Top 25
21-20
- Games
- 41
- Win rate
- 51.2%
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Coach Profile
Lincoln Riley
2017-2025 • Oklahoma, USC
2 schools coached, anchored by Oklahoma.
Lincoln Riley coached 9 seasons, won 77.1%, and posted an average SRS of 15.8. Best season: 2017 Oklahoma. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 81-24
- Career win rate
- 77.1%
- Average SRS
- 15.8
- Peak SRS
- 22.7
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
- #3
- Consistency
- 73.3
Primary school anchor
Oklahoma
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 89.5.
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.
Lincoln Riley
EliteStrongAverageLean
Lincoln Riley: 2022 USC
2017Actual season year • SRS range 9.0 to 22.72025
Active comparison point
Lincoln Riley • 2017
2017 Oklahoma
Best season12-2 • SRS 22.7 • SP Overall 25.5
Win %
85.7%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
49.8 / 24.2
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
6-10
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 37.5%
Top 5
1-6
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 14.3%
View ranked game results41
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
2022-2025 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 12.0 • Win % 65.0%
Oklahoma
2017-2021 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 18.8 • Win % 84.6%
- Longest tenure
- Oklahoma • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 18.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 84.6%
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.
Lincoln Riley sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeLincoln Riley sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Lincoln Riley
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.3
- Percentile
- 96th 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
2022-2025 • 26-14
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.0Win % 65.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 6.2 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.0 during vs 5.8 baseline
+6.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.3 during vs 10.0 baseline
+4.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-15.0%
Oklahoma
2017-2021 • 55-10
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 18.8Win % 84.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
11.0 during vs 10.2 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
18.8 during vs 18.0 baseline
+0.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
21.6 during vs 23.2 baseline
-1.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
80.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oklahoma 2017
12-2 • SRS 22.7
Biggest Improvement
USC 2025
0-0 • 3.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oklahoma 2018
12-2 • SP Off 54.0
Best Defensive Season
USC 2025
0-0 • SP Def 21.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
USC 2023
8-5 • SRS 9.0
Biggest Drop
Oklahoma 2021
10-2 • -10.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| USC | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 15.5 | 16.9 | 38.9 | 21.0 | +3.4 | — |
| USC | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #23 | — | 12.1 | 11.9 | 35.6 | 24.0 | +3.1 | -7.7% |
| USC | 2023 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #6 | — | 9.0 | 9.4 | 43.3 | 32.8 | -2.4 | -17.0% |
| USC | 2022 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #14 | #12 | 11.4 | 18.9 | 46.6 | 26.3 | +1.9 | -4.8% |
| Oklahoma | 2021 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #2 | #10 | 9.5 | 16.8 | 41.1 | 25.6 | -10.7 | +1.5% |
| Oklahoma | 2020 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #5 | #6 | 20.2 | 17.8 | 43.0 | 25.2 | +0.1 | -3.9% |
| Oklahoma | 2019 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #4 | #7 | 20.1 | 22.9 | 46.1 | 24.9 | -1.3 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 2018 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #7 | — | 21.4 | 24.9 | 54.0 | 30.0 | -1.3 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 2017 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #7 | #3 | 22.7 | 25.5 | 49.8 | 24.2 | — | — |
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