Top 25
6-13
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 31.6%
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Coach Profile
Chan Gailey
2002-2007 • Georgia Tech
One defining program at Georgia Tech.
Chan Gailey's coaching record is 44-32, highlighted by seasons at Georgia Tech from 2002 to 2007.
Chan Gailey coached 6 seasons, won 57.9%, and posted an average SRS of 6.3. Best season: 2004 Georgia Tech. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 44-32
- Career win rate
- 57.9%
- Average SRS
- 6.3
- Peak SRS
- 9.4
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 97.2
Primary school anchor
Georgia Tech
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 59.8.
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
- 44-32
- Georgia Tech record
- 44-32
- Full-season record
- 37-27
- Partial-season record
- 7-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-4
- Vs Georgia
- 0-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
76 countable games, 57.9% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Georgia Tech.
5 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.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 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: Dec 31, 2007. 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.
Chan Gailey
EliteStrongAverageLean
2002Actual season year • SRS range 3.8 to 9.42007
Active comparison point
Chan Gailey • 2004
2004 Georgia Tech
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-5 • SRS 9.4 • SP Overall 12.4
Win %
58.3%
YoY SRS
+2.5
SP Off / Def
30.4 / 19.1
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
2-7
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 22.2%
Top 5
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
View ranked game results19
| 2006 Regular Week 14 | Georgia Tech | Wake Forest | #16 | L6-9 |
| 2006 Regular Week 8 | Georgia Tech | Clemson | #12 | L7-31 |
| 2006 Regular Week 5 | Georgia Tech | Virginia Tech | #11 | W38-27 |
| 2006 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia Tech | West Virginia | #10 | L35-38 |
| 2005 Regular Week 13 | Georgia Tech | Georgia | #13 | L7-14 |
| 2005 Regular Week 12 | Georgia Tech | Miami | #3 | W14-10 |
| 2005 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Virginia Tech | #4 | L7-51 |
| 2004 Regular Week 14 | Georgia Tech | Georgia | #8 | L13-19 |
| 2004 Regular Week 13 | Georgia Tech | Virginia | #18 | L10-30 |
| 2004 Regular Week 10 | Georgia Tech | Virginia Tech | #22 | L20-34 |
| 2004 Regular Week 7 | Georgia Tech | Maryland | #23 | W20-7 |
| 2004 Regular Week 6 | Georgia Tech | Miami | #4 | L3-27 |
| 2004 Regular Week 3 | Georgia Tech | Clemson | #20 | W28-24 |
| 2003 Regular Week 15 | Georgia Tech | Georgia | #5 | L17-34 |
| 2003 Regular Week 4 | Georgia Tech | Florida State | #10 | L13-14 |
| 2003 Regular Week 3 | Georgia Tech | Auburn | #17 | W17-3 |
| 2002 Regular Week 15 | Georgia Tech | Georgia | #5 | L7-51 |
| 2002 Regular Week 12 | Georgia Tech | Florida State | #17 | L13-21 |
| 2002 Regular Week 11 | Georgia Tech | NC State | #10 | W24-17 |
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
2002-2007 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 6.3 • Win % 57.9%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia Tech • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia Tech • 6.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia Tech • 57.9%
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.
Chan Gailey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChan Gailey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chan Gailey
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.0
- Percentile
- 85th 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.
Georgia Tech
2002-2007 • 44-32
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 6.3Win % 57.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.4 during vs 8.2 baseline
-0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
6.9 during vs 11.8 baseline
-4.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.2 during vs 13.1 baseline
-2.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-100.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia Tech 2004
7-5 • SRS 9.4
Biggest Improvement
Georgia Tech 2004
7-5 • 2.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Georgia Tech 2004
7-5 • SP Off 30.4
Best Defensive Season
Georgia Tech 2006
9-5 • SP Def 13.2
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Georgia Tech 2007
7-5 • SRS 3.8
Biggest Drop
Georgia Tech 2005
7-5 • -4.0 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 | 2007 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 3.8 | 8.7 | 28.1 | 21.3 | -3.4 | -5.9% | Partial season |
| Georgia Tech | 2006 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 7.2 | 13.5 | 26.2 | 13.2 | +1.8 | +5.9% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 5.4 | 6.9 | 22.7 | 15.8 | -4.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 2004 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 9.4 | 12.4 | 30.4 | 19.1 | +2.5 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 2003 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.9 | 10.1 | 29.5 | 20.3 | +1.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia Tech | 2002 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 5.4 | 8.2 | 29.0 | 22.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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