Top 25
5-5-1
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 50.0%
Coach Profile
College football coaching record, Fordham years & career stats
1929-1942 • Fordham, Michigan State, North Carolina Pre-Flight
3 schools coached, anchored by Fordham.
Jimmy Crowley's coaching record is 86-23-11, highlighted by seasons at Fordham from 1929 to 1942.
Jimmy Crowley coached 14 seasons, won 76.3%, and posted an average SRS of 10.2. Best season: 1942 North Carolina Pre-Flight. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
120 countable games, 76.3% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Fordham.
14 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 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.
Career Résumé
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
100% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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 28, 1942. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Jimmy Crowley is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Fordham, with a 86-23-11 career record from 1929-1942 across 14 countable seasons.
Jimmy Crowley's college football coaching record is 86-23-11 across 14 countable seasons, anchored by Fordham.
Jimmy Crowley coached at Fordham, Michigan State, North Carolina Pre-Flight in the seasons covered by this profile.
Jimmy Crowley had 14 winning seasons across 14 countable season rows in this profile.
Jimmy Crowley had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
Jimmy Crowley recorded 2 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
Jimmy Crowley's Fordham head coach years were 1933-1941, covering 9 countable seasons with a 56-13-7 record.
Jimmy Crowley's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 5-5-1 across 11 games.
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Active comparison point
8-2-1 • SRS 17.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
77.3%
YoY SRS
+3.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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 25
5-5-1
Top 10
1-4-1
Top 5
0-1-1
| 1942 Regular Week 6 | North Carolina Pre-Flight | Boston College | #3 | L6-7 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Fordham | TCU | #19 | W28-14 |
| 1941 Regular Week 3 | Fordham | SMU | #20 | W16-10 |
| 1941 Postseason Week 1 | Fordham | Missouri | #7 | W2-0 |
| 1940 Postseason Week 1 | Fordham | Texas A&M | #6 | L12-13 |
| 1939 Regular Week 5 | Fordham | Tulane | #6 | L0-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Fordham | Alabama | #20 | L6-7 |
| 1938 Regular Week 7 | Fordham | Pittsburgh | #7 | L13-24 |
| 1937 Regular Week 6 | Fordham | TCU | #14 | W7-6 |
| 1937 Regular Week 5 | Fordham | Pittsburgh | #1 | T0-0 |
| 1936 Regular Week 4 | Fordham | SMU | #19 | W7-0 |
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Read 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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jimmy Crowley
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Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1942-1942 • 8-2-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
1933-1941 • 56-13-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 6.2 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.1 during vs 10.9 baseline
+1.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
66.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+66.7%
1929-1932 • 22-8-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 3.3 baseline
+2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.1 during vs -6.4 baseline
+10.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
North Carolina Pre-Flight 1942
8-2-1 • SRS 17.6
Biggest Improvement
Michigan State 1930
5-1-2 • 16.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Michigan State 1929
5-3 • SRS -5.8
Biggest Drop
Michigan State 1931
5-3-1 • -9.4 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| North Carolina Pre-FlightBest | 1942 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | — | 17.6 | — | — | — | +3.8 | -11.6% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1941 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | #6 | 13.8 | — | — | — | +1.8 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1940 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #12 | 12.0 | — | — | — | -1.0 | +2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1939 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #17 | 13.0 | — | — | — | -1.2 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1938 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | #15 | 14.2 | — | — | — | -2.2 | -16.0% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1937 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 93.8% | — | #3 | 16.4 | — | — | — | +2.4 | +18.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1936 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | — | #15 | 14.0 | — | — | — | +3.2 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1935 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +3.4 | +15.3% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1934 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 7.4 | — | — | — | -0.2 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1933 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | -1.9 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1932 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 9.5 | — | — | — | +7.9 | +26.4% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1931 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 1.6 | — | — | — | -9.4 | -13.9% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1930 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | — | — | 11.0 | — | — | — | +16.8 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Michigan StateLowest | 1929 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | -5.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
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