Top 25
8-21
- Games
- 29
- Win rate
- 27.6%
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Coach Profile
PJ Fleck
2013-2025 • Minnesota, Western Michigan
2 schools coached, anchored by Minnesota.
PJ Fleck's coaching record is 96-66, highlighted by seasons at Minnesota from 2013 to 2025.
PJ Fleck coached 13 seasons, won 59.3%, and posted an average SRS of 3.5. Best season: 2019 Minnesota. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 96-66
- Career win rate
- 59.3%
- Average SRS
- 3.5
- Peak SRS
- 15.2
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
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 17.6
Primary school anchor
Minnesota
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 74.0.
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
- 96-66
- Minnesota record
- 66-44
- Full-season record
- 88-61
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-7
- Vs Wisconsin
- 5-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 8-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
162 countable games, 59.3% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Minnesota.
12 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
10 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
Minnesota-Wisconsin games in this dataset.
10 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 26, 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.
PJ Fleck
EliteStrongAverageLean
PJ Fleck: 2017 Minnesota
2013Actual season year • SRS range -21.8 to 15.22025
Active comparison point
PJ Fleck • 2019
2019 Minnesota
Best season11-2 • SRS 15.2 • SP Overall 19.4
Win %
84.6%
YoY SRS
+9.7
SP Off / Def
39.8 / 19.6
Finish
#10
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
1-9
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 10.0%
Top 5
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
View ranked game results29
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
2017-2025 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 5.8 • Win % 60.0%
Western Michigan
2013-2016 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -1.8 • Win % 57.7%
- Longest tenure
- Minnesota • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Minnesota • 5.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Minnesota • 60.0%
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.
PJ Fleck sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgePJ Fleck sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
PJ Fleck
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 4.9
- Percentile
- 72th pct
Strong
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
2017-2025 • 66-44
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.8Win % 60.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.3 during vs 6.8 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 3.2 baseline
+2.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
8.2 during vs 5.8 baseline
+2.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
11.1% during vs 0.0% baseline
+11.1%
Western Michigan
2013-2016 • 30-22
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.8Win % 57.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 6.2 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.8 during vs -7.3 baseline
+5.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.5 during vs -5.9 baseline
+3.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+25.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Minnesota 2019
11-2 • SRS 15.2
Biggest Improvement
Western Michigan 2014
8-5 • 18.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Western Michigan 2016
13-1 • SP Off 40.0
Best Defensive Season
Minnesota 2022
9-4 • SP Def 8.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Western Michigan 2013
1-11 • SRS -21.8
Biggest Drop
Minnesota 2020
3-4 • -15.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Minnesota | 2025 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 0.7 | 1.5 | 23.8 | 20.8 | -11.9 | 0.0% | Completed-game fallback |
| Minnesota | 2024 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 12.6 | 10.4 | 25.6 | 15.4 | +14.9 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -2.3 | 0.4 | 20.0 | 21.1 | -13.0 | -23.1% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2022 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 10.7 | 16.0 | 23.5 | 8.6 | +3.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2021 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 6.8 | 14.4 | 29.3 | 15.4 | +6.7 | +26.4% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2020 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.9% | #19 | — | 0.1 | 4.7 | 35.8 | 30.7 | -15.1 | -41.8% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2019 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #10 | 15.2 | 19.4 | 39.8 | 19.6 | +9.7 | +30.8% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2018 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 5.5 | 6.3 | 28.2 | 22.8 | +2.7 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2017 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 2.8 | 0.4 | 23.9 | 22.1 | -10.7 | -51.2% | Season summary |
| Western Michigan | 2016 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | — | #15 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 40.0 | 28.9 | +9.2 | +31.3% | Season summary |
| Western Michigan | 2015 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 4.3 | 4.9 | 36.7 | 32.2 | +7.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Western Michigan | 2014 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -3.0 | -0.8 | 30.2 | 31.8 | +18.8 | +53.2% | Season summary |
| Western Michigan | 2013 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -21.8 | -25.5 | 13.9 | 38.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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