Top 25
7-13
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 35.0%
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Coach Profile
Jim Leavitt
2000-2009 • South Florida
One defining program at South Florida.
Jim Leavitt's coaching record is 75-44, highlighted by seasons at South Florida from 2000 to 2009.
Jim Leavitt coached 10 seasons, won 63.0%, and posted an average SRS of 0.4. Best season: 2007 South Florida. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 75-44
- Career win rate
- 63.0%
- Average SRS
- 0.4
- Peak SRS
- 17.3
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 6.7
Primary school anchor
South Florida
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 78.8.
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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
- 75-44
- South Florida record
- 75-44
- Full-season record
- 75-44
- Vs AP Top 10
- 3-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-1
- Vs UCF
- 4-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
119 countable games, 63.0% win rate.
10 countable seasons at South Florida.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
War on I-4 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: Jan 2, 2010. 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.
Jim Leavitt
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Jim Leavitt: 2021 SMU
2000Actual season year • SRS range -26.3 to 17.32021
Active comparison point
Jim Leavitt • 2007
2007 South Florida
Best season9-4 • SRS 17.3 • SP Overall 15.8
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+12.0
SP Off / Def
33.1 / 16.5
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
3-4
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 42.9%
Top 5
1-1
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 50.0%
View ranked game results20
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
South Florida
2000-2009 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 0.4 • Win % 63.0%
- Longest tenure
- South Florida • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- South Florida • 0.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- South Florida • 63.0%
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.
Jim Leavitt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Leavitt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Leavitt
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 0.6
- Percentile
- 59th pct
Above average
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.
South Florida
2000-2009 • 75-44
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 0.4Win % 63.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
South Florida 2007
9-4 • SRS 17.3
Biggest Improvement
South Florida 2001
8-3 • 28.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
South Florida 2002
9-2 • SP Off 35.2
Best Defensive Season
South Florida 2006
9-4 • SP Def 12.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
South Florida 2000
7-4 • SRS -26.3
Biggest Drop
South Florida 2008
8-5 • -13.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| SMU | 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 6.1 | 8.9 | 36.7 | 27.1 | — | — | Provisional placeholder |
| South Florida | 2009 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 2.9 | 2.8 | 26.9 | 22.5 | -0.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2008 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #19 | — | 3.7 | 8.0 | 28.8 | 20.9 | -13.6 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2007 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 17.3 | 15.8 | 33.1 | 16.5 | +12.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2006 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 5.3 | 10.7 | 25.4 | 12.8 | -2.8 | +19.2% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2005 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 8.1 | 2.3 | 22.4 | 20.1 | +18.5 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2004 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -10.4 | -9.7 | 32.3 | 39.2 | -5.2 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2003 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -5.2 | -5.6 | 24.0 | 29.5 | -11.8 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2002 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 6.6 | 15.2 | 35.2 | 21.3 | +4.9 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2001 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 1.7 | 2.2 | 30.7 | 29.7 | +28.0 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| South Florida | 2000 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -26.3 | -35.3 | 9.6 | 39.8 | — | — | 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
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Open profile →Justin Fuente
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Best finish #16 • Volatility 9.4
Open profile →Cal Stoll
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS 0.2 • Peak SRS 9.9 • 10 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.0
Open profile →Thomas Cahill
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.6
Avg SRS -1.2 • Peak SRS 14.6 • 8 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.7
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same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.4
Avg SRS -0.0 • Peak SRS 15.9 • 13 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.4
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