Top 25
34-8
- Games
- 42
- Win rate
- 81.0%
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Pete Carroll
2001-2009 • USC
One defining program at USC.
Pete Carroll coached 9 seasons, won 83.6%, and posted an average SRS of 23.5. Best season: 2004 USC. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 97-19
- Career win rate
- 83.6%
- Average SRS
- 23.5
- Peak SRS
- 34.1
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
- #1
- Consistency
- 26.6
Primary school anchor
USC
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 98.7.
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.
Pete Carroll
EliteStrongAverageLean
2001Actual season year • SRS range 8.4 to 34.12009
Active comparison point
Pete Carroll • 2004
2004 USC
Best season13-0 • SRS 34.1 • SP Overall 32.3
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+9.1
SP Off / Def
45.2 / 14.3
Finish
#1
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
13-3
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 81.3%
Top 5
3-2
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 60.0%
View ranked game results42
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
USC
2001-2009 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 23.5 • Win % 83.6%
- Longest tenure
- USC • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- USC • 23.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- USC • 83.6%
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.
Pete Carroll sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgePete Carroll sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Pete Carroll
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 29.0
- Percentile
- 100th 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.
USC
2001-2009 • 97-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.5Win % 83.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.8 during vs 6.2 baseline
+4.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
23.5 during vs 9.1 baseline
+14.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
29.0 during vs 12.0 baseline
+17.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
88.9% during vs 0.0% baseline
+88.9%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
USC 2004
13-0 • SRS 34.1
Biggest Improvement
USC 2002
11-2 • 17.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
USC 2005
12-1 • SP Off 51.6
Best Defensive Season
USC 2008
12-1 • SP Def 7.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
USC 2009
9-4 • SRS 8.4
Biggest Drop
USC 2009
9-4 • -19.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| USC | 2009 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #4 | #22 | 8.4 | 16.6 | 35.2 | 17.4 | -19.6 | -23.1% |
| USC | 2008 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #3 | #3 | 28.0 | 37.0 | 44.4 | 7.2 | +7.8 | +7.7% |
| USC | 2007 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #1 | #3 | 20.2 | 32.0 | 39.0 | 7.7 | -3.1 | 0.0% |
| USC | 2006 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #6 | #4 | 23.3 | 30.3 | 37.8 | 9.3 | -9.3 | -7.7% |
| USC | 2005 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #1 | #2 | 32.6 | 34.7 | 51.6 | 16.9 | -1.5 | -7.7% |
| USC | 2004 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #1 | #1 | 34.1 | 32.3 | 45.2 | 14.3 | +9.1 | +7.7% |
| USC | 2003 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #8 | #1 | 25.0 | 30.1 | 49.4 | 21.5 | -3.9 | +7.7% |
| USC | 2002 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #20 | #4 | 28.9 | 34.5 | 47.7 | 15.5 | +17.8 | +34.6% |
| USC | 2001 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 11.1 | 13.7 | 31.9 | 18.9 | — | — |
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