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Lincoln Riley

2017-2025 • Oklahoma, USC

2 schools coached, anchored by Oklahoma.

Lincoln Riley's coaching record is 90-28, highlighted by seasons at Oklahoma from 2017 to 2025.

Lincoln Riley coached 9 seasons, won 76.3%, 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.

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Career record: 90-28
Career win rate: 76.3%
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.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Lincoln Riley

Overall record: 90-28
Oklahoma record: 55-10
Full-season record: 71-22
Partial-season record: 10-2
Vs AP Top 25: 19-18
Vs AP Top 10: 6-9
Vs AP Top 5: 1-6
Vs Texas: 4-1
Postseason / bowl record: 3-5
CFP record: 0-3
National titles: 0

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 31, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.

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

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Lincoln Riley: 2022 USC

2017Actual season year • SRS range 9.0 to 22.72025

Active comparison point

Lincoln Riley • 2017

Selected

2017 Oklahoma

Best season

12-2 • SRS 22.7 • SP Overall 25.5

Win %

85.7%

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

49.8 / 24.2

Finish

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

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

19-18

Games: 37
Win rate: 51.3%

Top 10

6-9

Games: 15
Win rate: 40.0%

Top 5

1-6

Games: 7
Win rate: 14.3%

View ranked game results37


2025 Regular Week 13	USC	Oregon	#6	L27-42
2025 Regular Week 8	USC	Notre Dame	#13	L24-34
2025 Regular Week 7	USC	Michigan	#15	W31-13
2025 Regular Week 5	USC	Illinois	#23	L32-34
2025 Postseason Week 1	USC	TCU	#25	L27-30
2024 Regular Week 14	USC	Notre Dame	#5	L35-49
2024 Regular Week 7	USC	Penn State	#4	L30-33
2024 Regular Week 4	USC	Michigan	#18	L24-27
2024 Regular Week 1	USC	LSU	#13	W27-20
2023 Regular Week 11	USC	Oregon	#6	L27-36
2023 Regular Week 10	USC	Washington	#5	L42-52
2023 Regular Week 8	USC	Utah	#14	L32-34
2023 Regular Week 7	USC	Notre Dame	#21	L20-48
2023 Postseason Week 1	USC	Louisville	#19	W42-28
2022 Regular Week 14	USC	Utah	#12	L24-47
2022 Regular Week 13	USC	Notre Dame	#13	W38-27
2022 Regular Week 12	USC	UCLA	#16	W48-45
2022 Regular Week 7	USC	Utah	#20	L42-43
2022 Postseason Week 1	USC	Tulane	#9	L45-46
2020 Regular Week 16	Oklahoma	Iowa State	#8	W27-21
2020 Regular Week 12	Oklahoma	Oklahoma State	#14	W41-13
2020 Regular Week 6	Oklahoma	Texas	#22	W53-45
2020 Postseason Week 1	Oklahoma	Florida	#13	W55-20
2019 Regular Week 15	Oklahoma	Baylor	#8	W30-23
2019 Regular Week 14	Oklahoma	Oklahoma State	#21	W34-16
2019 Regular Week 12	Oklahoma	Baylor	#12	W34-31
2019 Regular Week 7	Oklahoma	Texas	#11	W34-27
2019 Postseason Week 1	Oklahoma	LSU	#1	L28-63
2018 Regular Week 14	Oklahoma	Texas	#9	W39-27
2018 Regular Week 13	Oklahoma	West Virginia	#12	W59-56
2018 Regular Week 6	Oklahoma	Texas	#19	L45-48
2018 Postseason Week 1	Oklahoma	Alabama	#2	L34-45
2017 Regular Week 14	Oklahoma	TCU	#10	W41-17
2017 Regular Week 11	Oklahoma	TCU	#8	W38-20
2017 Regular Week 10	Oklahoma	Oklahoma State	#11	W62-52
2017 Regular Week 2	Oklahoma	Ohio State	#2	W31-16
2017 Postseason Week 1	Oklahoma	Georgia	#2	L48-54

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 % 66.0%

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 edge

Lincoln Riley sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Lincoln Riley

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Raw avg SP Overall: 18.3
Percentile: 96th pct

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 • 35-18

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

Avg SRS 12.0Win % 66.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.8 during vs 6.2 baseline

+2.5

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

11.3 during vs 10.2 baseline

+1.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

21.1 during vs 18.0 baseline

+3.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

22.8 during vs 23.2 baseline

-0.5

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

75.0% during vs 80.0% baseline

-5.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Oklahoma 2017

12-2 • SRS 22.7

Biggest Improvement

USC 2025

9-4 • 3.4 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Oklahoma 2018

12-2 • SP Off 54.0

Best Defensive Season

USC 2025

9-4 • SP Def 21.0

Setbacks

Lowest SRS 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	13	9	4	69.2%	—	—	15.5	16.9	38.9	21.0	+3.4	+15.4%	Completed-game fallback
USC	2024	13	7	6	53.8%	#23	—	12.1	11.9	35.6	24.0	+3.1	-7.7%	Season summary
USC	2023	13	8	5	61.5%	#6	—	9.0	9.4	43.3	32.8	-2.4	-17.0%	Season summary
USC	2022	14	11	3	78.6%	#14	#12	11.4	18.9	46.6	26.3	+1.9	-4.8%	Season summary
Oklahoma	2021	12	10	2	83.3%	#2	#10	9.5	16.8	41.1	25.6	-10.7	+1.5%	Partial season
Oklahoma	2020	11	9	2	81.8%	#5	#6	20.2	17.8	43.0	25.2	+0.1	-3.9%	Season summary
Oklahoma	2019	14	12	2	85.7%	#4	#7	20.1	22.9	46.1	24.9	-1.3	0.0%	Season summary
Oklahoma	2018	14	12	2	85.7%	#7	—	21.4	24.9	54.0	30.0	-1.3	0.0%	Season summary
Oklahoma	2017	14	12	2	85.7%	#7	#3	22.7	25.5	49.8	24.2	—	—	Season summary