Top 25
2-13
- Games
- 15
- Win rate
- 13.3%
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Coach Profile
Jonathan Smith
2018-2025 • Michigan State, Oregon State
2 schools coached, anchored by Oregon State.
Jonathan Smith's coaching record is 43-50, highlighted by seasons at Oregon State from 2018 to 2025.
Jonathan Smith coached 8 seasons, won 46.2%, and posted an average SRS of 3.0. Best season: 2023 Oregon State. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 43-50
- Career win rate
- 46.2%
- Average SRS
- 3.0
- Peak SRS
- 15.3
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #17
- Consistency
- 12.6
Primary school anchor
Oregon State
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 74.2.
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
- 43-50
- Oregon State record
- 34-35
- Full-season record
- 31-38
- Partial-season record
- 8-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Oregon
- 2-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
93 countable games, 46.2% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Oregon State.
6 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.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
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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: Nov 30, 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.
Jonathan Smith
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jonathan Smith: 2024 Michigan State
2018Actual season year • SRS range -16.0 to 15.32025
Active comparison point
Jonathan Smith • 2023
2023 Oregon State
Best season8-4 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall 12.6
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+0.7
SP Off / Def
33.2 / 22.3
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
2-4
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 33.3%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results15
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Michigan State
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -1.6 • Win % 37.5%
Oregon State
2018-2023 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 4.9 • Win % 49.3%
- Longest tenure
- Oregon State • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oregon State • 4.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oregon State • 49.3%
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.
Jonathan Smith sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJonathan Smith sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jonathan Smith
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.6
- Percentile
- 63th 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.
Michigan State
2024-2025 • 9-15
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.6Win % 37.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 5.4 baseline
-0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.6 during vs 1.9 baseline
-3.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-4.0 during vs 2.1 baseline
-6.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Oregon State
2018-2023 • 34-35
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.9Win % 49.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.2 during vs 3.7 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.3 during vs -2.9 baseline
+5.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.6 during vs -2.4 baseline
+4.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oregon State 2023
8-4 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
Oregon State 2019
5-7 • 19.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oregon State 2021
7-6 • SP Off 36.9
Best Defensive Season
Oregon State 2022
10-3 • SP Def 17.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Oregon State 2018
2-10 • SRS -16.0
Biggest Drop
Michigan State 2024
5-7 • -18.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Michigan State | 2025 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -0.3 | -3.4 | 26.6 | 28.7 | +2.5 | -8.3% | Completed-game fallback |
| Michigan State | 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -2.8 | -4.6 | 18.0 | 24.1 | -18.1 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Oregon State | 2023 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #18 | — | 15.3 | 12.6 | 33.2 | 22.3 | +0.7 | -10.3% | Partial season |
| Oregon State | 2022 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #17 | 14.6 | 14.3 | 33.3 | 17.7 | +7.1 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| Oregon State | 2021 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 7.5 | 8.9 | 36.9 | 28.5 | — | +25.3% | Season summary |
| Oregon State | 2020 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 28.6% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -13.1% | Season summary |
| Oregon State | 2019 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.0 | -0.7 | 33.8 | 32.8 | +19.0 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Oregon State | 2018 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -16.0 | -16.0 | 28.8 | 43.4 | — | — | 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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Best finish #10 • Volatility 10.4
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