Top 25
4-7
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 36.4%
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Randy Shannon
2007-2017 • Florida, Miami
2 schools coached, anchored by Miami.
Randy Shannon's coaching record is 29-25, highlighted by seasons at Miami from 2007 to 2017.
Randy Shannon coached 5 seasons, won 53.7%, and posted an average SRS of 5.4. Best season: 2009 Miami. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 29-25
- Career win rate
- 53.7%
- Average SRS
- 5.4
- Peak SRS
- 15.3
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
- 5
- Career span
- 11 years
- Best finish
- #19
- Consistency
- 47.5
Primary school anchor
Miami
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 74.2.
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
- 29-25
- Miami record
- 28-22
- Full-season record
- 21-17
- Partial-season record
- 8-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Florida State
- 2-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
54 countable games, 53.7% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Miami.
3 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.
Florida State-Miami games in this dataset.
2 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.
Randy Shannon
EliteStrongAverageLean
Randy Shannon: 2017 Florida
2007Actual season year • SRS range -3.3 to 15.32017
Active comparison point
Randy Shannon • 2009
2009 Miami
Best season9-4 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall 25.0
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+9.2
SP Off / Def
38.5 / 15.1
Finish
#19
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
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results11
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
2017-2017 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -0.9 • Win % 25.0%
Miami
2007-2010 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 7.0 • Win % 56.0%
- Longest tenure
- Miami • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Miami • 7.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Miami • 56.0%
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.
Randy Shannon sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRandy Shannon sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Randy Shannon
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 14.2
- Percentile
- 93th 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
2017-2017 • 1-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -0.9Win % 25.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Miami
2007-2010 • 28-22
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.0Win % 56.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 9.6 baseline
-2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 16.3 baseline
-10.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.0 during vs 23.7 baseline
-10.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 80.0% baseline
-46.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Miami 2009
9-4 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
Miami 2008
7-6 • 9.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Miami 2009
9-4 • SP Off 38.5
Best Defensive Season
Miami 2010
7-5 • SP Def 14.0
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Miami 2007
5-7 • SRS -3.3
Biggest Drop
Florida 2017
1-3 • -10.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Florida | 2017 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.0% | #17 | — | -0.9 | 10.1 | 30.8 | 22.4 | -10.7 | -33.3% | Partial season |
| Miami | 2010 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #13 | — | 9.8 | 21.6 | 34.9 | 14.0 | -5.5 | -10.9% | Partial season |
| Miami | 2009 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #19 | 15.3 | 25.0 | 38.5 | 15.1 | +9.2 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Miami | 2008 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.1 | 10.9 | 26.8 | 17.9 | +9.4 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Miami | 2007 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -3.3 | 3.2 | 25.0 | 19.9 | — | — | Season summary |
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