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- Win rate
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Coach Profile
Charley Pell
1977-1984 • Clemson, Florida
2 schools coached, anchored by Florida.
Charley Pell's coaching record is 51-30-4, highlighted by seasons at Florida from 1977 to 1984.
Charley Pell coached 8 seasons, won 62.4%, and posted an average SRS of 14.8. Best season: 1984 Florida. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 51-30-4
- Career win rate
- 62.4%
- Average SRS
- 14.8
- Peak SRS
- 22.7
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #3
- Consistency
- 40.4
Primary school anchor
Florida
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 89.5.
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
- 51-30-4
- Florida record
- 33-26-3
- Full-season record
- 40-28-3
- Partial-season record
- 11-2-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-12
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-8
- Vs Georgia
- 0-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
85 countable games, 62.4% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Florida.
6 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.
13 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 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 1, 1984. 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.
Charley Pell
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Charley Pell: 1979 Florida
1977Actual season year • SRS range -2.7 to 22.71984
Active comparison point
Charley Pell • 1984
1984 Florida
Best season1-1-1 • SRS 22.7 • SP Overall 26.8
Win %
50.0%
YoY SRS
+1.6
SP Off / Def
40.3 / 15.0
Finish
#3
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
1-12
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 7.7%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results25
| 1983 Regular Week 11 | Florida | Georgia | #4 | L9-10 |
| 1983 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Auburn | #3 | L21-28 |
| 1983 Regular Week 3 | Florida | USC | #14 | T19-19 |
| 1983 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Iowa | #14 | W14-6 |
| 1982 Regular Week 14 | Florida | Florida State | #15 | W13-10 |
| 1982 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Georgia | #3 | L0-44 |
| 1982 Regular Week 9 | Florida | Auburn | #19 | W19-17 |
| 1982 Regular Week 2 | Florida | USC | #10 | W17-9 |
| 1982 Regular Week 1 | Florida | Miami | #15 | W17-14 |
| 1982 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | Arkansas | #9 | L24-28 |
| 1981 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Georgia | #4 | L21-26 |
| 1981 Regular Week 4 | Florida | Mississippi State | #12 | L7-28 |
| 1981 Postseason Week 1 | Florida | West Virginia | #17 | L6-26 |
| 1980 Regular Week 15 | Florida | Florida State | #2 | L13-17 |
| 1980 Regular Week 14 | Florida | Miami | #20 | L7-31 |
| 1980 Regular Week 11 | Florida | Georgia | #1 | L21-26 |
| 1979 Regular Week 13 | Florida | Florida State | #4 | L16-27 |
| 1979 Regular Week 10 | Florida | Auburn | #16 | L13-19 |
| 1979 Regular Week 7 | Florida | Alabama | #1 | L0-40 |
| 1979 Regular Week 6 | Florida | LSU | #13 | L3-20 |
| 1979 Regular Week 3 | Florida | Houston | #10 | L10-14 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | Clemson | Notre Dame | #6 | L17-21 |
| 1977 Regular Week 10 | Clemson | North Carolina | #19 | T13-13 |
| 1977 Regular Week 2 | Clemson | Maryland | #11 | L14-21 |
| 1977 Postseason Week 1 | Clemson | Pittsburgh | #8 | L3-34 |
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
1979-1984 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 14.2 • Win % 55.6%
Clemson
1977-1978 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 16.4 • Win % 80.4%
- Longest tenure
- Florida • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Clemson • 16.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Clemson • 80.4%
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.
Charley Pell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeCharley Pell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Charley Pell
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 17.4
- Percentile
- 96th pct
Elite
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
1979-1984 • 33-26-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.2Win % 55.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 7.0 baseline
-0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.5 during vs 13.9 baseline
-1.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.7 during vs 15.4 baseline
-0.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+0.0%
Clemson
1977-1978 • 18-4-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.4Win % 80.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
+3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.4 during vs -1.1 baseline
+15.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.3 during vs -3.1 baseline
+21.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+100.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Florida 1984
1-1-1 • SRS 22.7
Biggest Improvement
Florida 1980
8-4 • 17.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Florida 1984
1-1-1 • SP Off 40.3
Best Defensive Season
Florida 1983
9-2-1 • SP Def 9.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Florida 1979
0-10-1 • SRS -2.7
Biggest Drop
Florida 1979
0-10-1 • -21.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida | 1984 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | #17 | #3 | 22.7 | 26.8 | 40.3 | 15.0 | +1.6 | -29.2% | Partial season |
| Florida | 1983 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | — | #6 | 21.1 | 28.0 | 36.2 | 9.1 | +7.7 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1982 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #16 | — | 13.4 | 17.3 | 34.2 | 18.3 | -2.1 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1981 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #17 | — | 15.5 | 16.8 | 30.1 | 14.3 | +0.4 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1980 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 15.1 | 15.9 | 29.4 | 14.3 | +17.8 | +62.1% | Season summary |
| Florida | 1979 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4.5% | — | — | -2.7 | -4.5 | 17.8 | 22.2 | -21.2 | -86.4% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1978 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | #18 | #6 | 18.5 | 20.2 | 34.6 | 15.2 | +4.1 | +20.1% | Partial season |
| Clemson | 1977 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | — | #19 | 14.4 | 18.3 | 28.0 | 10.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
Bill Battle
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.6
Avg SRS 16.4 • Peak SRS 28.3 • 7 seasons
Best finish #4 • Volatility 7.0
Open profile →Doug Dickey
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.0
Avg SRS 13.8 • Peak SRS 22.4 • 15 seasons
Best finish #2 • Volatility 7.2
Open profile →Al Onofrio
same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.8
Avg SRS 11.3 • Peak SRS 18.0 • 7 seasons
Best finish #17 • Volatility 6.5
Open profile →James Franklin
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.2
Avg SRS 13.6 • Peak SRS 25.6 • 15 seasons
Best finish #5 • Volatility 7.0
Open profile →Galen Hall
same defense-first identity • volatility within 1.3
Avg SRS 11.7 • Peak SRS 19.0 • 5 seasons
Best finish #5 • Volatility 6.0
Open profile →Bill Hollenback
avg SRS within 0.5 • volatility within 0.7
Avg SRS 14.3 • Peak SRS 23.9 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.0
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