Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Hugh Devore
1945-1963 • New York University, Notre Dame
2 schools coached, anchored by New York University.
Hugh Devore coached 5 seasons, won 34.5%, and posted an average SRS of -11.6. Best season: 1945 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 13-26-3
- Career win rate
- 34.5%
- Average SRS
- -11.6
- Peak SRS
- 23.5
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
- 19 years
- Best finish
- #9
- Consistency
- 0.2
Primary school anchor
New York University
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 90.4.
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
- 13-26-3
- New York University record
- 4-17-2
- Full-season record
- 13-26-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
42 countable games, 34.5% win rate.
3 countable seasons at New York University.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
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.
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, 1963. 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.
Hugh Devore
EliteStrongAverageLean
Hugh Devore: 1950 New York UniversityHugh Devore: 1963 Notre Dame
1945Actual season year • SRS range -30.2 to 23.51963
Active comparison point
Hugh Devore • 1945
1945 Notre Dame
Best season7-2-1 • SRS 23.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#9
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
| 1963 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #4 | L7-12 |
| 1963 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #6 | L7-27 |
| 1963 Regular Week 8 | Notre Dame | Navy | #4 | L14-35 |
| 1963 Regular Week 3 | Notre Dame | Wisconsin | #4 | L9-14 |
| 1951 Regular Week 3 | New York University | Princeton | #13 | L20-54 |
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
1963-1963 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 6.8 • Win % 22.2%
New York University
1950-1952 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -29.5 • Win % 21.7%
Notre Dame
1945-1945 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 23.5 • Win % 75.0%
- Longest tenure
- New York University • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 23.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Notre Dame • 75.0%
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.
Hugh Devore
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
1963-1963 • 2-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 6.8Win % 22.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 4.6 baseline
-2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
6.8 during vs 10.7 baseline
-3.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
New York University
1950-1952 • 4-17-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -29.5Win % 21.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Notre Dame
1945-1945 • 7-2-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.5Win % 75.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 7.8 baseline
-0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
23.5 during vs 21.0 baseline
+2.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Notre Dame 1945
7-2-1 • SRS 23.5
Biggest Improvement
Notre Dame 1963
2-7 • 36.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
New York University 1950
1-5-1 • SRS -30.2
Biggest Drop
New York University 1950
1-5-1 • -53.7 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 | 1963 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | 6.8 | — | — | — | +36.2 | -9.0% | Season summary |
| New York University | 1952 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 31.3% | — | — | -29.4 | — | — | — | -0.5 | +18.8% | Season summary |
| New York University | 1951 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12.5% | — | — | -28.9 | — | — | — | +1.3 | -8.9% | Season summary |
| New York University | 1950 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 21.4% | — | — | -30.2 | — | — | — | -53.7 | -53.6% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1945 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | #9 | 23.5 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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