Top 25
7-16
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 30.4%
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Terry Bowden
1993-2023 • Akron, Auburn, UL Monroe
3 schools coached, anchored by Akron.
Terry Bowden's coaching record is 92-95-1, highlighted by seasons at Akron from 1993 to 2023.
Terry Bowden coached 16 seasons, won 49.2%, and posted an average SRS of -3.9. Best season: 1997 Auburn. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 92-95-1
- Career win rate
- 49.2%
- Average SRS
- -3.9
- Peak SRS
- 17.1
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
- 16
- Career span
- 31 years
- Best finish
- #4
- Consistency
- 3.2
Primary school anchor
Akron
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 78.4.
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
- 92-95-1
- Akron record
- 35-52
- Full-season record
- 91-90-1
- Partial-season record
- 1-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 4-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-4
- Vs Kent State
- 5-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
188 countable games, 49.2% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Akron.
15 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.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
Akron-Kent State games in this dataset.
6 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 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: Nov 25, 2023. 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.
Terry Bowden
EliteStrongAverageLean
Terry Bowden: 2012 AkronTerry Bowden: 2021 UL Monroe
1993Actual season year • SRS range -21.6 to 17.12023
Active comparison point
Terry Bowden • 1997
1997 Auburn
Best seasonBiggest improvement10-3 • SRS 17.1 • SP Overall 22.5
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+9.4
SP Off / Def
38.0 / 16.9
Finish
#11
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
4-7
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 36.4%
Top 5
2-4
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 33.3%
View ranked game results23
| 2023 Regular Week 12 | UL Monroe | Ole Miss | #13 | L3-35 |
| 2022 Regular Week 3 | UL Monroe | Alabama | #2 | L7-63 |
| 2021 Regular Week 13 | UL Monroe | Louisiana | #23 | L16-21 |
| 2021 Regular Week 5 | UL Monroe | Coastal Carolina | #16 | L6-59 |
| 2016 Regular Week 7 | Akron | Western Michigan | #24 | L0-41 |
| 2016 Regular Week 2 | Akron | Wisconsin | #10 | L10-54 |
| 2013 Regular Week 7 | Akron | Northern Illinois | #23 | L20-27 |
| 2013 Regular Week 3 | Akron | Michigan | #11 | L24-28 |
| 1997 Regular Week 13 | Auburn | Georgia | #7 | W45-34 |
| 1997 Regular Week 9 | Auburn | Florida | #7 | L10-24 |
| 1997 Regular Week 5 | Auburn | LSU | #10 | W31-28 |
| 1997 Postseason Week 1 | Auburn | Tennessee | #7 | L29-30 |
| 1996 Regular Week 14 | Auburn | Alabama | #15 | L23-24 |
| 1996 Regular Week 9 | Auburn | Florida | #1 | L10-51 |
| 1996 Regular Week 5 | Auburn | LSU | #21 | L15-19 |
| 1996 Postseason Week 1 | Auburn | Army | #25 | W32-29 |
| 1995 Regular Week 13 | Auburn | Alabama | #17 | W31-27 |
| 1995 Regular Week 8 | Auburn | Florida | #3 | L38-49 |
| 1995 Postseason Week 1 | Auburn | Penn State | #13 | L14-43 |
| 1994 Regular Week 13 | Auburn | Alabama | #4 | L14-21 |
| 1994 Regular Week 8 | Auburn | Florida | #1 | W36-33 |
| 1993 Regular Week 13 | Auburn | Alabama | #11 | W22-14 |
| 1993 Regular Week 8 | Auburn | Florida | #4 | W38-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
UL Monroe
2021-2023 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -14.6 • Win % 27.8%
Akron
2012-2018 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -12.8 • Win % 40.2%
Auburn
1993-1998 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 11.7 • Win % 73.1%
- Longest tenure
- Akron • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Auburn • 11.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Auburn • 73.1%
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.
Terry Bowden sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTerry Bowden sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Terry Bowden
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -3.0
- Percentile
- 47th pct
Mixed
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.
UL Monroe
2021-2023 • 10-26
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -14.6Win % 27.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.3 during vs 3.8 baseline
-0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-14.6 during vs -15.3 baseline
+0.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-19.2 during vs -14.8 baseline
-4.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Akron
2012-2018 • 35-52
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -12.8Win % 40.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 2.8 baseline
+2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-12.8 during vs -19.8 baseline
+7.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-12.5 during vs -19.9 baseline
+7.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-100.0%
Auburn
1993-1998 • 47-17-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.7Win % 73.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.2 during vs 7.6 baseline
+1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
13.6 during vs 9.7 baseline
+3.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.9 during vs 13.5 baseline
+4.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Auburn 1997
10-3 • SRS 17.1
Biggest Improvement
Auburn 1997
10-3 • 9.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Auburn 1995
8-4 • SP Off 41.5
Best Defensive Season
Auburn 1997
10-3 • SP Def 16.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Akron 2012
1-11 • SRS -21.6
Biggest Drop
Akron 2012
1-11 • -24.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| UL Monroe | 2023 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -17.1 | -21.6 | 17.6 | 37.5 | -4.9 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| UL Monroe | 2022 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.2 | -15.7 | 23.2 | 39.0 | +2.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| UL Monroe | 2021 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -14.4 | -20.3 | 15.6 | 35.1 | +0.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2018 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -14.5 | -19.3 | 11.9 | 31.0 | -5.6 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2017 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -8.9 | -17.6 | 24.1 | 39.6 | +2.7 | +8.3% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2016 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -11.6 | -5.6 | 22.3 | 28.2 | -6.2 | -19.9% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2015 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -5.4 | -0.8 | 24.8 | 25.9 | +8.6 | +19.9% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2014 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -14.0 | -9.4 | 18.9 | 28.1 | -0.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2013 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -13.5 | -15.3 | 17.9 | 30.9 | +8.1 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Akron | 2012 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -21.6 | -19.5 | 20.0 | 39.0 | -24.1 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1998 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 16.7% | #25 | — | 2.5 | 7.4 | 24.9 | 18.4 | -14.6 | -60.3% | Partial season |
| Auburn | 1997 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #16 | #11 | 17.1 | 22.5 | 38.0 | 16.9 | +9.4 | +10.3% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1996 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #17 | #24 | 7.7 | 11.2 | 39.2 | 30.1 | -4.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1995 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #6 | #22 | 11.7 | 16.1 | 41.5 | 28.7 | -4.5 | -19.7% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1994 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 86.4% | #11 | #9 | 16.2 | 19.5 | 40.0 | 23.0 | +1.1 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Auburn | 1993 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #4 | 15.1 | 20.0 | 39.4 | 21.3 | — | — | Season summary |
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