Top 25
4-10
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 28.6%
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Coach Profile
Tom Coughlin
1991-1993 • Boston College
One defining program at Boston College.
Tom Coughlin's coaching record is 21-13-1, highlighted by seasons at Boston College from 1991 to 1993.
Tom Coughlin coached 3 seasons, won 61.4%, and posted an average SRS of 7.4. Best season: 1993 Boston College. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 21-13-1
- Career win rate
- 61.4%
- Average SRS
- 7.4
- Peak SRS
- 10.2
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
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years
- Best finish
- #13
- Consistency
- 95.2
Primary school anchor
Boston College
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 62.2.
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
- 21-13-1
- Boston College record
- 21-13-1
- Full-season record
- 21-13-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
35 countable games, 61.4% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Boston College.
3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
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: Jan 1, 1994. 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.
Tom Coughlin
EliteStrongAverageLean
1991Actual season year • SRS range 4.3 to 10.21993
Active comparison point
Tom Coughlin • 1993
1993 Boston College
Best seasonBiggest drop9-3 • SRS 10.2 • SP Overall 15.7
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
+2.6
SP Off / Def
39.6 / 26.4
Finish
#13
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
2-7
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 22.2%
Top 5
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
View ranked game results14
| 1993 Regular Week 14 | Boston College | West Virginia | #5 | L14-17 |
| 1993 Regular Week 13 | Boston College | Notre Dame | #1 | W41-39 |
| 1993 Regular Week 11 | Boston College | Virginia Tech | #25 | W48-34 |
| 1993 Regular Week 6 | Boston College | Syracuse | #13 | W33-29 |
| 1993 Regular Week 2 | Boston College | Miami | #3 | L7-23 |
| 1992 Regular Week 12 | Boston College | Syracuse | #10 | L10-27 |
| 1992 Regular Week 11 | Boston College | Notre Dame | #8 | L7-54 |
| 1992 Regular Week 8 | Boston College | Penn State | #9 | W35-32 |
| 1992 Postseason Week 1 | Boston College | Tennessee | #12 | L23-38 |
| 1991 Regular Week 13 | Boston College | Miami | #1 | L14-19 |
| 1991 Regular Week 12 | Boston College | Syracuse | #17 | L16-38 |
| 1991 Regular Week 5 | Boston College | Penn State | #10 | L21-28 |
| 1991 Regular Week 3 | Boston College | Georgia Tech | #17 | L14-30 |
| 1991 Regular Week 2 | Boston College | Michigan | #2 | L13-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Boston College
1991-1993 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 7.4 • Win % 61.4%
- Longest tenure
- Boston College • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Boston College • 7.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Boston College • 61.4%
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.
Tom Coughlin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTom Coughlin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Coughlin
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.9
- Percentile
- 87th pct
Elite
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.
Boston College
1991-1993 • 21-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.4Win % 61.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 4.6 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.4 during vs 0.2 baseline
+7.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.9 during vs -0.1 baseline
+10.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
66.7% during vs 20.0% baseline
+46.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Boston College 1993
9-3 • SRS 10.2
Biggest Improvement
Boston College 1992
8-3-1 • 3.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Boston College 1993
9-3 • SP Off 39.6
Best Defensive Season
Boston College 1992
8-3-1 • SP Def 24.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Boston College 1991
4-7 • SRS 4.3
Biggest Drop
Boston College 1993
9-3 • 2.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Boston College | 1993 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #21 | #13 | 10.2 | 15.7 | 39.6 | 26.4 | +2.6 | +4.2% | Season summary |
| Boston College | 1992 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | — | #21 | 7.6 | 10.0 | 33.0 | 24.8 | +3.3 | +34.5% | Season summary |
| Boston College | 1991 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 4.3 | 6.9 | 29.9 | 24.8 | — | — | Season summary |
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