Top 25
24-29
- Games
- 53
- Win rate
- 45.3%
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Coach Profile
Steve Sarkisian
2009-2025 • Texas, USC, Washington
3 schools coached, anchored by Texas.
Steve Sarkisian's coaching record is 91-53, highlighted by seasons at Texas from 2009 to 2025.
Steve Sarkisian coached 11 seasons, won 63.2%, and posted an average SRS of 11.5. Best season: 2023 Texas. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 91-53
- Career win rate
- 63.2%
- Average SRS
- 11.5
- Peak SRS
- 22.0
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
- 11
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- #3
- Consistency
- 39.6
Primary school anchor
Texas
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 88.5.
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
- 91-53
- Texas record
- 48-20
- Full-season record
- 73-46
- Partial-season record
- 8-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 10-15
- Vs AP Top 5
- 3-10
- Vs Oklahoma
- 3-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-5
- CFP record
- 2-2
- National titles
- 0
144 countable games, 63.2% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Texas.
9 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
25 games using AP ranking at game time.
13 games using AP ranking at game time.
Red River Rivalry games in this dataset.
10 scored postseason games in this dataset.
4 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 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.
Steve Sarkisian
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Steve Sarkisian: 2014 USCSteve Sarkisian: 2021 Texas
2009Actual season year • SRS range 2.9 to 22.02025
Active comparison point
Steve Sarkisian • 2023
2023 Texas
Best season12-2 • SRS 22.0 • SP Overall 23.2
Win %
85.7%
YoY SRS
+4.9
SP Off / Def
39.3 / 17.7
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
10-15
- Games
- 25
- Win rate
- 40.0%
Top 5
3-10
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 23.1%
View ranked game results53
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Texas
2021-2025 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 15.0 • Win % 70.6%
USC
2014-2014 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 16.6 • Win % 69.2%
Washington
2009-2013 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 7.0 • Win % 54.0%
- Longest tenure
- Texas • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- USC • 16.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Texas • 70.6%
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.
Steve Sarkisian sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeSteve Sarkisian sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Steve Sarkisian
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- Raw avg SP Overall
- 13.3
- Percentile
- 92th 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.
Texas
2021-2025 • 48-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 15.0Win % 70.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.6 during vs 7.4 baseline
+2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
15.0 during vs 11.0 baseline
+4.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
19.0 during vs 10.8 baseline
+8.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
60.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+20.0%
USC
2014-2014 • 9-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.6Win % 69.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.0 during vs 7.5 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
16.6 during vs 13.3 baseline
+3.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.1 during vs 20.2 baseline
-3.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+40.0%
Washington
2009-2013 • 34-29
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.0Win % 54.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 2.4 baseline
+4.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.9 during vs -2.7 baseline
+6.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
3.3 during vs -4.8 baseline
+8.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Texas 2023
12-2 • SRS 22.0
Biggest Improvement
Washington 2013
8-4 • 15.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Texas 2023
12-2 • SP Off 39.3
Best Defensive Season
Texas 2024
13-3 • SP Def 10.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Washington 2009
5-7 • SRS 2.9
Biggest Drop
Texas 2021
5-7 • -12.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Texas | 2025 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 12.6 | 16.2 | 32.9 | 17.9 | -6.8 | -4.3% | Completed-game fallback |
| Texas | 2024 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 81.3% | #4 | #4 | 19.4 | 24.1 | 36.6 | 10.8 | -2.6 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2023 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #11 | #3 | 22.0 | 23.2 | 39.3 | 17.7 | +4.9 | +24.2% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2022 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | #25 | 17.1 | 23.1 | 38.1 | 15.6 | +13.2 | +19.9% | Season summary |
| Texas | 2021 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #21 | — | 3.9 | 8.5 | 34.6 | 28.4 | -12.7 | -27.6% | Season summary |
| USC | 2014 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #15 | #20 | 16.6 | 17.1 | 38.8 | 22.5 | -3.2 | +2.6% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2013 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #25 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 37.6 | 18.3 | +15.8 | +12.8% | Partial season |
| Washington | 2012 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 4.0 | 6.1 | 27.7 | 20.0 | +0.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2011 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 3.4 | 3.9 | 36.4 | 34.4 | -1.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2010 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 5.1 | 3.2 | 29.2 | 26.0 | +2.2 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Washington | 2009 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 2.9 | -0.2 | 29.9 | 30.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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