Top 25
8-29
- Games
- 37
- Win rate
- 21.6%
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Dave Doeren
2011-2025 • NC State, Northern Illinois
2 schools coached, anchored by NC State.
Dave Doeren's coaching record is 118-74, highlighted by seasons at NC State from 2011 to 2025.
Dave Doeren coached 15 seasons, won 61.5%, and posted an average SRS of 4.2. Best season: 2017 NC State. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 118-74
- Career win rate
- 61.5%
- Average SRS
- 4.2
- Peak SRS
- 13.7
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
- 15
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #20
- Consistency
- 48.6
Primary school anchor
NC State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 70.5.
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
- 118-74
- NC State record
- 95-70
- Full-season record
- 98-68
- Partial-season record
- 12-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-13
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-8
- Vs Wake Forest
- 7-6
- Postseason / bowl record
- 5-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
192 countable games, 61.5% win rate.
13 countable seasons at NC State.
13 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.
15 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
NC State-Wake Forest games in this dataset.
11 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 19, 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.
Dave Doeren
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dave Doeren: 2013 NC State
2011Actual season year • SRS range -12.0 to 13.72025
Active comparison point
Dave Doeren • 2017
2017 NC State
Best season9-4 • SRS 13.7 • SP Overall 12.9
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+6.1
SP Off / Def
38.0 / 23.3
Finish
#23
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
2-13
- Games
- 15
- Win rate
- 13.3%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results37
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
NC State
2013-2025 • 13 seasons
Avg SRS 4.2 • Win % 57.6%
Northern Illinois
2011-2012 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 3.9 • Win % 85.2%
- Longest tenure
- NC State • 13 seasons
- Best tenure
- NC State • 4.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Northern Illinois • 85.2%
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.
Dave Doeren sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDave Doeren sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dave Doeren
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 6.9
- Percentile
- 77th 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.
NC State
2013-2025 • 95-70
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.2Win % 57.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.3 during vs 7.0 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.2 during vs 2.2 baseline
+2.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.8 during vs 3.2 baseline
+3.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
23.1% during vs 20.0% baseline
+3.1%
Northern Illinois
2011-2012 • 23-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.9Win % 85.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
11.0 during vs 6.4 baseline
+4.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.6 during vs -5.0 baseline
+7.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.2 during vs -3.6 baseline
+5.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
NC State 2017
9-4 • SRS 13.7
Biggest Improvement
NC State 2025
8-5 • 9.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
NC State 2017
9-4 • SP Off 38.0
Best Defensive Season
NC State 2022
8-5 • SP Def 15.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
NC State 2019
4-8 • SRS -12.0
Biggest Drop
NC State 2019
4-8 • -19.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| NC State | 2025 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 7.0 | 4.8 | 31.4 | 25.5 | +9.1 | +15.4% | Completed-game fallback |
| NC State | 2024 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | #24 | — | -2.1 | 3.9 | 29.9 | 26.5 | -9.1 | -23.1% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #21 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 25.5 | 19.7 | +1.5 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2022 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #13 | — | 5.5 | 6.8 | 20.4 | 15.3 | -8.0 | -13.5% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2021 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #20 | 13.5 | 16.1 | 33.1 | 17.7 | — | +8.3% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2020 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +33.3% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2019 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.0 | -6.3 | 22.0 | 29.7 | -19.9 | -35.9% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2018 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 7.9 | 9.4 | 35.1 | 26.7 | -5.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2017 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #23 | 13.7 | 12.9 | 38.0 | 23.3 | +6.1 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2016 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 7.6 | 9.4 | 30.5 | 19.3 | +0.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2015 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.7 | 9.6 | 36.2 | 24.7 | +4.8 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2014 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 1.9 | 8.1 | 34.1 | 27.1 | +8.0 | +36.5% | Season summary |
| NC State | 2013 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -6.1 | -0.5 | 25.0 | 26.5 | -11.2 | -67.3% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2012 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | #22 | 5.1 | 12.4 | 35.6 | 25.4 | +2.5 | +13.7% | Partial season |
| Northern Illinois | 2011 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | — | 2.6 | 2.2 | 32.7 | 29.6 | — | — | Season summary |
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