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- Win rate
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Billy Kinard
1971-1972 • Ole Miss
One defining program at Ole Miss.
Billy Kinard's coaching record is 15-7, highlighted by seasons at Ole Miss from 1971 to 1972.
Billy Kinard coached 2 seasons, won 68.2%, and posted an average SRS of 16.4. Best season: 1971 Ole Miss. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 15-7
- Career win rate
- 68.2%
- Average SRS
- 16.4
- Peak SRS
- 18.4
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
- #15
- Consistency
- —
Primary school anchor
Ole Miss
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 81.2.
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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
- 15-7
- Ole Miss record
- 15-7
- Full-season record
- 15-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Mississippi State
- 2-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
22 countable games, 68.2% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Ole Miss.
2 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Egg Bowl 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: Nov 25, 1972. 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.
Billy Kinard
EliteStrongAverageLean
1971Actual season year • SRS range 14.3 to 18.41972
Active comparison point
Billy Kinard • 1971
1971 Ole Miss
Best season10-2 • SRS 18.4 • SP Overall 23.0
Win %
83.3%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
39.9 / 18.7
Finish
#15
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
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Ole Miss
1971-1972 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 16.4 • Win % 68.2%
- Longest tenure
- Ole Miss • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Ole Miss • 16.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Ole Miss • 68.2%
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.
Billy Kinard sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBilly Kinard sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Billy Kinard
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.9
- Percentile
- 97th 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.
Ole Miss
1971-1972 • 15-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.4Win % 68.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 7.2 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
16.4 during vs 16.2 baseline
+0.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.9 during vs 14.3 baseline
+4.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+10.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Ole Miss 1971
10-2 • SRS 18.4
Biggest Improvement
Ole Miss 1972
5-5 • -4.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Ole Miss 1971
10-2 • SP Off 39.9
Best Defensive Season
Ole Miss 1972
5-5 • SP Def 12.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Ole Miss 1972
5-5 • SRS 14.3
Biggest Drop
Ole Miss 1972
5-5 • -4.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ole Miss | 1972 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | #16 | — | 14.3 | 14.7 | 26.8 | 12.4 | -4.1 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Ole Miss | 1971 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #15 | 18.4 | 23.0 | 39.9 | 18.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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