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- Win rate
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Terry Brennan
1954-1958 • Notre Dame
One defining program at Notre Dame.
Terry Brennan coached 5 seasons, won 64.0%, and posted an average SRS of 14.0. Best season: 1954 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 32-18
- Career win rate
- 64.0%
- Average SRS
- 14.0
- Peak SRS
- 21.7
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- #4
- Consistency
- 26.1
Primary school anchor
Notre Dame
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 87.8.
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 Brennan
EliteStrongAverageLean
1954Actual season year • SRS range -2.6 to 21.71958
Active comparison point
Terry Brennan • 1954
1954 Notre Dame
Best season9-1 • SRS 21.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#4
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
3-10
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 23.1%
Top 5
2-7
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 22.2%
View ranked game results26
| 1958 Regular Week 11 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #4 | L21-31 |
| 1958 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | North Carolina | #17 | W34-24 |
| 1958 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #14 | L26-29 |
| 1958 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #10 | L22-29 |
| 1958 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Army | #1 | L2-14 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | SMU | #18 | W14-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 11 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #6 | L13-21 |
| 1957 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | Oklahoma | #6 | W7-0 |
| 1957 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #4 | L6-34 |
| 1957 Regular Week 8 | Notre Dame | Navy | #7 | L6-20 |
| 1957 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Army | #19 | W23-21 |
| 1956 Regular Week 11 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #3 | L8-48 |
| 1956 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #16 | L13-26 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Notre Dame | Navy | #12 | L7-33 |
| 1956 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Oklahoma | #1 | L0-40 |
| 1956 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #1 | L14-47 |
| 1956 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #17 | L14-28 |
| 1956 Regular Week 2 | Notre Dame | SMU | #5 | L13-19 |
| 1955 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Navy | #4 | W21-7 |
| 1955 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #13 | L7-21 |
| 1955 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | Miami | #15 | W14-0 |
| 1954 Regular Week 11 | Notre Dame | USC | #17 | W23-17 |
| 1954 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #19 | W34-18 |
| 1954 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Navy | #15 | W6-0 |
| 1954 Regular Week 3 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #19 | L14-27 |
| 1954 Regular Week 2 | Notre Dame | Texas | #4 | W21-0 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Notre Dame
1954-1958 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 14.0 • Win % 64.0%
- Longest tenure
- Notre Dame • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 14.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Notre Dame • 64.0%
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 edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Terry Brennan
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.
Notre Dame
1954-1958 • 32-18
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.0Win % 64.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 7.4 baseline
-1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.0 during vs 20.1 baseline
-6.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
80.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Notre Dame 1954
9-1 • SRS 21.7
Biggest Improvement
Notre Dame 1957
7-3 • 20.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Notre Dame 1956
2-8 • SRS -2.6
Biggest Drop
Notre Dame 1956
2-8 • -19.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Notre Dame | 1958 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #3 | #17 | 16.7 | — | — | — | -0.7 | -10.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1957 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | #18 | #10 | 17.4 | — | — | — | +20.0 | +50.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1956 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | #3 | — | -2.6 | — | — | — | -19.4 | -60.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1955 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #6 | #9 | 16.8 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -10.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1954 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | #1 | #4 | 21.7 | — | — | — | — | — |
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