Top 25
15-27
- Games
- 42
- Win rate
- 35.7%
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Bobby Petrino
2003-2018 • Arkansas, Louisville, Western Kentucky
3 schools coached, anchored by Louisville.
Bobby Petrino's coaching record is 119-56, highlighted by seasons at Louisville from 2003 to 2018.
Bobby Petrino coached 14 seasons, won 68.0%, and posted an average SRS of 10.0. Best season: 2004 Louisville. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 5 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 119-56
- Career win rate
- 68.0%
- Average SRS
- 10.0
- Peak SRS
- 22.3
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
- 14
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- #5
- Consistency
- 9.2
Primary school anchor
Louisville
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 88.8.
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
- 119-56
- Louisville record
- 34-18
- Full-season record
- 117-48
- Partial-season record
- 2-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 4-17
- Vs AP Top 5
- 2-10
- Vs Cincinnati
- 4-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
175 countable games, 68.0% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Louisville.
13 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.
21 games using AP ranking at game time.
12 games using AP ranking at game time.
Cincinnati-Louisville games in this dataset.
11 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 24, 2018. 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.
Bobby Petrino
EliteStrongAverageLean
Bobby Petrino: 2008 ArkansasBobby Petrino: 2013 Western KentuckyBobby Petrino: 2014 LouisvilleBobby Petrino: 2018 Western Kentucky
2003Actual season year • SRS range -15.2 to 22.32018
Active comparison point
Bobby Petrino • 2004
2004 Louisville
Best seasonBiggest improvement11-1 • SRS 22.3 • SP Overall 24.0
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+22.2
SP Off / Def
50.7 / 32.1
Finish
#6
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
4-17
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 19.1%
Top 5
2-10
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 16.7%
View ranked game results42
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Western Kentucky
2018-2018 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -15.2 • Win % 20.0%
Louisville
2014-2017 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 12.6 • Win % 65.4%
Western Kentucky
2013-2013 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -5.6 • Win % 66.7%
Arkansas
2008-2011 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 12.6 • Win % 66.7%
Louisville
2003-2006 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 14.9 • Win % 82.0%
- Longest tenure
- Louisville • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Louisville • 14.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Louisville • 82.0%
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.
Bobby Petrino sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBobby Petrino sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bobby Petrino
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 13.9
- Percentile
- 93th 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.
Western Kentucky
2018-2018 • 2-8
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -15.2Win % 20.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Louisville
2014-2017 • 34-18
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.6Win % 65.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.5 during vs 8.2 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.6 during vs 3.3 baseline
+9.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.1 during vs 9.5 baseline
+8.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+10.0%
Western Kentucky
2013-2013 • 8-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -5.6Win % 66.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 3.6 baseline
+4.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.6 during vs -14.8 baseline
+9.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.1 during vs -19.7 baseline
+16.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Arkansas
2008-2011 • 34-17
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.6Win % 66.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.5 during vs 7.2 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.6 during vs 10.8 baseline
+1.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.4 during vs 17.1 baseline
+0.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
Louisville
2003-2006 • 41-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.9Win % 82.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.3 during vs 8.2 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.9 during vs 4.3 baseline
+10.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.0 during vs 8.0 baseline
+10.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
75.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+55.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Louisville 2004
11-1 • SRS 22.3
Biggest Improvement
Louisville 2004
11-1 • 22.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Louisville 2004
11-1 • SP Off 50.7
Best Defensive Season
Louisville 2006
12-1 • SP Def 14.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Western Kentucky 2018
2-8 • SRS -15.2
Biggest Drop
Western Kentucky 2018
2-8 • -28.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Western Kentucky | 2018 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -15.2 | -16.1 | 17.9 | 31.8 | -28.5 | -41.5% | Partial season |
| Louisville | 2017 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #16 | — | 13.3 | 19.2 | 43.3 | 24.9 | -4.0 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2016 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #19 | #21 | 17.3 | 22.9 | 40.8 | 17.7 | +9.0 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2015 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 8.3 | 13.2 | 33.4 | 20.0 | -3.3 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2014 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #24 | 11.6 | 17.0 | 34.0 | 16.7 | +17.2 | +2.6% | Season summary |
| Western Kentucky | 2013 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -5.6 | -3.1 | 30.5 | 33.5 | -21.7 | -17.9% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2011 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #15 | #5 | 16.1 | 21.6 | 39.5 | 19.9 | -2.7 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2010 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #17 | #12 | 18.8 | 27.1 | 44.8 | 19.3 | +2.3 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2009 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 16.5 | 16.0 | 38.0 | 21.1 | +17.4 | +19.9% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2008 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -0.9 | 4.8 | 32.3 | 25.8 | -22.3 | -50.6% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2006 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | #13 | #6 | 21.4 | 27.3 | 41.3 | 14.4 | +5.7 | +17.3% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2005 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #12 | #19 | 15.7 | 20.3 | 41.5 | 21.2 | -6.6 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2004 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #6 | 22.3 | 24.0 | 50.7 | 32.1 | +22.2 | +22.4% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 2003 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 0.1 | 0.5 | 38.7 | 37.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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