7 • 10 seasons
Best finish #1 • Volatility 10.6
Open profile →