Coach Profile
1922-1933 • Iowa State, Ohio State
2 schools coached, anchored by Ohio State.
Sam Willaman's coaching record is 40-25-8, highlighted by seasons at Ohio State from 1922 to 1933.
Sam Willaman coached 9 seasons, won 60.3%, and posted an average SRS of 9.0. Best season: 1930 Ohio State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Ohio State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 75.3.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
73 countable games, 60.3% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Ohio State.
9 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
The Game games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
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 25, 1933. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Active comparison point
5-2-1 • SRS 15.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
68.8%
YoY SRS
+11.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#0
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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.
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Ohio State
1929-1933 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 12.7 • Win % 69.5%
Iowa State
1922-1925 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.3 • Win % 48.4%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sam Willaman
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1929-1933 • 26-10-5
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.2 during vs 4.4 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.7 during vs 8.8 baseline
+3.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+100.0%
1922-1925 • 14-15-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
High Points
Best Season
Ohio State 1930
5-2-1 • SRS 15.8
Biggest Improvement
Ohio State 1930
5-2-1 • 11.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Iowa State 1922
2-6 • SRS -0.2
Biggest Drop
Ohio State 1931
6-3 • -2.6 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ohio State | 1933 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | #0 | #0 | 15.3 | — | — | — | +0.3 | +18.8% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1932 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 68.8% | #0 | #0 | 15.0 | — | — | — | +1.8 | +2.1% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1931 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | #0 | #0 | 13.2 | — | — | — | -2.6 | -2.1% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1930 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 68.8% | #0 | #0 | 15.8 | — | — | — | +11.8 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1929 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | #0 | #0 | 4.0 | — | — | — | -1.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Iowa State | 1925 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | — | — | 5.7 | — | — | — | -1.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Iowa State | 1924 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | — | — | 7.0 | — | — | — | +2.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Iowa State | 1923 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | — | — | 4.8 | — | — | — | +5.0 | +31.3% | Season summary |
| Iowa State | 1922 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -0.2 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.6
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.4
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