Top 25
5-24-6
- Games
- 35
- Win rate
- 22.9%
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Bill Murray
1951-1965 • Duke
One defining program at Duke.
Bill Murray's coaching record is 93-51-9, highlighted by seasons at Duke from 1951 to 1965.
Bill Murray coached 15 seasons, won 63.7%, and posted an average SRS of 10.4. Best season: 1952 Duke. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 93-51-9
- Career win rate
- 63.7%
- Average SRS
- 10.4
- Peak SRS
- 16.4
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
- 15
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 81.0
Primary school anchor
Duke
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 76.8.
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
- 93-51-9
- Duke record
- 93-51-9
- Full-season record
- 93-51-9
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-12-5
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-6-1
- Vs North Carolina
- 10-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
153 countable games, 63.7% win rate.
15 countable seasons at Duke.
15 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
19 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Duke-North Carolina 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 20, 1965. 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.
Bill Murray
EliteStrongAverageLean
1951Actual season year • SRS range 2.3 to 16.41965
Active comparison point
Bill Murray • 1952
1952 Duke
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-2 • SRS 16.4 • SP Overall —
Win %
80.0%
YoY SRS
+9.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#16
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
2-12-5
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 23.7%
Top 5
0-6-1
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 7.1%
View ranked game results35
| 1965 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #7 | L23-35 |
| 1964 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #10 | L8-21 |
| 1963 Regular Week 10 | Duke | Navy | #2 | L25-38 |
| 1962 Regular Week 2 | Duke | USC | #9 | L7-14 |
| 1961 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #8 | L0-21 |
| 1960 Regular Week 9 | Duke | Navy | #8 | W19-10 |
| 1960 Postseason Week 1 | Duke | Arkansas | #7 | W7-6 |
| 1959 Regular Week 9 | Duke | Clemson | #11 | L0-6 |
| 1959 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #19 | W10-7 |
| 1959 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Pittsburgh | #20 | L0-12 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Duke | Ohio State | #14 | L13-14 |
| 1959 Regular Week 2 | Duke | South Carolina | #20 | L7-12 |
| 1958 Regular Week 9 | Duke | LSU | #1 | L18-50 |
| 1958 Regular Week 6 | Duke | Notre Dame | #11 | L7-9 |
| 1958 Regular Week 2 | Duke | South Carolina | #18 | L0-8 |
| 1957 Regular Week 9 | Duke | Navy | #9 | T6-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #18 | L0-13 |
| 1957 Regular Week 7 | Duke | NC State | #10 | T14-14 |
| 1957 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Rice | #19 | W7-6 |
| 1957 Postseason Week 1 | Duke | Oklahoma | #4 | L21-48 |
| 1956 Regular Week 9 | Duke | Navy | #15 | T7-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #2 | L0-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 6 | Duke | Pittsburgh | #13 | L14-27 |
| 1956 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Tennessee | #6 | L20-33 |
| 1956 Regular Week 2 | Duke | South Carolina | #17 | L0-7 |
| 1955 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Navy | #9 | T7-7 |
| 1955 Regular Week 7 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #12 | L0-27 |
| 1955 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Ohio State | #14 | W20-14 |
| 1954 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Navy | #19 | L7-40 |
| 1954 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Army | #18 | L14-28 |
| 1954 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Purdue | #5 | T13-13 |
| 1953 Regular Week 10 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #10 | L10-13 |
| 1952 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #2 | L7-28 |
| 1951 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #7 | T14-14 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Tennessee | #2 | L0-26 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Duke
1951-1965 • 15 seasons
Avg SRS 10.4 • Win % 63.7%
- Longest tenure
- Duke • 15 seasons
- Best tenure
- Duke • 10.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Duke • 63.7%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill Murray
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Duke
1951-1965 • 93-51-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.4Win % 63.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.4 during vs 9.0 baseline
+1.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
40.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Duke 1952
8-2 • SRS 16.4
Biggest Improvement
Duke 1952
8-2 • 9.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Duke 1959
4-6 • SRS 2.3
Biggest Drop
Duke 1963
5-4-1 • -9.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Duke | 1965 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 9.9 | — | — | — | +7.0 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1964 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 2.9 | — | — | — | -2.6 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1963 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | -9.9 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1962 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #8 | — | 15.4 | — | — | — | +1.3 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1961 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | #20 | 14.1 | — | — | — | +2.8 | -2.7% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1960 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #10 | 11.3 | — | — | — | +9.0 | +32.7% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1959 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 2.3 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1958 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.2 | — | — | — | -6.6 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1957 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 63.6% | #10 | #16 | 13.8 | — | — | — | -2.1 | +8.6% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1956 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | #16 | — | 15.9 | — | — | — | +3.2 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1955 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | #18 | — | 12.7 | — | — | — | +2.1 | -2.3% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1954 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | #15 | #14 | 10.6 | — | — | — | -0.4 | +2.3% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1953 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | #10 | #18 | 11.0 | — | — | — | -5.4 | -5.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1952 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #19 | #16 | 16.4 | — | — | — | +9.6 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1951 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 6.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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