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Chad Morris
2015-2019 • Arkansas, SMU
2 schools coached, anchored by SMU.
Chad Morris's coaching record is 18-41, highlighted by seasons at SMU from 2015 to 2019.
Chad Morris coached 5 seasons, won 30.5%, and posted an average SRS of -7.6. Best season: 2017 SMU. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 18-41
- Career win rate
- 30.5%
- Average SRS
- -7.6
- Peak SRS
- -2.0
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 88.3
Primary school anchor
SMU
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 30.8.
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.
- Overall record
- 18-41
- SMU record
- 14-23
- Full-season record
- 16-33
- Partial-season record
- 2-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs TCU
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
59 countable games, 30.5% win rate.
3 countable seasons at SMU.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle for the Iron Skillet 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, 2019. 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.
Chad Morris
EliteStrongAverageLean
Chad Morris: 2018 Arkansas
2015Actual season year • SRS range -13.1 to -2.02019
Active comparison point
Chad Morris • 2017
2017 SMU
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-6 • SRS -2.0 • SP Overall -2.9
Win %
53.8%
YoY SRS
+6.3
SP Off / Def
35.4 / 37.4
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
| 2018 Regular Week 12 | Arkansas | Mississippi State | #25 | L6-52 |
| 2018 Regular Week 11 | Arkansas | LSU | #9 | L17-24 |
| 2018 Regular Week 6 | Arkansas | Alabama | #1 | L31-65 |
| 2018 Regular Week 4 | Arkansas | Auburn | #9 | L3-34 |
| 2017 Regular Week 12 | SMU | Memphis | #18 | L45-66 |
| 2017 Regular Week 10 | SMU | UCF | #15 | L24-31 |
| 2017 Regular Week 3 | SMU | TCU | #20 | L36-56 |
| 2016 Regular Week 8 | SMU | Houston | #11 | W38-16 |
| 2016 Regular Week 2 | SMU | Baylor | #23 | L13-40 |
| 2015 Regular Week 11 | SMU | Navy | #22 | L14-55 |
| 2015 Regular Week 10 | SMU | Temple | #23 | L40-60 |
| 2015 Regular Week 3 | SMU | TCU | #3 | L37-56 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arkansas
2018-2019 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -7.4 • Win % 18.2%
SMU
2015-2017 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -7.8 • Win % 37.8%
- Longest tenure
- SMU • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arkansas • -7.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- SMU • 37.8%
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.
Chad Morris sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChad Morris sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chad Morris
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -7.5
- Percentile
- 34th pct
Lower end
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.
Arkansas
2018-2019 • 4-18
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.4Win % 18.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 5.8 baseline
-3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.2 during vs 6.6 baseline
-13.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 8.6 baseline
-4.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
SMU
2015-2017 • 14-23
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.8Win % 37.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 5.4 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.8 during vs -7.3 baseline
-0.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-10.4 during vs -9.4 baseline
-1.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
SMU 2017
7-6 • SRS -2.0
Biggest Improvement
SMU 2017
7-6 • 6.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
SMU 2017
7-6 • SP Off 35.4
Best Defensive Season
Arkansas 2018
2-10 • SP Def 25.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
SMU 2015
2-10 • SRS -13.1
Biggest Drop
Arkansas 2018
2-10 • -5.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arkansas | 2019 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -7.6 | -10.6 | 21.7 | 32.3 | -0.4 | +3.3% | Partial season |
| Arkansas | 2018 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -7.2 | 4.5 | 29.7 | 25.7 | -5.2 | -37.2% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2017 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -2.0 | -2.9 | 35.4 | 37.4 | +6.3 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2016 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -8.3 | -10.8 | 24.3 | 32.6 | +4.8 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2015 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -13.1 | -17.5 | 27.3 | 42.3 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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Open profile →Brian Polian
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Open profile →Tim Beck
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.4
Avg SRS -7.2 • Peak SRS -0.9 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.6
Open profile →Leon Fuller
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.0
Open profile →Greg Davis
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.5
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