Top 25
2-13
- Games
- 15
- Win rate
- 13.3%
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Coach Profile
Jerry Kill
2008-2023 • Minnesota, New Mexico State, Northern Illinois, TCU
4 schools coached, anchored by Minnesota.
Jerry Kill's coaching record is 71-58, highlighted by seasons at Minnesota from 2008 to 2023.
Jerry Kill coached 11 seasons, won 55.0%, and posted an average SRS of -1.7. Best season: 2014 Minnesota. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 71-58
- Career win rate
- 55.0%
- Average SRS
- -1.7
- Peak SRS
- 8.0
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
- 11
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 66.3
Primary school anchor
Minnesota
Defense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 56.5.
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
- 71-58
- Minnesota record
- 29-29
- Full-season record
- 55-50
- Partial-season record
- 16-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Wisconsin
- 0-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
129 countable games, 55.0% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Minnesota.
8 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.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Minnesota-Wisconsin games in this dataset.
7 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 16, 2023. 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.
Jerry Kill
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Jerry Kill: 2011 MinnesotaJerry Kill: 2021 TCUJerry Kill: 2022 New Mexico State
2008Actual season year • SRS range -11.6 to 8.02023
Active comparison point
Jerry Kill • 2014
2014 Minnesota
Best season8-5 • SRS 8.0 • SP Overall 6.8
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+3.9
SP Off / Def
29.7 / 24.3
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
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
New Mexico State
2022-2023 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -7.3 • Win % 60.7%
TCU
2021-2021 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -2.8 • Win % 50.0%
Minnesota
2011-2015 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 0.1 • Win % 50.0%
Northern Illinois
2008-2010 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -0.7 • Win % 59.0%
- Longest tenure
- Minnesota • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Minnesota • 0.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- New Mexico State • 60.7%
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.
Jerry Kill sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJerry Kill sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jerry Kill
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.3
- Percentile
- 55th 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.
New Mexico State
2022-2023 • 17-11
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.3Win % 60.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.5 during vs 3.0 baseline
+5.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.3 during vs -18.4 baseline
+11.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.6 during vs -18.9 baseline
+10.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
TCU
2021-2021 • 2-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -2.8Win % 50.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Minnesota
2011-2015 • 29-29
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.1Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 4.3 baseline
+1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.1 during vs -1.8 baseline
+2.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.1 during vs -2.2 baseline
+3.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Northern Illinois
2008-2010 • 23-16
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.7Win % 59.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 7.0 baseline
-0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.2 during vs -3.1 baseline
-1.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.1 during vs -2.5 baseline
-0.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Minnesota 2014
8-5 • SRS 8.0
Biggest Improvement
Northern Illinois 2010
10-3 • 11.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northern Illinois 2010
10-3 • SP Off 34.5
Best Defensive Season
Minnesota 2015
4-3 • SP Def 22.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
New Mexico State 2022
7-6 • SRS -11.6
Biggest Drop
Minnesota 2011
3-9 • -12.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| New Mexico State | 2023 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.0 | -1.8 | 23.3 | 25.8 | +8.6 | +12.8% | Season summary |
| New Mexico State | 2022 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -11.6 | -15.4 | 12.0 | 26.0 | -8.8 | +3.9% | Season summary |
| TCU | 2021 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -2.8 | -0.6 | 33.2 | 33.9 | -3.0 | -7.1% | Partial season |
| Minnesota | 2015 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | 0.2 | 8.1 | 28.1 | 22.4 | -7.8 | -4.4% | Partial season |
| Minnesota | 2014 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 8.0 | 6.8 | 29.7 | 24.3 | +3.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2013 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 4.1 | 2.5 | 25.6 | 25.0 | +9.4 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2012 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -5.3 | -0.9 | 23.3 | 24.1 | +1.0 | +21.1% | Season summary |
| Minnesota | 2011 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -6.3 | -3.8 | 23.8 | 28.1 | -12.6 | -51.9% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2010 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 6.3 | 7.6 | 34.5 | 25.9 | +11.1 | +23.1% | Partial season |
| Northern Illinois | 2009 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -4.8 | -4.6 | 23.8 | 28.5 | -1.3 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2008 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -3.5 | -1.6 | 23.3 | 25.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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