Top 25
6-28
- Games
- 34
- Win rate
- 17.6%
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Coach Profile
Sam Pittman
2020-2025 • Arkansas
One defining program at Arkansas.
Sam Pittman's coaching record is 32-41, highlighted by seasons at Arkansas from 2020 to 2025.
Sam Pittman coached 6 seasons, won 43.8%, and posted an average SRS of 5.1. Best season: 2021 Arkansas. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 32-41
- Career win rate
- 43.8%
- Average SRS
- 5.1
- Peak SRS
- 9.7
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- #21
- Consistency
- 93.6
Primary school anchor
Arkansas
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 60.5.
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
- 32-41
- Arkansas record
- 32-41
- Full-season record
- 30-31
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-12
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-7
- Vs Texas A&M
- 1-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
73 countable games, 43.8% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Arkansas.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
Arkansas-Texas A&M games in this dataset.
3 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 29, 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.
Sam Pittman
EliteStrongAverageLean
2020Actual season year • SRS range 1.1 to 9.72025
Active comparison point
Sam Pittman • 2021
2021 Arkansas
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-4 • SRS 9.7 • SP Overall 13.8
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+6.4
SP Off / Def
34.3 / 21.3
Finish
#21
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
2-12
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 14.3%
Top 5
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
View ranked game results34
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arkansas
2020-2025 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 5.1 • Win % 43.8%
- Longest tenure
- Arkansas • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arkansas • 5.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Arkansas • 43.8%
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.
Sam Pittman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeSam Pittman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sam Pittman
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 7.8
- Percentile
- 80th 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.
Arkansas
2020-2025 • 32-41
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.1Win % 43.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 4.4 baseline
+0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.1 during vs -0.0 baseline
+5.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
7.8 during vs 4.6 baseline
+3.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Arkansas 2021
9-4 • SRS 9.7
Biggest Improvement
Arkansas 2021
9-4 • 6.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Arkansas 2022
7-6 • SP Off 38.3
Best Defensive Season
Arkansas 2021
9-4 • SP Def 21.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Arkansas 2023
4-8 • SRS 1.1
Biggest Drop
Arkansas 2023
4-8 • -5.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arkansas | 2025 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | 4.0 | 5.1 | 35.8 | 31.4 | -2.1 | -37.2% | Completed-game fallback |
| Arkansas | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.1 | 11.0 | 31.4 | 21.7 | +5.0 | +20.5% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2023 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 1.1 | 3.5 | 28.3 | 26.6 | -5.4 | -20.5% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2022 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #19 | — | 6.5 | 12.0 | 38.3 | 26.3 | -3.2 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2021 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #21 | 9.7 | 13.8 | 34.3 | 21.3 | +6.4 | +39.2% | Season summary |
| Arkansas | 2020 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 3.3 | 1.6 | 28.5 | 26.7 | — | — | 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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same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.1
Avg SRS 4.0 • Peak SRS 7.3 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.2
Open profile →Bill Doba
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.0
Avg SRS 5.2 • Peak SRS 12.8 • 5 seasons
Best finish #9 • Volatility 4.3
Open profile →Ryan Silverfield
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.0
Avg SRS 2.0 • Peak SRS 5.4 • 6 seasons
Best finish #24 • Volatility 2.8
Open profile →Al Luginbill
same offense-first identity • volatility within 0.0
Avg SRS 2.2 • Peak SRS 5.3 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 2.7
Open profile →Matt Luke
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.3
Avg SRS 3.9 • Peak SRS 6.5 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 2.0
Open profile →Spencer Danielson
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.8
Avg SRS 6.9 • Peak SRS 9.9 • 3 seasons
Best finish #8 • Volatility 2.3
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