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7-32-3
- Games
- 42
- Win rate
- 20.2%
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Coach Profile
Doug Dickey
1964-1978 • Florida, Tennessee
2 schools coached, anchored by Florida.
Doug Dickey coached 15 seasons, won 63.7%, and posted an average SRS of 13.8. Best season: 1969 Tennessee. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 104-58-6
- Career win rate
- 63.7%
- Average SRS
- 13.8
- Peak SRS
- 22.4
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
- 15
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 41.2
Primary school anchor
Florida
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 89.0.
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.
Doug Dickey
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Doug Dickey: 1970 Florida
1964Actual season year • SRS range 2.0 to 22.41978
Active comparison point
Doug Dickey • 1969
1969 Tennessee
Best season9-2 • SRS 22.4 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
+2.9
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#15
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
1-20-2
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 8.7%
Top 5
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
View ranked game results42
| 1978 Regular Week 11 | Florida | Georgia | #8 | L22-24 |
| 1978 Regular Week 7 | Florida | Alabama | #4 | L12-23 |
| 1978 Regular Week 6 | Florida | LSU | #11 | L21-34 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | Florida | Kentucky | #7 | L7-14 |
| 1977 Regular Week 6 | Florida | Pittsburgh | #17 | T17-17 |
| 1977 Regular Week 5 | Florida | LSU | #18 | L14-36 |
| 1977 Regular Week 4 | Florida | Mississippi State | #18 | W24-22 |
| 1976 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Georgia | #7 | L27-41 |
| 1976 Regular Week 5 | Florida | LSU | #20 | W28-23 |
| 1976 Regular Week 2 | Florida | North Carolina | #17 | L21-24 |
| 1976 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Texas A&M | #7 | L14-37 |
| 1975 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Maryland | #13 | L0-13 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Auburn | #5 | W25-14 |
| 1974 Regular Week 3 | Florida | Maryland | #14 | W17-10 |
| 1974 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Nebraska | #9 | L10-13 |
| 1973 Regular Week 7 | Florida | Alabama | #2 | L14-35 |
| 1973 Regular Week 6 | Florida | LSU | #10 | L3-24 |
| 1973 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Miami (OH) | #15 | L7-16 |
| 1972 Regular Week 14 | Florida | North Carolina | #16 | L24-28 |
| 1972 Regular Week 12 | Florida | LSU | #8 | T3-3 |
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Auburn | #11 | L20-26 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | Florida | Alabama | #3 | L7-24 |
| 1972 Regular Week 5 | Florida | Florida State | #13 | W42-13 |
| 1971 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Georgia | #7 | L7-49 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Florida | Auburn | #5 | L7-40 |
| 1971 Regular Week 6 | Florida | Florida State | #19 | W17-15 |
| 1971 Regular Week 5 | Florida | LSU | #16 | L7-48 |
| 1971 Regular Week 4 | Florida | Tennessee | #12 | L13-20 |
| 1971 Regular Week 3 | Florida | Alabama | #8 | L0-38 |
| 1970 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Auburn | #8 | L14-63 |
| 1970 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Tennessee | #8 | L7-38 |
| 1969 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #13 | L0-38 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Tennessee | Georgia | #16 | W17-3 |
| 1969 Postseason Week 1 | Tennessee | Florida | #14 | L13-14 |
| 1968 Regular Week 9 | Tennessee | Auburn | #18 | L14-28 |
| 1968 Postseason Week 1 | Tennessee | Texas | #3 | L13-36 |
| 1967 Regular Week 2 | Tennessee | UCLA | #6 | L16-20 |
| 1967 Postseason Week 1 | Tennessee | Oklahoma | #3 | L24-26 |
| 1966 Regular Week 6 | Tennessee | Alabama | #4 | L10-11 |
| 1966 Regular Week 5 | Tennessee | Georgia Tech | #7 | L3-6 |
| 1964 Regular Week 7 | Tennessee | LSU | #8 | T3-3 |
| 1964 Regular Week 6 | Tennessee | Alabama | #3 | L8-19 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Florida
1970-1978 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 11.3 • Win % 57.3%
Tennessee
1964-1969 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 17.4 • Win % 73.9%
- Longest tenure
- Florida • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Tennessee • 17.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Tennessee • 73.9%
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.
Doug Dickey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDoug Dickey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Doug Dickey
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- Raw avg SP Overall
- 12.8
- Percentile
- 91th pct
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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.
Florida
1970-1978 • 58-43-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.3Win % 57.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 7.4 baseline
-1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 14.7 baseline
-3.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
12.8 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
11.1% during vs 20.0% baseline
-8.9%
Tennessee
1964-1969 • 46-15-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 17.4Win % 73.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 5.2 baseline
+2.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
17.4 during vs 12.0 baseline
+5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
66.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+66.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tennessee 1969
9-2 • SRS 22.4
Biggest Improvement
Tennessee 1965
8-1-2 • 18.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Florida 1976
8-4 • SP Off 38.1
Best Defensive Season
Florida 1972
5-5-1 • SP Def 9.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Florida 1971
4-7 • SRS 2.0
Biggest Drop
Florida 1970
7-4 • -19.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida | 1978 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 12.7 | 15.7 | 33.0 | 18.8 | +4.6 | -22.7% |
| Florida | 1977 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | #17 | — | 8.1 | 4.0 | 28.7 | 25.6 | -4.3 | -7.6% |
| Florida | 1976 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #18 | — | 12.4 | 14.2 | 38.1 | 25.5 | -7.5 | -8.3% |
| Florida | 1975 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #15 | — | 19.9 | 20.4 | 30.4 | 10.9 | +3.3 | +8.3% |
| Florida | 1974 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #15 | 16.6 | 22.7 | 33.5 | 11.4 | +9.5 | +8.3% |
| Florida | 1973 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #15 | — | 7.1 | 9.0 | 22.5 | 14.0 | -12.9 | +8.3% |
| Florida | 1972 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 20.0 | 20.7 | 29.4 | 9.1 | +18.0 | +13.6% |
| Florida | 1971 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.0 | 2.1 | 27.0 | 25.6 | -1.0 | -27.3% |
| Florida | 1970 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | #15 | — | 3.0 | 6.2 | 29.0 | 24.1 | -19.4 | -18.2% |
| Tennessee | 1969 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #15 | #15 | 22.4 | — | — | — | +2.9 | +4.5% |
| Tennessee | 1968 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | #9 | #13 | 19.5 | — | — | — | -0.1 | -4.5% |
| Tennessee | 1967 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #9 | #2 | 19.6 | — | — | — | -0.1 | +9.1% |
| Tennessee | 1966 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | #10 | — | 19.7 | — | — | — | -1.5 | -9.1% |
| Tennessee | 1965 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 81.8% | — | #7 | 21.2 | — | — | — | +18.9 | +36.8% |
| Tennessee | 1964 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 2.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
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