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Ed Orgeron

2005-2021LSU, Ole Miss, USC

3 schools coached, anchored by LSU.

Ed Orgeron's coaching record is 67-47, highlighted by seasons at LSU from 2005 to 2021.

Ed Orgeron coached 10 seasons, won 58.8%, and posted an average SRS of 9.7. Best season: 2019 LSU. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
67-47
Career win rate
58.8%
Average SRS
9.7
Peak SRS
34.2

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
10
Career span
17 years
Best finish
#1
Consistency
4.3

Primary school anchor

LSU

Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 98.7.

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.

Compare Ed Orgeron
Overall record
67-47

114 countable games, 58.8% win rate.

LSU record
51-20

6 countable seasons at LSU.

Full-season record
49-37

7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Partial-season record
18-10

Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.

Vs AP Top 25
15-18

33 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
12-12

24 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
4-7

11 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Mississippi State
2-2

LSU-Mississippi State games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
3-1

4 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
2-0

2 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
1

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: Jan 5, 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.

Ed Orgeron
EliteStrongAverageLean
Ed Orgeron: 2013 USCEd Orgeron: 2016 LSU
2005Actual season year • SRS range -9.5 to 34.22021

Active comparison point

Ed Orgeron2019

Selected

2019 LSU

Best season

15-0 • SRS 34.2 • SP Overall 33.1

Win %

100.0%

YoY SRS

+15.9

SP Off / Def

48.9 / 17.7

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

15-18

Games
33
Win rate
45.5%

Top 10

12-12

Games
24
Win rate
50.0%

Top 5

4-7

Games
11
Win rate
36.4%
View ranked game results33

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

LSU

2016-20216 seasons

Avg SRS 15.9 • Win % 71.8%

USC

2013-20131 seasons

Avg SRS 15.7 • Win % 75.0%

Ole Miss

2005-20073 seasons

Avg SRS -4.6 • Win % 28.6%

Longest tenure
LSU • 6 seasons
Best tenure
LSU • 15.9 SRS
Best tenure win rate
USC • 75.0%

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.

Ed Orgeron sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Ed Orgeron sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Ed Orgeron

Elite

Raw avg SP Overall
12.6
Percentile
90th 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.

LSU

2016-202151-20

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

Avg SRS 15.9Win % 71.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

9.8 during vs 10.0 baseline

-0.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

17.2 during vs 19.6 baseline

-2.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

21.1 during vs 25.1 baseline

-4.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

50.0% during vs 80.0% baseline

-30.0%

USC

2013-20136-2

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 15.7Win % 75.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Ole Miss

2005-200710-25

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

Avg SRS -4.6Win % 28.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

3.3 during vs 7.0 baseline

-3.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-4.6 during vs 4.1 baseline

-8.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-3.4 during vs 5.6 baseline

-8.9

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

LSU 2019

15-0SRS 34.2

Biggest Improvement

USC 2013

6-216.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

LSU 2019

15-0SP Off 48.9

Best Defensive Season

LSU 2016

6-2SP Def 9.0

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Ole Miss 2005

3-8SRS -9.5

Biggest Drop

LSU 2020

5-5-30.0 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

LSU20211266050.0%#165.44.128.025.6+1.20.0%Partial season
LSU20201055050.0%#64.26.033.828.3-30.0-50.0%Season summary
LSU2019151500100.0%#6#134.233.148.917.7+15.9+23.1%Season summary
LSU201813103076.9%#2518.324.234.813.4+6.2+7.7%Season summary
LSU20171394069.2%#13#1812.121.135.614.0-9.1-5.8%Season summary
LSU2016862075.0%#5#1321.225.334.29.0+5.50.0%Partial season
USC2013862075.0%#24#1915.722.536.612.5+16.6+50.0%Partial season
Ole Miss20071239025.0%-0.9-2.728.129.0+2.4-8.3%Season summary
Ole Miss20061248033.3%-3.3-3.220.123.7+6.2+6.1%Season summary
Ole Miss20051138027.3%-9.5-4.215.720.0Season summary

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