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Tracy Claeys
2015-2016 • Minnesota
One defining program at Minnesota.
Tracy Claeys's coaching record is 11-8, highlighted by seasons at Minnesota from 2015 to 2016.
Tracy Claeys coached 2 seasons, won 57.9%, and posted an average SRS of 4.6. Best season: 2016 Minnesota. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 11-8
- Career win rate
- 57.9%
- Average SRS
- 4.6
- Peak SRS
- 9.0
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
- 2
- Career span
- 2 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- —
Primary school anchor
Minnesota
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 58.9.
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
- 11-8
- Minnesota record
- 11-8
- Full-season record
- 9-4
- Partial-season record
- 2-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Wisconsin
- 0-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
19 countable games, 57.9% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Minnesota.
1 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.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Minnesota-Wisconsin 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: Dec 28, 2016. 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.
Tracy Claeys
EliteStrongAverageLean
2015Actual season year • SRS range 0.2 to 9.02016
Active comparison point
Tracy Claeys • 2016
2016 Minnesota
Best seasonBiggest improvementBiggest drop9-4 • SRS 9.0 • SP Overall 12.6
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+8.8
SP Off / Def
27.8 / 17.5
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Minnesota
2015-2016 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 4.6 • Win % 57.9%
- Longest tenure
- Minnesota • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Minnesota • 4.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Minnesota • 57.9%
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.
Tracy Claeys sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTracy Claeys sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tracy Claeys
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 10.3
- Percentile
- 86th 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.
Minnesota
2015-2016 • 11-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.6Win % 57.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
9.0 during vs 5.3 baseline
+3.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.0 during vs -0.8 baseline
+9.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
12.6 during vs -1.2 baseline
+13.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Minnesota 2016
9-4 • SRS 9.0
Biggest Improvement
Minnesota 2016
9-4 • 8.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Minnesota 2015
2-4 • SP Off 28.1
Best Defensive Season
Minnesota 2016
9-4 • SP Def 17.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Minnesota 2015
2-4 • SRS 0.2
Biggest Drop
Minnesota 2016
9-4 • 8.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Minnesota | 2016 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 9.0 | 12.6 | 27.8 | 17.5 | +8.8 | +35.9% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2015 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 0.2 | 8.1 | 28.1 | 22.4 | — | — | Partial season |
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Open profile →Fred Taylor
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.7
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Avg SRS 5.4 • Peak SRS 14.0 • 5 seasons
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Avg SRS 2.7 • Peak SRS 9.6 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.9
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