Top 25
17-32-1
- Games
- 50
- Win rate
- 35.0%
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Bill McCartney
1982-1994 • Colorado
One defining program at Colorado.
Bill McCartney coached 13 seasons, won 62.4%, and posted an average SRS of 9.1. Best season: 1989 Colorado. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 93-55-5
- Career win rate
- 62.4%
- Average SRS
- 9.1
- Peak SRS
- 24.4
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
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 7.4
Primary school anchor
Colorado
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 91.7.
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.
Bill McCartney
EliteStrongAverageLean
1982Actual season year • SRS range -12.7 to 24.41994
Active comparison point
Bill McCartney • 1989
1989 Colorado
Best season11-1 • SRS 24.4 • SP Overall 29.0
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+14.6
SP Off / Def
44.7 / 17.5
Finish
#4
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
7-22-1
- Games
- 30
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
2-10
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 16.7%
View ranked game results50
| 1994 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Nebraska | #3 | L7-24 |
| 1994 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Kansas State | #19 | W35-21 |
| 1994 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #22 | W45-7 |
| 1994 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Texas | #16 | W34-31 |
| 1994 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Michigan | #4 | W27-26 |
| 1994 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Wisconsin | #10 | W55-17 |
| 1993 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Nebraska | #6 | L17-21 |
| 1993 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #9 | W27-10 |
| 1993 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Miami | #3 | L29-35 |
| 1993 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Stanford | #20 | L37-41 |
| 1993 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Baylor | #24 | W45-21 |
| 1992 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Kansas | #20 | W25-18 |
| 1992 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Nebraska | #8 | L7-52 |
| 1992 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Syracuse | #6 | L22-26 |
| 1991 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Nebraska | #9 | T19-19 |
| 1991 Regular Week 8 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #12 | W34-17 |
| 1991 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Baylor | #23 | L14-16 |
| 1991 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Alabama | #5 | L25-30 |
| 1990 Regular Week 11 | Colorado | Nebraska | #13 | W27-12 |
| 1990 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Washington | #17 | W20-14 |
| 1990 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Illinois | #15 | L22-23 |
| 1990 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Notre Dame | #6 | W10-9 |
| 1989 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Nebraska | #3 | W27-21 |
| 1989 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Washington | #21 | W45-28 |
| 1989 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Illinois | #10 | W38-7 |
| 1989 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Notre Dame | #2 | L6-21 |
| 1988 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Nebraska | #7 | L0-7 |
| 1988 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #8 | L14-17 |
| 1988 Regular Week 7 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #13 | L21-41 |
| 1988 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Iowa | #19 | W24-21 |
| 1987 Regular Week 14 | Colorado | Nebraska | #5 | L7-24 |
| 1987 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #1 | L6-24 |
| 1987 Regular Week 7 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #12 | L17-42 |
| 1986 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #3 | L0-28 |
| 1986 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #9 | W20-10 |
| 1986 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Arizona | #10 | L21-24 |
| 1986 Postseason Week 1 | Colorado | Baylor | #12 | L9-21 |
| 1985 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #7 | L0-31 |
| 1985 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #12 | L11-14 |
| 1985 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #5 | L7-17 |
| 1985 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Ohio State | #7 | L13-36 |
| 1984 Regular Week 12 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #6 | L17-42 |
| 1984 Regular Week 10 | Colorado | Oklahoma State | #7 | L14-20 |
| 1984 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #4 | L7-24 |
| 1984 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | UCLA | #17 | L16-33 |
| 1984 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | Notre Dame | #19 | L14-55 |
| 1983 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Nebraska | #1 | L19-69 |
| 1982 Regular Week 9 | Colorado | Oklahoma | #17 | L10-45 |
| 1982 Regular Week 6 | Colorado | Nebraska | #7 | L14-40 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | Colorado | UCLA | #9 | L6-34 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Colorado
1982-1994 • 13 seasons
Avg SRS 9.1 • Win % 62.4%
- Longest tenure
- Colorado • 13 seasons
- Best tenure
- Colorado • 9.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Colorado • 62.4%
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.
Bill McCartney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBill McCartney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill McCartney
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.2
- Percentile
- 87th 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.
Colorado
1982-1994 • 93-55-5
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.1Win % 62.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.2 during vs 4.0 baseline
+3.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.1 during vs 0.4 baseline
+8.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.2 during vs -2.9 baseline
+14.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
46.2% during vs 0.0% baseline
+46.2%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Colorado 1989
11-1 • SRS 24.4
Biggest Improvement
Colorado 1985
7-5 • 20.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Colorado 1994
11-1 • SP Off 44.8
Best Defensive Season
Colorado 1985
7-5 • SP Def 14.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Colorado 1984
1-10 • SRS -12.7
Biggest Drop
Colorado 1984
1-10 • -8.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado | 1994 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #8 | #3 | 21.8 | 25.2 | 44.8 | 22.5 | +5.2 | +20.8% |
| Colorado | 1993 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | #11 | #16 | 16.6 | 21.0 | 40.5 | 21.5 | +3.9 | -8.3% |
| Colorado | 1992 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | #12 | #13 | 12.7 | 16.6 | 35.9 | 21.0 | -2.2 | +8.3% |
| Colorado | 1991 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | #13 | #20 | 14.9 | 16.3 | 32.9 | 18.0 | -6.3 | -17.6% |
| Colorado | 1990 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 88.5% | #5 | #1 | 21.2 | 26.7 | 41.1 | 16.3 | -3.2 | -3.2% |
| Colorado | 1989 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #14 | #4 | 24.4 | 29.0 | 44.7 | 17.5 | +14.6 | +25.0% |
| Colorado | 1988 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 9.8 | 13.1 | 32.1 | 19.8 | +2.0 | +3.0% |
| Colorado | 1987 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 7.8 | 8.1 | 28.4 | 21.0 | +1.7 | +13.6% |
| Colorado | 1986 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 6.1 | 9.0 | 25.7 | 17.5 | -1.5 | -8.3% |
| Colorado | 1985 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 7.6 | 10.8 | 24.7 | 14.6 | +20.3 | +49.2% |
| Colorado | 1984 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -12.7 | -15.9 | 22.7 | 36.3 | -8.7 | -27.3% |
| Colorado | 1983 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -4.0 | -4.4 | 31.1 | 34.9 | +4.4 | +13.6% |
| Colorado | 1982 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -8.4 | -10.3 | 20.7 | 30.2 | — | — |
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