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Dana Bible
1915-1946 • LSU, Mississippi College, Nebraska, Texas, Texas A&M
5 schools coached, anchored by Texas.
Dana Bible coached 31 seasons, won 71.5%, and posted an average SRS of 9.1. Best season: 1941 Texas. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 6 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 190-69-22
- Career win rate
- 71.5%
- Average SRS
- 9.1
- Peak SRS
- 28.8
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
- 31
- Career span
- 32 years
- Best finish
- #4
- Consistency
- 22.7
Primary school anchor
Texas
Balanced profile with 5 program stops and a peak score of 96.1.
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.
Dana Bible
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dana Bible: 1916 LSUDana Bible: 1917 Texas A&MDana Bible: 1929 NebraskaDana Bible: 1937 Texas
1915Actual season year • SRS range -9.0 to 28.81946
Active comparison point
Dana Bible • 1941
1941 Texas
Best season8-1-1 • SRS 28.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
85.0%
YoY SRS
+12.3
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#4
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
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
Top 5
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
View ranked game results10
| 1946 Regular Week 7 | Texas | Rice | #12 | L13-18 |
| 1946 Regular Week 6 | Texas | Arkansas | #17 | W20-0 |
| 1946 Regular Week 5 | Texas | Oklahoma | #16 | W20-13 |
| 1945 Regular Week 6 | Texas | Oklahoma | #14 | W12-7 |
| 1944 Regular Week 7 | Texas | Randolph Field | #4 | L6-42 |
| 1942 Postseason Week 1 | Texas | Georgia Tech | #5 | W14-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 5 | Texas | Oklahoma | #5 | L12-24 |
| 1938 Regular Week 4 | Texas | Oklahoma | #10 | L0-13 |
| 1937 Regular Week 3 | Texas | LSU | #18 | L0-9 |
| 1936 Regular Week 4 | Nebraska | Minnesota | #2 | L0-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Texas
1937-1946 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 12.2 • Win % 66.5%
Nebraska
1929-1936 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 10.3 • Win % 74.3%
Texas A&M
1919-1928 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 7.2 • Win % 74.5%
Texas A&M
1917-1917 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 17.5 • Win % 100.0%
LSU
1916-1916 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -4.5 • Win % 66.7%
Mississippi College
1915-1915 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -9.0 • Win % 50.0%
- Longest tenure
- Texas • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Texas A&M • 17.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Texas A&M • 100.0%
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.
Dana Bible
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.
Texas
1937-1946 • 63-31-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.2Win % 66.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.2 during vs 8.8 baseline
+3.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Nebraska
1929-1936 • 50-15-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.3Win % 74.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 5.6 baseline
+0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.3 during vs 12.3 baseline
-2.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
12.5% during vs 0.0% baseline
+12.5%
Texas A&M
1919-1928 • 64-19-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.2Win % 74.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 6.4 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.2 during vs 1.7 baseline
+5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Texas A&M
1917-1917 • 8-0
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 17.5Win % 100.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 5.8 baseline
+2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
17.5 during vs -2.9 baseline
+20.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
LSU
1916-1916 • 1-0-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.5Win % 66.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 5.2 baseline
-4.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.5 during vs -9.3 baseline
+4.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Mississippi College
1915-1915 • 4-4-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -9.0Win % 50.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Texas 1941
8-1-1 • SRS 28.8
Biggest Improvement
Texas A&M 1927
8-0-1 • 25.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Mississippi College 1915
4-4-1 • SRS -9.0
Biggest Drop
Texas A&M 1928
5-4-1 • -28.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Texas | 1946 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #15 | 18.2 | — | — | — | +5.0 | -10.9% |
| Texas | 1945 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #10 | 13.2 | — | — | — | +5.1 | +35.4% |
| Texas | 1944 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 8.1 | — | — | — | -6.9 | -27.8% |
| Texas | 1943 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | #14 | 15.0 | — | — | — | +0.2 | +1.5% |
| Texas | 1942 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #11 | 14.8 | — | — | — | -14.0 | -3.2% |
| Texas | 1941 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 85.0% | — | #4 | 28.8 | — | — | — | +12.3 | +5.0% |
| Texas | 1940 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 16.5 | — | — | — | +10.2 | +24.4% |
| Texas | 1939 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 6.3 | — | — | — | +11.7 | +44.4% |
| Texas | 1938 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | — | — | -5.4 | — | — | — | -11.6 | -16.7% |
| Texas | 1937 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | 6.2 | — | — | — | -14.9 | -50.0% |
| Nebraska | 1936 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #9 | 21.1 | — | — | — | +8.9 | +5.6% |
| Nebraska | 1935 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 12.2 | — | — | — | +9.1 | +5.6% |
| Nebraska | 1934 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 3.1 | — | — | — | -15.1 | -22.2% |
| Nebraska | 1933 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 18.2 | — | — | — | +10.6 | +5.6% |
| Nebraska | 1932 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | +2.2 | +3.3% |
| Nebraska | 1931 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 5.4 | — | — | — | +0.4 | +24.4% |
| Nebraska | 1930 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55.6% | — | — | 5.0 | — | — | — | -5.1 | -13.2% |
| Nebraska | 1929 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 68.8% | — | — | 10.1 | — | — | — | +10.6 | +13.8% |
| Texas A&M | 1928 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -0.5 | — | — | — | -28.9 | -39.4% |
| Texas A&M | 1927 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 94.4% | — | — | 28.4 | — | — | — | +25.2 | +33.3% |
| Texas A&M | 1926 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 3.2 | — | — | — | -4.7 | -22.2% |
| Texas A&M | 1925 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | — | 7.9 | — | — | — | +0.7 | +8.3% |
| Texas A&M | 1924 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.2 | — | — | — | +1.4 | +13.9% |
| Texas A&M | 1923 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 5.8 | — | — | — | -3.9 | +5.6% |
| Texas A&M | 1922 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 9.7 | — | — | — | +8.1 | -22.2% |
| Texas A&M | 1921 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | — | 1.6 | — | — | — | +2.2 | -3.5% |
| Texas A&M | 1920 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 81.3% | — | — | -0.6 | — | — | — | -10.1 | -18.8% |
| Texas A&M | 1919 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 9.5 | — | — | — | -8.0 | 0.0% |
| Texas A&M | 1917 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 17.5 | — | — | — | +22.0 | +33.3% |
| LSU | 1916 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 66.7% | — | — | -4.5 | — | — | — | +4.5 | +16.7% |
| Mississippi College | 1915 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -9.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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