Top 25
7-2
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 77.8%
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Curt Cignetti
2022-2025 • Indiana, James Madison
2 schools coached, anchored by Indiana.
Curt Cignetti's coaching record is 46-6, highlighted by seasons at Indiana from 2022 to 2025.
Curt Cignetti coached 4 seasons, won 88.5%, and posted an average SRS of 14.5. Best season: 2025 Indiana. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 46-6
- Career win rate
- 88.5%
- Average SRS
- 14.5
- Peak SRS
- 27.3
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 23.5
Primary school anchor
Indiana
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 94.9.
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
- 46-6
- Indiana record
- 27-2
- Full-season record
- 19-5
- Partial-season record
- 11-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 6-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 4-2
- Vs Purdue
- 2-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-1
- CFP record
- 3-1
- National titles
- 1
52 countable games, 88.5% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Indiana.
2 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
Indiana-Purdue games in this dataset.
4 scored postseason games in this dataset.
4 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 20, 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.
Curt Cignetti
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Curt Cignetti: 2024 Indiana
2022Actual season year • SRS range 5.0 to 27.32025
Active comparison point
Curt Cignetti • 2025
2025 Indiana
Best season16-0 • SRS 27.3 • SP Overall 32.4
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+9.6
SP Off / Def
40.8 / 9.9
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.
Top 10
6-2
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 75.0%
Top 5
4-2
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 66.7%
View ranked game results9
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Indiana
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 22.5 • Win % 93.1%
James Madison
2022-2023 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 6.5 • Win % 82.6%
- Longest tenure
- Indiana • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Indiana • 22.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Indiana • 93.1%
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.
Curt Cignetti sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeCurt Cignetti sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Curt Cignetti
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- Raw avg SP Overall
- 17.7
- Percentile
- 96th 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.
Indiana
2024-2025 • 27-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 22.5Win % 93.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
13.5 during vs 4.6 baseline
+8.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
22.5 during vs 1.2 baseline
+21.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
26.3 during vs 0.3 baseline
+25.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
James Madison
2022-2023 • 19-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 6.5Win % 82.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Indiana 2025
16-0 • SRS 27.3
Biggest Improvement
Indiana 2024
11-2 • 9.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Indiana 2025
16-0 • SP Off 40.8
Best Defensive Season
Indiana 2025
16-0 • SP Def 9.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
James Madison 2022
8-3 • SRS 5.0
Biggest Drop
James Madison 2023
11-1 • 3.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Indiana | 2025 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 27.3 | 32.4 | 40.8 | 9.9 | +9.6 | +15.4% | Completed-game fallback |
| Indiana | 2024 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #10 | 17.7 | 20.1 | 35.0 | 16.4 | +9.7 | -7.0% | Season summary |
| James Madison | 2023 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | — | 8.0 | 11.8 | 34.6 | 23.7 | +3.0 | +18.9% | Partial season |
| James Madison | 2022 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 5.0 | 6.5 | 31.3 | 23.6 | — | — | 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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Avg SRS 13.0 • Peak SRS 24.2 • 3 seasons
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Open profile →Gary Gibbs
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Best finish #16 • Volatility 7.9
Open profile →Jonas Ingram
same balanced identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS 14.3 • Peak SRS 20.8 • 2 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.5
Open profile →Gus Welch
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.5
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