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- Games
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- Win rate
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Jim Yeager
1937-1947 • Colorado, Iowa State
2 schools coached, anchored by Iowa State.
Jim Yeager coached 9 seasons, won 52.5%, and posted an average SRS of -6.9. Best season: 1943 Colorado. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 40-36-3
- Career win rate
- 52.5%
- Average SRS
- -6.9
- Peak SRS
- 6.7
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
- 11 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 47.3
Primary school anchor
Iowa State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 53.1.
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.
Jim Yeager
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Jim Yeager: 1941 Colorado
1937Actual season year • SRS range -13.4 to 6.71947
Active comparison point
Jim Yeager • 1943
1943 Colorado
Best season5-2 • SRS 6.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
71.4%
YoY SRS
+11.5
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results7
| 1947 Regular Week 4 | Colorado | Army | #10 | L0-47 |
| 1946 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Texas | #3 | L0-76 |
| 1941 Regular Week 3 | Colorado | Missouri | #19 | L6-21 |
| 1941 Regular Week 2 | Colorado | Texas | #2 | L6-34 |
| 1939 Regular Week 7 | Iowa State | Missouri | #8 | L6-21 |
| 1937 Regular Week 4 | Iowa State | Nebraska | #11 | L7-20 |
| 1937 Regular Week 3 | Iowa State | Northwestern | #19 | L0-33 |
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
1946-1947 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -12.6 • Win % 50.0%
Colorado
1941-1943 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -3.6 • Win % 64.6%
Iowa State
1937-1940 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -6.5 • Win % 45.8%
- Longest tenure
- Iowa State • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Colorado • -3.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Colorado • 64.6%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Yeager
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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
1946-1947 • 9-9-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -12.6Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 5.2 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-12.6 during vs 0.8 baseline
-13.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Colorado
1941-1943 • 15-8-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.6Win % 64.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.6 during vs -3.7 baseline
+0.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Iowa State
1937-1940 • 16-19-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.5Win % 45.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 3.2 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.5 during vs -2.8 baseline
-3.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Colorado 1943
5-2 • SRS 6.7
Biggest Improvement
Iowa State 1938
7-1-1 • 15.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Colorado 1946
5-4-1 • SRS -13.4
Biggest Drop
Colorado 1946
5-4-1 • -20.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado | 1947 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -11.7 | — | — | — | +1.7 | -10.6% |
| Colorado | 1946 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -13.4 | — | — | — | -20.1 | -16.4% |
| Colorado | 1943 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 6.7 | — | — | — | +11.5 | -6.3% |
| Colorado | 1942 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | +8.0 | +34.0% |
| Colorado | 1941 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | -12.8 | — | — | — | -5.5 | -0.7% |
| Iowa State | 1940 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -7.3 | — | — | — | +1.3 | +22.2% |
| Iowa State | 1939 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -8.6 | — | — | — | -11.4 | -61.1% |
| Iowa State | 1938 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | — | 2.8 | — | — | — | +15.7 | +50.0% |
| Iowa State | 1937 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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