Top 25
4-8
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 33.3%
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Coach Profile
Bill OBrien
2012-2025 • Boston College, Penn State
2 schools coached, anchored by Penn State.
Bill OBrien's coaching record is 24-25, highlighted by seasons at Penn State from 2012 to 2025.
Bill OBrien coached 4 seasons, won 49.0%, and posted an average SRS of 3.0. Best season: 2012 Penn State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 24-25
- Career win rate
- 49.0%
- Average SRS
- 3.0
- Peak SRS
- 8.3
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
- 4
- Career span
- 14 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 72.2
Primary school anchor
Penn State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 57.0.
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
- 24-25
- Boston College record
- 9-16
- Full-season record
- 22-15
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Clemson
- 0-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
49 countable games, 49.0% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Boston College.
3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Boston College-Clemson games in this dataset.
1 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: Nov 29, 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.
Bill OBrien
EliteStrongAverageLean
Bill OBrien: 2024 Boston College
2012Actual season year • SRS range -5.4 to 8.32025
Active comparison point
Bill OBrien • 2012
2012 Penn State
Best season8-4 • SRS 8.3 • SP Overall 14.1
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
32.7 / 17.0
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
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
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
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 0.3 • Win % 36.0%
Penn State
2012-2013 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 5.8 • Win % 62.5%
- Longest tenure
- Boston College • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Penn State • 5.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Penn State • 62.5%
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.
Bill OBrien sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBill OBrien sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill OBrien
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 3.9
- Percentile
- 70th 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.
Boston College
2024-2025 • 9-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.3Win % 36.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 5.6 baseline
-1.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.3 during vs -4.3 baseline
+4.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.6 during vs -6.4 baseline
+2.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Penn State
2012-2013 • 15-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.8Win % 62.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 9.2 baseline
-1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 11.1 baseline
-5.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.5 during vs 17.9 baseline
-6.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Penn State 2012
8-4 • SRS 8.3
Biggest Improvement
Boston College 2024
7-6 • 2.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Penn State 2012
8-4 • SP Off 32.7
Best Defensive Season
Penn State 2012
8-4 • SP Def 17.0
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Boston College 2025
2-10 • SRS -5.4
Biggest Drop
Boston College 2025
2-10 • -11.5 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 | 2025 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -5.4 | -8.5 | 23.3 | 33.1 | -11.5 | -37.2% | Completed-game fallback |
| Boston College | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.1 | 1.2 | 28.0 | 24.7 | +2.9 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 2013 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 3.2 | 8.9 | 31.6 | 21.6 | -5.1 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 2012 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 8.3 | 14.1 | 32.7 | 17.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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