Top 25
9-17-1
- Games
- 27
- Win rate
- 35.2%
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Bowden Wyatt
1947-1962 • Arkansas, Tennessee, Wyoming
3 schools coached, anchored by Tennessee.
Bowden Wyatt coached 16 seasons, won 63.4%, and posted an average SRS of 6.4. Best season: 1956 Tennessee. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 99-56-5
- Career win rate
- 63.4%
- Average SRS
- 6.4
- Peak SRS
- 28.1
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
- 16
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 3.0
Primary school anchor
Tennessee
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 95.5.
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.
Bowden Wyatt
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Bowden Wyatt: 1953 ArkansasBowden Wyatt: 1955 Tennessee
1947Actual season year • SRS range -20.3 to 28.11962
Active comparison point
Bowden Wyatt • 1956
1956 Tennessee
Best season10-1 • SRS 28.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.9%
YoY SRS
+16.3
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#2
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
4-11-1
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 28.1%
Top 5
3-8
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 27.3%
View ranked game results27
| 1962 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #2 | L6-19 |
| 1962 Regular Week 6 | Tennessee | Alabama | #2 | L7-27 |
| 1961 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #6 | L10-24 |
| 1961 Regular Week 6 | Tennessee | Alabama | #4 | L3-34 |
| 1960 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #3 | L3-24 |
| 1959 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #2 | L7-37 |
| 1959 Regular Week 9 | Tennessee | LSU | #3 | W14-13 |
| 1959 Regular Week 5 | Tennessee | Georgia Tech | #4 | L7-14 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Tennessee | Auburn | #17 | W3-0 |
| 1958 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #13 | W18-16 |
| 1958 Regular Week 8 | Tennessee | North Carolina | #15 | L7-21 |
| 1958 Regular Week 3 | Tennessee | Auburn | #2 | L0-13 |
| 1957 Regular Week 10 | Tennessee | Ole Miss | #5 | L7-14 |
| 1957 Regular Week 3 | Tennessee | Auburn | #7 | L0-7 |
| 1957 Postseason Week 1 | Tennessee | Texas A&M | #9 | W3-0 |
| 1956 Regular Week 9 | Tennessee | Georgia Tech | #4 | W6-0 |
| 1956 Postseason Week 1 | Tennessee | Baylor | #11 | L7-13 |
| 1955 Regular Week 11 | Tennessee | Vanderbilt | #19 | W20-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 8 | Tennessee | Georgia Tech | #8 | T7-7 |
| 1955 Regular Week 3 | Tennessee | Duke | #16 | L0-21 |
| 1954 Regular Week 9 | Arkansas | SMU | #19 | L14-21 |
| 1954 Regular Week 8 | Arkansas | Rice | #15 | W28-15 |
| 1954 Regular Week 6 | Arkansas | Ole Miss | #5 | W6-0 |
| 1953 Regular Week 8 | Arkansas | Rice | #16 | L0-47 |
| 1953 Regular Week 6 | Arkansas | Ole Miss | #18 | L0-28 |
| 1953 Regular Week 4 | Arkansas | Baylor | #8 | L7-14 |
| 1950 Postseason Week 1 | Wyoming | Washington and Lee | #18 | W20-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Tennessee
1955-1962 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 14.6 • Win % 62.2%
Arkansas
1953-1954 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 11.3 • Win % 52.4%
Wyoming
1947-1952 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -6.3 • Win % 69.3%
- Longest tenure
- Tennessee • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Tennessee • 14.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Wyoming • 69.3%
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.
Bowden Wyatt
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.
Tennessee
1955-1962 • 49-29-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.6Win % 62.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.1 during vs 7.8 baseline
-1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.6 during vs 15.2 baseline
-0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-35.0%
Arkansas
1953-1954 • 11-10
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.3Win % 52.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 3.8 baseline
+1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 5.7 baseline
+5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Wyoming
1947-1952 • 39-17-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -6.3Win % 69.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tennessee 1956
10-1 • SRS 28.1
Biggest Improvement
Wyoming 1949
9-1 • 19.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Wyoming 1948
4-5 • SRS -20.3
Biggest Drop
Tennessee 1958
4-6 • -14.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Tennessee | 1962 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 8.2 | — | — | — | -8.0 | -20.0% |
| Tennessee | 1961 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 16.2 | — | — | — | -0.3 | -10.0% |
| Tennessee | 1960 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 70.0% | #18 | — | 16.5 | — | — | — | +6.2 | +15.0% |
| Tennessee | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 10.3 | — | — | — | +4.5 | +15.0% |
| Tennessee | 1958 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 5.8 | — | — | — | -14.4 | -32.7% |
| Tennessee | 1957 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | #5 | #13 | 20.2 | — | — | — | -7.9 | -18.2% |
| Tennessee | 1956 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | #12 | #2 | 28.1 | — | — | — | +16.3 | +25.9% |
| Tennessee | 1955 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 11.8 | — | — | — | -3.4 | -7.7% |
| Arkansas | 1954 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #10 | 15.2 | — | — | — | +7.9 | +42.7% |
| Arkansas | 1953 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | +18.8 | -25.6% |
| Wyoming | 1952 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -11.5 | — | — | — | -13.4 | -19.4% |
| Wyoming | 1951 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | -10.5 | -25.0% |
| Wyoming | 1950 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #12 | 12.4 | — | — | — | +12.8 | +10.0% |
| Wyoming | 1949 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | -0.4 | — | — | — | +19.9 | +45.6% |
| Wyoming | 1948 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -20.3 | — | — | — | -0.4 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | 1947 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -19.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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