Top 25
11-6-2
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 63.2%
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Coach Profile
Frank Leahy
1939-1953 • Boston College, Notre Dame
2 schools coached, anchored by Notre Dame.
Frank Leahy's coaching record is 107-13-9, highlighted by seasons at Notre Dame from 1939 to 1953.
Frank Leahy coached 13 seasons, won 86.4%, and posted an average SRS of 22.6. Best season: 1946 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 107-13-9
- Career win rate
- 86.4%
- Average SRS
- 22.6
- Peak SRS
- 38.3
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
- 13
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 19.8
Primary school anchor
Notre Dame
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 99.5.
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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
- 107-13-9
- Notre Dame record
- 63-8-6
- Full-season record
- 107-13-9
- Vs AP Top 10
- 7-3-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-3
- Vs Navy
- 11-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 4
129 countable games, 86.4% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Notre Dame.
13 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
12 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
Navy-Notre Dame games in this dataset.
2 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: Dec 5, 1953. 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.
Frank Leahy
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Frank Leahy: 1941 Notre Dame
1939Actual season year • SRS range 3.0 to 38.31953
Active comparison point
Frank Leahy • 1946
1946 Notre Dame
Best season8-0-1 • SRS 38.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
94.4%
YoY SRS
+4.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#1
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
7-3-2
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 66.7%
Top 5
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
View ranked game results19
| 1953 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #9 | T14-14 |
| 1953 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Georgia Tech | #8 | W27-14 |
| 1953 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #18 | W23-14 |
| 1953 Regular Week 2 | Notre Dame | Oklahoma | #8 | W28-21 |
| 1952 Regular Week 10 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #1 | L3-21 |
| 1952 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Oklahoma | #5 | W27-21 |
| 1952 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #8 | W26-14 |
| 1952 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #18 | L19-22 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #2 | L0-35 |
| 1950 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #12 | L33-36 |
| 1948 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #17 | W26-7 |
| 1947 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Army | #11 | W27-7 |
| 1947 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #14 | W22-7 |
| 1943 Regular Week 8 | Notre Dame | Navy | #6 | W33-6 |
| 1943 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Michigan | #6 | W35-12 |
| 1942 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | Georgia Tech | #3 | L6-13 |
| 1942 Regular Week 3 | Notre Dame | Wisconsin | #6 | T7-7 |
| 1940 Postseason Week 1 | Boston College | Tennessee | #4 | W19-13 |
| 1939 Postseason Week 1 | Boston College | Clemson | #12 | L3-6 |
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
1946-1953 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 23.8 • Win % 85.7%
Notre Dame
1941-1943 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 23.3 • Win % 85.0%
Boston College
1939-1940 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 17.3 • Win % 90.9%
- Longest tenure
- Notre Dame • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 23.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Boston College • 90.9%
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.
Frank Leahy
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
1946-1953 • 63-8-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.8Win % 85.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.9 during vs 7.8 baseline
+0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
23.8 during vs 23.5 baseline
+0.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
75.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-25.0%
Notre Dame
1941-1943 • 24-3-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.3Win % 85.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 6.8 baseline
+1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
23.3 during vs 12.9 baseline
+10.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
+20.0%
Boston College
1939-1940 • 20-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 17.3Win % 90.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Notre Dame 1946
8-0-1 • SRS 38.3
Biggest Improvement
Notre Dame 1943
9-1 • 15.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Notre Dame 1950
4-4-1 • SRS 3.0
Biggest Drop
Notre Dame 1950
4-4-1 • -31.1 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 | 1953 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | #1 | #2 | 25.7 | — | — | — | +4.0 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1952 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | #10 | #3 | 21.7 | — | — | — | +5.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1951 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | #14 | — | 16.2 | — | — | — | +13.2 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1950 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | #1 | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | -31.1 | -50.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1949 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #1 | 34.1 | — | — | — | +12.3 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1948 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | — | #2 | 21.8 | — | — | — | -7.4 | -5.0% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1947 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #1 | 29.2 | — | — | — | -9.1 | +5.6% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1946 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 94.4% | — | #1 | 38.3 | — | — | — | +4.6 | +4.4% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1943 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #1 | 33.7 | — | — | — | +15.1 | +17.3% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1942 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 72.7% | — | #6 | 18.6 | — | — | — | +1.0 | -21.7% | Season summary |
| Notre Dame | 1941 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 94.4% | — | #3 | 17.6 | — | — | — | -0.9 | -5.6% | Season summary |
| Boston College | 1940 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #5 | 18.5 | — | — | — | +2.5 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Boston College | 1939 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #11 | 16.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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