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- Games
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- Win rate
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Tyson Helton
2019-2025 • Western Kentucky
One defining program at Western Kentucky.
Tyson Helton's coaching record is 57-36, highlighted by seasons at Western Kentucky from 2019 to 2025.
Tyson Helton coached 7 seasons, won 61.3%, and posted an average SRS of -2.5. Best season: 2021 Western Kentucky. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 57-36
- Career win rate
- 61.3%
- Average SRS
- -2.5
- Peak SRS
- 5.0
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 80.3
Primary school anchor
Western Kentucky
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 47.2.
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
- 57-36
- Western Kentucky record
- 57-36
- Full-season record
- 48-32
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Middle Tennessee
- 7-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
93 countable games, 61.3% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Western Kentucky.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
100 Miles of Hate games in this dataset.
7 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 23, 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.
Tyson Helton
EliteStrongAverageLean
2019Actual season year • SRS range -10.2 to 5.02025
Active comparison point
Tyson Helton • 2021
2021 Western Kentucky
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-5 • SRS 5.0 • SP Overall 13.3
Win %
64.3%
YoY SRS
+15.2
SP Off / Def
40.5 / 28.8
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results3
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Western Kentucky
2019-2025 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -2.5 • Win % 61.3%
- Longest tenure
- Western Kentucky • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Western Kentucky • -2.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Western Kentucky • 61.3%
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.
Tyson Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTyson Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tyson Helton
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.6
- Percentile
- 63th pct
Above average
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.
Western Kentucky
2019-2025 • 57-36
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.5Win % 61.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.1 during vs 7.7 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.5 during vs -2.0 baseline
-0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.6 during vs 0.5 baseline
+1.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Western Kentucky 2021
9-5 • SRS 5.0
Biggest Improvement
Western Kentucky 2021
9-5 • 15.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Western Kentucky 2021
9-5 • SP Off 40.5
Best Defensive Season
Western Kentucky 2019
9-4 • SP Def 21.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Western Kentucky 2020
5-7 • SRS -10.2
Biggest Drop
Western Kentucky 2020
5-7 • -10.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Western Kentucky | 2025 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | -4.2 | 1.6 | 28.8 | 28.6 | +1.2 | +12.1% | Completed-game fallback |
| Western Kentucky | 2024 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -5.4 | -2.2 | 22.1 | 26.1 | -2.6 | -4.4% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2023 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -2.8 | -2.0 | 28.7 | 30.1 | -2.7 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2022 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | -0.1 | 1.7 | 31.3 | 30.1 | -5.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2021 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | 5.0 | 13.3 | 40.5 | 28.8 | +15.2 | +22.6% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2020 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -10.2 | -3.2 | 18.9 | 22.3 | -10.2 | -27.6% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2019 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 0.0 | 1.7 | 23.6 | 21.1 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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