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7-13
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 35.0%
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Jim Donnan
1996-2000 • Georgia
One defining program at Georgia.
Jim Donnan's coaching record is 40-19, highlighted by seasons at Georgia from 1996 to 2000.
Jim Donnan coached 5 seasons, won 67.8%, and posted an average SRS of 9.3. Best season: 1997 Georgia. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 40-19
- Career win rate
- 67.8%
- Average SRS
- 9.3
- Peak SRS
- 18.5
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
- 5 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 68.1
Primary school anchor
Georgia
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 81.3.
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
- 40-19
- Georgia record
- 40-19
- Full-season record
- 40-19
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-8
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Auburn
- 2-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 4-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
59 countable games, 67.8% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Georgia.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry games in this dataset.
4 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 24, 2000. 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 Donnan
EliteStrongAverageLean
1996Actual season year • SRS range 2.5 to 18.52000
Active comparison point
Jim Donnan • 1997
1997 Georgia
Best seasonBiggest improvement10-2 • SRS 18.5 • SP Overall 20.8
Win %
83.3%
YoY SRS
+16.0
SP Off / Def
39.0 / 19.0
Finish
#10
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
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results20
| 2000 Regular Week 14 | Georgia | Georgia Tech | #18 | L15-27 |
| 2000 Regular Week 12 | Georgia | Auburn | #22 | L26-29 |
| 2000 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Florida | #8 | L23-34 |
| 2000 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Tennessee | #21 | W21-10 |
| 1999 Regular Week 14 | Georgia | Georgia Tech | #20 | L48-51 |
| 1999 Regular Week 13 | Georgia | Ole Miss | #16 | W20-17 |
| 1999 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Florida | #5 | L14-30 |
| 1999 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Tennessee | #6 | L20-37 |
| 1999 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | Purdue | #25 | W28-25 |
| 1998 Regular Week 14 | Georgia | Georgia Tech | #12 | L19-21 |
| 1998 Regular Week 10 | Georgia | Florida | #5 | L7-38 |
| 1998 Regular Week 7 | Georgia | Tennessee | #3 | L3-22 |
| 1998 Regular Week 6 | Georgia | LSU | #11 | W28-27 |
| 1998 Postseason Week 1 | Georgia | Virginia | #18 | W35-33 |
| 1997 Regular Week 13 | Georgia | Auburn | #16 | L34-45 |
| 1997 Regular Week 11 | Georgia | Florida | #6 | W37-17 |
| 1997 Regular Week 8 | Georgia | Tennessee | #9 | L13-38 |
| 1996 Regular Week 13 | Georgia | Auburn | #20 | W56-49 |
| 1996 Regular Week 11 | Georgia | Florida | #1 | L7-47 |
| 1996 Regular Week 8 | Georgia | Tennessee | #7 | L17-29 |
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
1996-2000 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 9.3 • Win % 67.8%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia • 9.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia • 67.8%
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 Donnan sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Donnan sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Donnan
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.9
- Percentile
- 89th 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
1996-2000 • 40-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.3Win % 67.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 7.2 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 8.9 baseline
+0.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.9 during vs 12.1 baseline
-0.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
80.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia 1997
10-2 • SRS 18.5
Biggest Improvement
Georgia 1997
10-2 • 16.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Georgia 1997
10-2 • SP Off 39.0
Best Defensive Season
Georgia 1997
10-2 • SP Def 19.0
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Georgia 1996
5-6 • SRS 2.5
Biggest Drop
Georgia 1998
9-3 • -11.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia | 2000 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #10 | #20 | 12.2 | 16.0 | 35.0 | 20.5 | +5.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 1999 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #14 | #16 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 35.4 | 31.1 | -0.8 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 1998 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #19 | #14 | 7.1 | 10.3 | 30.4 | 21.1 | -11.4 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 1997 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #10 | 18.5 | 20.8 | 39.0 | 19.0 | +16.0 | +37.9% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 1996 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 2.5 | 6.0 | 29.3 | 24.8 | — | — | 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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same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS 9.4 • Peak SRS 15.7 • 4 seasons
Best finish #12 • Volatility 5.0
Open profile →Floyd Gass
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.2
Avg SRS 8.2 • Peak SRS 16.5 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →Joey McGuire
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.5
Avg SRS 10.8 • Peak SRS 22.3 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.0
Open profile →Kalen DeBoer
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS 9.6 • Peak SRS 18.1 • 6 seasons
Best finish #2 • Volatility 8.4
Open profile →Chuck Amato
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.6
Avg SRS 6.7 • Peak SRS 16.1 • 7 seasons
Best finish #12 • Volatility 6.1
Open profile →Ray Goff
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.8
Avg SRS 6.7 • Peak SRS 17.0 • 7 seasons
Best finish #8 • Volatility 6.4
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