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- Win rate
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Wallace Butts
1939-1960 • Georgia
One defining program at Georgia.
Wallace Butts coached 22 seasons, won 61.5%, and posted an average SRS of 9.6. Best season: 1942 Georgia. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 140-86-9
- Career win rate
- 61.5%
- Average SRS
- 9.6
- Peak SRS
- 26.0
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 24.7
Primary school anchor
Georgia
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 93.6.
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.
Wallace Butts
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1939Actual season year • SRS range -9.5 to 26.01960
Active comparison point
Wallace Butts • 1942
1942 Georgia
Best season11-1 • SRS 26.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+7.5
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#2
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
1-13
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 7.1%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results41
| 1960 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Auburn | #9 | L6-9 |
| 1960 Regular Week 9 | Georgia | Florida | #20 | L14-22 |
| 1960 Regular Week 2 | Georgia | Alabama | #5 | L6-21 |
| 1959 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Auburn | #12 | W14-13 |
| 1959 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | South Carolina | #11 | L14-30 |
| 1959 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | Missouri | #18 | W14-0 |
| 1958 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Auburn | #2 | L6-21 |
| 1958 Regular Week 9 | Georgia | Florida | #18 | L6-7 |
| 1958 Regular Week 3 | Georgia | Vanderbilt | #20 | L14-21 |
| 1957 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Auburn | #2 | L0-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 6 | Georgia | Navy | #16 | L14-27 |
| 1957 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | Michigan | #6 | L0-26 |
| 1957 Regular Week 2 | Georgia | Texas | #13 | L7-26 |
| 1956 Regular Week 9 | Georgia | Florida | #12 | L0-28 |
| 1956 Regular Week 6 | Georgia | Miami | #19 | T7-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 2 | Georgia | Vanderbilt | #15 | L0-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 11 | Georgia | Georgia Tech | #9 | L3-21 |
| 1955 Regular Week 9 | Georgia | Auburn | #12 | L13-16 |
| 1953 Regular Week 9 | Georgia | Auburn | #14 | L18-39 |
| 1953 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Alabama | #20 | L12-33 |
| 1953 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | LSU | #14 | L6-14 |
| 1953 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | Maryland | #3 | L13-40 |
| 1952 Regular Week 8 | Georgia | Alabama | #12 | L19-34 |
| 1952 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Florida | #17 | L0-30 |
| 1952 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | Maryland | #2 | L0-37 |
| 1951 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | Maryland | #5 | L7-43 |
| 1949 Regular Week 6 | Georgia | LSU | #16 | W7-0 |
| 1949 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | Kentucky | #13 | L0-25 |
| 1949 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | North Carolina | #13 | L14-21 |
| 1948 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | North Carolina | #3 | L14-21 |
| 1947 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Alabama | #8 | L7-17 |
| 1947 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | LSU | #17 | W35-19 |
| 1946 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | North Carolina | #9 | W20-10 |
| 1945 Regular Week 8 | Georgia | Alabama | #3 | L14-28 |
| 1945 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | LSU | #19 | L0-32 |
| 1945 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | Tulsa | #17 | W20-6 |
| 1942 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | UCLA | #13 | W9-0 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Georgia | Alabama | #7 | L14-27 |
| 1941 Regular Week 4 | Georgia | Ole Miss | #16 | T14-14 |
| 1940 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | Ole Miss | #17 | L14-28 |
| 1939 Regular Week 5 | Georgia | Holy Cross | #18 | L0-13 |
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
1939-1960 • 22 seasons
Avg SRS 9.6 • Win % 61.5%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia • 22 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia • 9.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia • 61.5%
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.
Wallace Butts
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
1939-1960 • 140-86-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.6Win % 61.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 5.8 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.6 during vs 5.7 baseline
+3.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
27.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+27.3%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia 1942
11-1 • SRS 26.0
Biggest Improvement
Georgia 1945
9-2 • 21.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Georgia 1943
6-4 • SRS -9.5
Biggest Drop
Georgia 1943
6-4 • -35.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia | 1960 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #13 | — | 13.5 | — | — | — | -4.8 | -30.9% |
| Georgia | 1959 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #5 | 18.3 | — | — | — | +6.0 | +50.9% |
| Georgia | 1958 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 12.3 | — | — | — | +5.8 | +10.0% |
| Georgia | 1957 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | +4.7 | -5.0% |
| Georgia | 1956 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | 1.8 | — | — | — | -5.1 | -5.0% |
| Georgia | 1955 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 6.9 | — | — | — | +1.7 | -25.0% |
| Georgia | 1954 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 5.2 | — | — | — | +5.0 | +37.7% |
| Georgia | 1953 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | -10.6 | -36.4% |
| Georgia | 1952 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +5.0 | +13.6% |
| Georgia | 1951 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.8 | — | — | — | +0.9 | -12.5% |
| Georgia | 1950 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 62.5% | — | — | 4.9 | — | — | — | +0.8 | +21.6% |
| Georgia | 1949 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 40.9% | — | — | 4.1 | — | — | — | -14.5 | -40.9% |
| Georgia | 1948 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #8 | 18.6 | — | — | — | +8.4 | +19.3% |
| Georgia | 1947 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | — | — | 10.2 | — | — | — | -13.8 | -37.5% |
| Georgia | 1946 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #3 | 24.0 | — | — | — | +1.3 | +18.2% |
| Georgia | 1945 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #18 | 22.7 | — | — | — | +21.0 | +11.8% |
| Georgia | 1944 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 1.7 | — | — | — | +11.2 | +10.0% |
| Georgia | 1943 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -9.5 | — | — | — | -35.5 | -31.7% |
| Georgia | 1942 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #2 | 26.0 | — | — | — | +7.5 | +5.3% |
| Georgia | 1941 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 86.4% | — | #14 | 18.5 | — | — | — | +15.4 | +31.4% |
| Georgia | 1940 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 3.1 | — | — | — | -1.5 | +9.6% |
| Georgia | 1939 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 4.6 | — | — | — | — | — |
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