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Bernie Shively

College football coaching record, Kentucky years & career stats

1945-1945Kentucky

One defining program at Kentucky.

Bernie Shively's coaching record is 2-8, highlighted by seasons at Kentucky from 1945 to 1945.

Bernie Shively coached 1 seasons, won 20.0%, and posted an average SRS of -2.7. Best season: 1945 Kentucky. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
2-8
Career win rate
20.0%
Average SRS
-2.7
Peak SRS
-2.7

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
1
Career span
1 years
Best finish
Consistency

Primary school anchor

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 28.8.

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 Bernie Shively
Overall record
2-8

10 countable games, 20.0% win rate.

Kentucky record
2-8

1 countable seasons at Kentucky.

Full-season record
2-8

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

Vs AP Top 25
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Tennessee
0-1

Kentucky-Tennessee 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.

Career Résumé

Bernie Shively season milestones

Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.

Winning seasons
0

0% of countable seasons

10-win seasons
0

Seasons with at least 10 wins

Undefeated seasons
0

No losses or ties

Top-10 finishes
0

Tracked final rankings

National titles
0

Championship seasons

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 24, 1945. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

Coach FAQ

Quick answers about Bernie Shively

Who is Bernie Shively?

Bernie Shively is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Kentucky, with a 2-8 career record from 1945 across 1 countable season.

What is Bernie Shively's college football coaching record?

Bernie Shively's college football coaching record is 2-8 across 1 countable season, anchored by Kentucky.

Which schools did Bernie Shively coach?

Bernie Shively coached at Kentucky in the seasons covered by this profile.

How many winning seasons did Bernie Shively have?

Bernie Shively had 0 winning seasons across 1 countable season row in this profile.

How many 10-win seasons did Bernie Shively have?

Bernie Shively had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.

How many Top-10 finishes did Bernie Shively have?

Bernie Shively recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.

What years did Bernie Shively coach at Kentucky?

Bernie Shively's Kentucky head coach years were 1945, covering 1 countable season with a 2-8 record.

How did Bernie Shively do against ranked opponents?

Bernie Shively's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.

How does CFBTrack count Bernie Shively's coaching record?

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Bernie Shively 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.

Bernie Shively
EliteStrongAverageLean
1944Actual season year • SRS range -3.7 to -1.71946

Active comparison point

Bernie Shively1945

Selected

1945 Kentucky

Best seasonWorst season

2-8 • SRS -2.7 • SP Overall

Win %

20.0%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Season context

Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.

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
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

Tenure map

Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.

Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
Kentucky

1945-19451 seasons

Avg SRS -2.7 • Win % 20.0%

Longest tenure
Kentucky • 1 seasons
Best tenure
Kentucky • -2.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Kentucky • 20.0%

Style and Strength Profile

Read 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.

Overall Strength

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Bernie Shively

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Bernie Shively coaching record by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Kentucky

1945-19452-8

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -2.7Win % 20.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.0 during vs 4.0 baseline

-2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-2.7 during vs -0.2 baseline

-2.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Kentucky 1945

2-8SRS -2.7

Biggest Improvement

Unavailable

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Kentucky 1945

2-8SRS -2.7

Biggest Drop

Unavailable

Bernie Shively coaching record by season

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

Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.

Bernie Shively season-by-season college football coaching record
KentuckyBest19451028020.0%-2.7Season summary

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