Back to Coaches
Longevity CoachBalancedElite Peak

Coach Profile

Hugo Bezdek

1908-1929Arkansas, Oregon, Penn State

3 schools coached, anchored by Penn State.

Hugo Bezdek's coaching record is 105-46-13, highlighted by seasons at Penn State from 1908 to 1929.

Hugo Bezdek coached 19 seasons, won 68.0%, and posted an average SRS of 7.9. Best season: 1919 Penn State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
105-46-13
Career win rate
68.0%
Average SRS
7.9
Peak SRS
28.3

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
19
Career span
22 years
Best finish
Consistency
4.5

Primary school anchor

Penn State

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 95.7.

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.

Compare Hugo Bezdek
Overall record
105-46-13

164 countable games, 68.0% win rate.

Penn State record
65-30-11

12 countable seasons at Penn State.

Full-season record
105-46-13

19 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Pittsburgh
1-9-2

Keystone Classic games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
1-1

2 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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: Nov 28, 1929. 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.

Hugo Bezdek
EliteStrongAverageLean
Hugo Bezdek: 1916 OregonHugo Bezdek: 1918 Penn State
1908Actual season year • SRS range -17.1 to 28.31929

Active comparison point

Hugo Bezdek1919

Selected

1919 Penn State

Best seasonNew stop: Penn State

7-1 • SRS 28.3 • SP Overall

Win %

87.5%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

/

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Penn State

1918-192912 seasons

Avg SRS 11.7 • Win % 66.5%

Oregon

1916-19172 seasons

Avg SRS 4.3 • Win % 76.7%

Arkansas

1908-19125 seasons

Avg SRS 0.9 • Win % 68.6%

Longest tenure
Penn State • 12 seasons
Best tenure
Penn State • 11.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Oregon • 76.7%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Hugo Bezdek

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.

Penn State

1918-192965-30-11

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 11.7Win % 66.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.4 during vs 5.4 baseline

+0.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

11.7 during vs 17.5 baseline

-5.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Oregon

1916-191711-3-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 4.3Win % 76.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Arkansas

1908-191229-13-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 0.9Win % 68.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Penn State 1919

7-1SRS 28.3

Biggest Improvement

Arkansas 1909

7-032.9 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Arkansas 1908

5-4SRS -17.1

Biggest Drop

Oregon 1917

4-3-35.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Penn State1929963066.7%7.9+14.3+27.8%Season summary
Penn State1928935138.9%-6.4-15.8-33.3%Season summary
Penn State1927962172.2%9.4+7.1+16.7%Season summary
Penn State1926954055.6%2.3-6.0+5.6%Season summary
Penn State1925944150.0%8.3+0.1-15.0%Season summary
Penn State19241063165.0%8.2-6.2-7.2%Season summary
Penn State1923962172.2%14.4+2.6+13.1%Season summary
Penn State19221164159.1%11.8-10.0-30.9%Season summary
Penn State19211080290.0%21.8-1.0+1.1%Season summary
Penn State1920970288.9%22.8-5.5+1.4%Season summary
Penn State1919871087.5%28.3+50.0%Season summary
Penn State1918412137.5%-19.6%Season summary
Oregon1917743057.1%-13.6-35.7-36.6%Season summary
Oregon1916870193.8%22.1+27.6+53.8%Season summary
Arkansas19121046040.0%-5.5-5.7-32.2%Season summary
Arkansas1911962172.2%0.2-10.8-15.3%Season summary
Arkansas1910871087.5%11.0-4.8-12.5%Season summary
Arkansas19097700100.0%15.8+32.9+44.4%Season summary
Arkansas1908954055.6%-17.1Season summary

Similar coaches

Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.

Statistical comps

Clarence Spears

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.2

Balanced

Avg SRS 7.7 • Peak SRS 20.817 seasons

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 12.8

Open profile →

Francis Schmidt

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.3

Balanced

Avg SRS 8.2 • Peak SRS 25.121 seasons

Best finish #13 • Volatility 11.5

Open profile →

Buck Shaw

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 2.0

Balanced

Avg SRS 5.9 • Peak SRS 16.19 seasons

Best finish #0 • Volatility 11.0

Open profile →

Gilmour Dobie

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 1.5

Balanced

Avg SRS 6.3 • Peak SRS 29.822 seasons

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 14.1

Open profile →

Jesse Hawley

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 1.0

Balanced

Avg SRS 8.8 • Peak SRS 31.212 seasons

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.4

Open profile →

John Cooper

same balanced identity • avg SRS within 2.0

Balanced

Avg SRS 9.8 • Peak SRS 28.224 seasons

Best finish #2 • Volatility 10.9

Open profile →