Top 25
39-18
- Games
- 57
- Win rate
- 68.4%
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Kirby Smart
2016-2025 • Georgia
One defining program at Georgia.
Kirby Smart coached 10 seasons, won 84.7%, and posted an average SRS of 20.6. Best season: 2021 Georgia. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 105-19
- Career win rate
- 84.7%
- Average SRS
- 20.6
- Peak SRS
- 27.9
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 47.8
Primary school anchor
Georgia
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 95.3.
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.
Kirby Smart
EliteStrongAverageLean
2016Actual season year • SRS range 4.7 to 27.92025
Active comparison point
Kirby Smart • 2021
2021 Georgia
Best season14-1 • SRS 27.9 • SP Overall 32.0
Win %
93.3%
YoY SRS
+9.0
SP Off / Def
41.4 / 10.3
Finish
#1
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
22-12
- Games
- 34
- Win rate
- 64.7%
Top 5
10-8
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 55.6%
View ranked game results57
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
2016-2025 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 20.6 • Win % 84.7%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia • 20.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia • 84.7%
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.
Kirby Smart sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeKirby Smart sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Kirby Smart
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 26.2
- Percentile
- 99th 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
2016-2025 • 105-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 20.6Win % 84.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.5 during vs 9.8 baseline
+0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
20.6 during vs 16.8 baseline
+3.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
26.2 during vs 24.1 baseline
+2.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
70.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+10.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Georgia 2021
14-1 • SRS 27.9
Biggest Improvement
Georgia 2017
13-2 • 22.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Georgia 2018
11-3 • SP Off 45.9
Best Defensive Season
Georgia 2022
15-0 • SP Def 3.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Georgia 2016
8-5 • SRS 4.7
Biggest Drop
Georgia 2023
13-1 • -6.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 16.0 | 24.1 | 37.0 | 14.8 | -0.3 | — |
| Georgia | 2024 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #1 | #6 | 16.3 | 24.3 | 37.3 | 14.9 | -4.4 | -14.3% |
| Georgia | 2023 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | #1 | #4 | 20.7 | 31.2 | 41.5 | 12.2 | -6.3 | -7.1% |
| Georgia | 2022 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #3 | #1 | 27.0 | 35.3 | 37.2 | 3.7 | -0.9 | +6.7% |
| Georgia | 2021 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #5 | #1 | 27.9 | 32.0 | 41.4 | 10.3 | +9.0 | +13.3% |
| Georgia | 2020 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #4 | #7 | 18.9 | 19.1 | 30.8 | 12.1 | -2.8 | -5.7% |
| Georgia | 2019 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #3 | #4 | 21.7 | 26.8 | 34.2 | 10.0 | -4.6 | +7.1% |
| Georgia | 2018 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #3 | — | 26.3 | 32.9 | 45.9 | 14.2 | -0.7 | -8.1% |
| Georgia | 2017 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 86.7% | #15 | #2 | 27.0 | 26.7 | 39.6 | 15.4 | +22.3 | +25.1% |
| Georgia | 2016 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #18 | — | 4.7 | 9.3 | 28.0 | 17.6 | — | — |
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