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Joe Kuharich

1948-1962 • Notre Dame, San Francisco

2 schools coached, anchored by Notre Dame.

Joe Kuharich's coaching record is 42-37, highlighted by seasons at Notre Dame from 1948 to 1962.

Joe Kuharich coached 8 seasons, won 53.2%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1951 San Francisco. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
42-37
Career win rate
53.2%
Average SRS
8.7
Peak SRS
21.0

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
8
Career span
15 years
Best finish
#14
Consistency
23.6

Primary school anchor

Notre Dame

Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 86.7.

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.

Compare Joe Kuharich
Overall record
42-37

79 countable games, 53.2% win rate.

Notre Dame record
17-23

4 countable seasons at Notre Dame.

Full-season record
42-37

8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
1-15

16 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-12

12 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-5

5 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Navy
2-2

Navy-Notre Dame games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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: Dec 1, 1962. 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.

Joe Kuharich
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Joe Kuharich: 1959 Notre Dame
1948Actual season year • SRS range -11.0 to 21.01962

Active comparison point

Joe Kuharich • 1951

Selected

1951 San Francisco

Best season

9-0 • SRS 21.0 • SP Overall —

Win %

100.0%

YoY SRS

+11.6

SP Off / Def

— / —

Finish

#14

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

1-15

Games
16
Win rate
6.3%

Top 10

0-12

Games
12
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-5

Games
5
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results16
1962 Regular Week 7Notre DameNorthwestern#1L6-35
1962 Regular Week 6Notre DameMichigan State#10L7-31
1962 Regular Week 5Notre DameWisconsin#10L8-17
1962 Regular Week 4Notre DamePurdue#9L6-24
1961 Regular Week 6Notre DameMichigan State#1L7-17
1960 Regular Week 11Notre DameIowa#2L0-28
1960 Regular Week 9Notre DamePittsburgh#12L13-20
1960 Regular Week 8Notre DameNavy#4L7-14
1960 Regular Week 6Notre DameMichigan State#13L0-21
1960 Regular Week 4Notre DamePurdue#7L19-51
1959 Regular Week 12Notre DameUSC#13W16-6
1959 Regular Week 9Notre DameGeorgia Tech#15L10-14
1959 Regular Week 7Notre DameNorthwestern#2L24-30
1959 Regular Week 4Notre DamePurdue#7L7-28
1950 Regular Week 3San FranciscoStanford#6L7-55
1948 Regular Week 4San FranciscoNevada#10L7-26

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

1959-1962 • 4 seasons

Avg SRS 9.3 • Win % 42.5%

San Francisco

1948-1951 • 4 seasons

Avg SRS 8.2 • Win % 64.1%

Longest tenure
Notre Dame • 4 seasons
Best tenure
Notre Dame • 9.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
San Francisco • 64.1%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Joe Kuharich

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Raw avg SP Overall
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Percentile
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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

1959-1962 • 17-23

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 9.3Win % 42.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.3 during vs 6.4 baseline

-2.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

9.3 during vs 14.0 baseline

-4.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

25.0% during vs 80.0% baseline

-55.0%

San Francisco

1948-1951 • 25-14

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 8.2Win % 64.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

San Francisco 1951

9-0 • SRS 21.0

Biggest Improvement

San Francisco 1949

7-3 • 24.2 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

San Francisco 1948

2-7 • SRS -11.0

Biggest Drop

Notre Dame 1959

5-5 • -11.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Notre Dame19621055050.0%——12.9———+2.10.0%Season summary
Notre Dame19611055050.0%——10.8———+7.3+30.0%Season summary
Notre Dame19601028020.0%#17—3.5———-6.3-30.0%Season summary
Notre Dame19591055050.0%#16#179.8———-11.2-50.0%Season summary
San Francisco19519900100.0%—#1421.0———+11.6+36.4%Season summary
San Francisco19501174063.6%——9.4———-3.8-6.4%Season summary
San Francisco19491073070.0%——13.2———+24.2+47.8%Season summary
San Francisco1948927022.2%——-11.0—————Season summary

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