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's coaching record is 117-21, highlighted by seasons at Georgia from 2016 to 2025.
Kirby Smart coached 10 seasons, won 84.8%, 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
- 117-21
- Career win rate
- 84.8%
- 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.
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
- 117-21
- Georgia record
- 117-21
- Full-season record
- 105-19
- Vs AP Top 10
- 22-12
- Vs AP Top 5
- 10-8
- Vs Auburn
- 10-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 9-4
- CFP record
- 5-3
- National titles
- 2
138 countable games, 84.8% win rate.
10 countable seasons at Georgia.
9 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
34 games using AP ranking at game time.
18 games using AP ranking at game time.
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry games in this dataset.
13 scored postseason games in this dataset.
8 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 2, 2026. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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 % 84.8%
- Longest tenure
- Georgia • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Georgia • 20.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Georgia • 84.8%
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.
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 • 117-21
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 20.6Win % 84.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
11.7 during vs 9.8 baseline
+1.9
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
Lowest SRS 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 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | — | 16.0 | 24.1 | 37.0 | 14.8 | -0.3 | +7.1% | Completed-game fallback |
| Georgia | 2024 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #1 | #6 | 16.3 | 24.3 | 37.3 | 14.9 | -4.4 | -14.3% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2023 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | #1 | #4 | 20.7 | 31.2 | 41.5 | 12.2 | -6.3 | -7.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2022 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #3 | #1 | 27.0 | 35.3 | 37.2 | 3.7 | -0.9 | +6.7% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2021 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #5 | #1 | 27.9 | 32.0 | 41.4 | 10.3 | +9.0 | +13.3% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2020 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #4 | #7 | 18.9 | 19.1 | 30.8 | 12.1 | -2.8 | -5.7% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2019 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #3 | #4 | 21.7 | 26.8 | 34.2 | 10.0 | -4.6 | +7.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2018 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #3 | — | 26.3 | 32.9 | 45.9 | 14.2 | -0.7 | -8.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2017 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 86.7% | #15 | #2 | 27.0 | 26.7 | 39.6 | 15.4 | +22.3 | +25.1% | Season summary |
| Georgia | 2016 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #18 | — | 4.7 | 9.3 | 28.0 | 17.6 | — | — | Season summary |
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