Top 25
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
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DJ Durkin
2014-2017 • Florida, Maryland
2 schools coached, anchored by Maryland.
DJ Durkin's coaching record is 11-15, highlighted by seasons at Maryland from 2014 to 2017.
DJ Durkin coached 3 seasons, won 42.3%, and posted an average SRS of 2.7. Best season: 2014 Florida. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 11-15
- Career win rate
- 42.3%
- Average SRS
- 2.7
- Peak SRS
- 9.6
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
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 75.7
Primary school anchor
Maryland
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 60.2.
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
- 11-15
- Maryland record
- 10-15
- Full-season record
- 10-15
- Partial-season record
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
26 countable games, 42.3% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Maryland.
2 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.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 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: Nov 25, 2017. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
DJ Durkin
EliteStrongAverageLean
DJ Durkin: 2016 Maryland
2014Actual season year • SRS range -0.8 to 9.62017
Active comparison point
DJ Durkin • 2014
2014 Florida
Best season1-0 • SRS 9.6 • SP Overall 17.3
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
29.8 / 14.1
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 results9
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Maryland
2016-2017 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -0.8 • Win % 40.0%
Florida
2014-2014 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 9.6 • Win % 100.0%
- Longest tenure
- Maryland • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Florida • 9.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Florida • 100.0%
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.
DJ Durkin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDJ Durkin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
DJ Durkin
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 4.1
- Percentile
- 70th pct
Strong
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.
Maryland
2016-2017 • 10-15
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.8Win % 40.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 4.4 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.8 during vs -4.2 baseline
+3.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.5 during vs -0.2 baseline
-2.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Florida
2014-2014 • 1-0
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 9.6Win % 100.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Florida 2014
1-0 • SRS 9.6
Biggest Improvement
Maryland 2017
4-8 • 0.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Florida 2014
1-0 • SP Off 29.8
Best Defensive Season
Florida 2014
1-0 • SP Def 14.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Maryland 2017
4-8 • SRS -0.8
Biggest Drop
Maryland 2016
6-7 • -10.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Maryland | 2017 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -0.8 | -4.5 | 26.7 | 28.3 | 0.0 | -12.8% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 2016 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -0.8 | -0.6 | 28.7 | 28.1 | -10.4 | -53.8% | Season summary |
| Florida | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 9.6 | 17.3 | 29.8 | 14.1 | — | — | Partial season |
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