Top 25
5-12-1
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 30.6%
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Ray Graves
1960-1969 • Florida
One defining program at Florida.
Ray Graves's coaching record is 70-31-4, highlighted by seasons at Florida from 1960 to 1969.
Ray Graves coached 10 seasons, won 68.6%, and posted an average SRS of 13.7. Best season: 1969 Florida. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 70-31-4
- Career win rate
- 68.6%
- Average SRS
- 13.7
- Peak SRS
- 20.0
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 71.3
Primary school anchor
Florida
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 84.2.
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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
- 70-31-4
- Florida record
- 70-31-4
- Full-season record
- 70-31-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 3-10
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Georgia
- 6-3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 4-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
105 countable games, 68.6% win rate.
10 countable seasons at Florida.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
13 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Florida-Georgia games in this dataset.
5 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: Dec 27, 1969. 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.
Ray Graves
EliteStrongAverageLean
1960Actual season year • SRS range 4.3 to 20.01969
Active comparison point
Ray Graves • 1969
1969 Florida
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-1-1 • SRS 20.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
86.4%
YoY SRS
+14.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#14
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
3-10
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 23.1%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results18
| 1969 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Georgia | #16 | T13-13 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Florida | Auburn | #11 | L12-38 |
| 1969 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Tennessee | #15 | W14-13 |
| 1968 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Georgia | #9 | L0-51 |
| 1966 Regular Week 12 | Florida | Miami | #9 | L16-21 |
| 1966 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Georgia | #9 | L10-27 |
| 1966 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Georgia Tech | #8 | W27-12 |
| 1965 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Missouri | #6 | L18-20 |
| 1964 Regular Week 7 | Florida | Alabama | #3 | L14-17 |
| 1963 Regular Week 8 | Florida | Auburn | #5 | L0-19 |
| 1963 Regular Week 5 | Florida | Alabama | #9 | W10-6 |
| 1962 Regular Week 7 | Florida | LSU | #4 | L0-23 |
| 1962 Regular Week 3 | Florida | Georgia Tech | #5 | L0-17 |
| 1962 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Penn State | #9 | W17-7 |
| 1961 Regular Week 8 | Florida | Georgia Tech | #9 | L0-20 |
| 1961 Regular Week 7 | Florida | LSU | #6 | L0-23 |
| 1960 Regular Week 8 | Florida | Auburn | #12 | L7-10 |
| 1960 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Baylor | #12 | W13-12 |
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
1960-1969 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 13.7 • Win % 68.6%
- Longest tenure
- Florida • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Florida • 13.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Florida • 68.6%
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.
Ray Graves
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.
Florida
1960-1969 • 70-31-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 13.7Win % 68.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 5.4 baseline
+1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
13.7 during vs 13.2 baseline
+0.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Florida 1969
9-1-1 • SRS 20.0
Biggest Improvement
Florida 1969
9-1-1 • 14.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Florida 1961
4-5-1 • SRS 4.3
Biggest Drop
Florida 1961
4-5-1 • -10.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida | 1969 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 86.4% | — | #14 | 20.0 | — | — | — | +14.2 | +21.4% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1968 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | #7 | — | 5.8 | — | — | — | -5.2 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1967 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 11.0 | — | — | — | -7.5 | -21.8% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1966 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 18.5 | — | — | — | +0.1 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1965 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 18.4 | — | — | — | +1.5 | -6.4% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1964 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 16.9 | — | — | — | +6.7 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1963 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 10.2 | — | — | — | -6.6 | +1.4% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1962 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 16.8 | — | — | — | +12.5 | +18.6% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1961 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 4.3 | — | — | — | -10.5 | -36.8% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1960 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #18 | 14.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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