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Deion Sanders

2023-2025Colorado

One defining program at Colorado.

Deion Sanders coached 3 seasons, won 52.0%, and posted an average SRS of 3.8. Best season: 2024 Colorado. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
13-12
Career win rate
52.0%
Average SRS
3.8
Peak SRS
12.7

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
3
Career span
3 years
Best finish
#25
Consistency
54.0

Primary school anchor

Colorado

Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 67.7.

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.

Deion Sanders
EliteStrongAverageLean
2023Actual season year • SRS range -2.2 to 12.72025

Active comparison point

Deion Sanders2024

Selected

2024 Colorado

Best seasonBiggest improvement

9-4 • SRS 12.7 • SP Overall 8.1

Win %

69.2%

YoY SRS

+11.9

SP Off / Def

33.3 / 23.5

Finish

#25

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

2-8

Games
10
Win rate
20.0%

Top 10

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results10

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

2023-20253 seasons

Avg SRS 3.8 • Win % 52.0%

Longest tenure
Colorado • 3 seasons
Best tenure
Colorado • 3.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Colorado • 52.0%

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.

Deion Sanders sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Deion Sanders sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Deion Sanders

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall
-1.7
Percentile
51th pct

Mixed

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

2023-202513-12

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

Avg SRS 3.8Win % 52.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.3 during vs 3.2 baseline

+1.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

3.8 during vs -6.3 baseline

+10.0

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-1.7 during vs -8.8 baseline

+7.1

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline

+33.3%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Colorado 2024

9-4SRS 12.7

Biggest Improvement

Colorado 2024

9-411.9 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Colorado 2024

9-4SP Off 33.3

Best Defensive Season

Colorado 2024

9-4SP Def 23.5

Setbacks

Worst Season

Colorado 2025

0-0SRS -2.2

Biggest Drop

Colorado 2025

0-0-14.9 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Colorado20250000-2.2-8.322.629.5-14.9
Colorado20241394069.2%#2512.78.133.323.5+11.9+35.9%
Colorado20231248033.3%0.8-4.929.634.4

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