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- Games
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- Win rate
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William Alexander
1920-1944 • Georgia Tech
One defining program at Georgia Tech.
William Alexander's coaching record is 134-95-15, highlighted by seasons at Georgia Tech from 1920 to 1944.
William Alexander coached 25 seasons, won 58.0%, and posted an average SRS of 7.5. Best season: 1942 Georgia Tech. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 134-95-15
- Career win rate
- 58.0%
- Average SRS
- 7.5
- Peak SRS
- 21.9
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
- 25
- Career span
- 25 years
- Best finish
- #5
- Consistency
- 40.0
Primary school anchor
Georgia Tech
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 88.3.
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
- 134-95-15
- Georgia Tech record
- 134-95-15
- Full-season record
- 134-95-15
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-10
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-7
- Vs Georgia
- 7-10-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
244 countable games, 58.0% win rate.
25 countable seasons at Georgia Tech.
25 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
12 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate 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 1, 1945. 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.
William Alexander
EliteStrongAverageLean
1920Actual season year • SRS range -6.0 to 21.91944
Active comparison point
William Alexander • 1942
1942 Georgia Tech
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-2 • SRS 21.9 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
+20.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#5
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
2-10
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 16.7%
Top 5
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
View ranked game results15
| 1943 Regular Week 8 | Georgia Tech | Duke | #5 | L7-14 |
| 1943 Regular Week 7 | Georgia Tech | Navy | #5 | L14-28 |
| 1943 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #1 | L13-55 |
| 1943 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia Tech | Tulsa | #15 | W20-18 |
| 1942 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #4 | W13-6 |
| 1942 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia Tech | Texas | #11 | L7-14 |
| 1941 Regular Week 7 | Georgia Tech | Duke | #3 | L0-14 |
| 1941 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #7 | L0-20 |
| 1940 Regular Week 5 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #7 | L20-26 |
| 1939 Regular Week 8 | Georgia Tech | Duke | #6 | L6-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #3 | L14-17 |
| 1939 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia Tech | Missouri | #6 | W21-7 |
| 1938 Regular Week 5 | Georgia Tech | Duke | #4 | L0-6 |
| 1938 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Notre Dame | #2 | L6-14 |
| 1936 Regular Week 5 | Georgia Tech | Duke | #16 | L6-19 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Georgia Tech
1920-1944 • 25 seasons
Avg SRS 7.5 • Win % 58.0%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia Tech • 25 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia Tech • 7.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia Tech • 58.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
William Alexander
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.
Georgia Tech
1920-1944 • 134-95-15
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.5Win % 58.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 7.4 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 17.7 baseline
-10.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia Tech 1942
9-2 • SRS 21.9
Biggest Improvement
Georgia Tech 1942
9-2 • 20.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Georgia Tech 1930
2-6-1 • SRS -6.0
Biggest Drop
Georgia Tech 1929
3-6 • -17.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia Tech | 1944 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #13 | 16.6 | — | — | — | +0.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1943 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #13 | 15.7 | — | — | — | -6.2 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1942 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #5 | 21.9 | — | — | — | +20.0 | +48.5% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1941 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | +1.0 | +3.3% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1940 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 0.9 | — | — | — | -14.2 | -50.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1939 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #16 | 15.1 | — | — | — | +12.0 | +35.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1938 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 45.0% | — | — | 3.1 | — | — | — | -9.3 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1937 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 12.4 | — | — | — | +2.2 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1936 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 10.2 | — | — | — | +6.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1935 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 3.4 | — | — | — | +7.9 | +40.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1934 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -4.5 | — | — | — | -10.0 | -40.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1933 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | 0.0 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1932 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | +5.5 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1931 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 25.0% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | +6.0 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1930 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | -6.0 | — | — | — | -6.2 | -5.6% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1929 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | -17.2 | -66.7% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1928 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 17.4 | — | — | — | +9.2 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1927 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 85.0% | — | — | 8.2 | — | — | — | +5.6 | +40.6% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1926 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 2.6 | — | — | — | -4.3 | -27.8% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1925 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 6.9 | — | — | — | -0.4 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1924 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | +6.0 | +5.6% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1923 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 55.6% | — | — | 1.3 | — | — | — | -9.4 | -22.2% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1922 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 10.7 | — | — | — | -2.6 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1921 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 13.3 | — | — | — | -5.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 1920 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 18.9 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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