Top 25
15-5
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 75.0%
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Marcus Freeman
2021-2025 • Notre Dame
One defining program at Notre Dame.
Marcus Freeman's coaching record is 43-12, highlighted by seasons at Notre Dame from 2021 to 2025.
Marcus Freeman coached 5 seasons, won 78.2%, and posted an average SRS of 18.2. Best season: 2025 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 43-12
- Career win rate
- 78.2%
- Average SRS
- 18.2
- Peak SRS
- 24.1
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 75.9
Primary school anchor
Notre Dame
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 91.3.
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
- 43-12
- Notre Dame record
- 43-12
- Full-season record
- 33-9
- Partial-season record
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 5-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-2
- Vs Navy
- 4-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-1
- CFP record
- 3-1
- National titles
- 0
55 countable games, 78.2% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Notre Dame.
3 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.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Navy-Notre Dame games in this dataset.
6 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: Nov 30, 2025. 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.
Marcus Freeman
EliteStrongAverageLean
2021Actual season year • SRS range 10.0 to 24.12025
Active comparison point
Marcus Freeman • 2025
2025 Notre Dame
Best season10-2 • SRS 24.1 • SP Overall 24.4
Win %
83.3%
YoY SRS
+2.1
SP Off / Def
40.0 / 16.3
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
5-3
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 62.5%
Top 5
2-2
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 50.0%
View ranked game results20
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
2021-2025 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 18.2 • Win % 78.2%
- Longest tenure
- Notre Dame • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 18.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Notre Dame • 78.2%
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.
Marcus Freeman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMarcus Freeman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Marcus Freeman
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 19.2
- Percentile
- 97th 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.
Notre Dame
2021-2025 • 43-12
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 18.2Win % 78.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.8 during vs 9.4 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
18.6 during vs 16.2 baseline
+2.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
19.7 during vs 18.7 baseline
+0.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
75.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
+15.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Notre Dame 2025
10-2 • SRS 24.1
Biggest Improvement
Notre Dame 2023
10-3 • 8.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Notre Dame 2025
10-2 • SP Off 40.0
Best Defensive Season
Notre Dame 2024
14-2 • SP Def 14.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Notre Dame 2022
9-4 • SRS 10.0
Biggest Drop
Notre Dame 2022
9-4 • -6.4 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 | 2025 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | — | 24.1 | 24.4 | 40.0 | 16.3 | +2.1 | -4.2% | Completed-game fallback |
| Notre Dame | 2024 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.5% | #7 | #2 | 22.0 | 23.9 | 38.6 | 14.1 | +3.7 | +10.6% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 2023 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #13 | #14 | 18.3 | 20.1 | 36.3 | 16.7 | +8.3 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 2022 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #5 | #18 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 30.5 | 21.4 | -6.4 | +69.2% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | #9 | #8 | 16.4 | 17.4 | 36.2 | 18.9 | — | — | Partial season |
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Open profile →Paul Brown
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Open profile →Cecil Isbell
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