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0-13
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Coach Profile
George Barclay
1908-1955 • Lafayette, North Carolina, Washington and Lee
3 schools coached, anchored by Washington and Lee.
George Barclay coached 7 seasons, won 51.4%, and posted an average SRS of 1.0. Best season: 1951 Washington and Lee. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 34-32-4
- Career win rate
- 51.4%
- Average SRS
- 1.0
- Peak SRS
- 9.2
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
- 7
- Career span
- 48 years
- Best finish
- #18
- Consistency
- 75.9
Primary school anchor
Washington and Lee
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 59.4.
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
- 34-32-4
- North Carolina record
- 11-18-1
- Full-season record
- 34-32-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-7
- Vs Virginia
- 3-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
70 countable games, 51.4% win rate.
3 countable seasons at North Carolina.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
South's Oldest Rivalry 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: Dec 3, 1955. 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.
George Barclay
EliteStrongAverageLean
George Barclay: 1949 Washington and LeeGeorge Barclay: 1953 North Carolina
1908Actual season year • SRS range -5.0 to 9.21955
Active comparison point
George Barclay • 1951
1951 Washington and Lee
Best season6-4 • SRS 9.2 • SP Overall —
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+5.1
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
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
0-9
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results13
| 1955 Regular Week 9 | North Carolina | Notre Dame | #5 | L7-27 |
| 1955 Regular Week 5 | North Carolina | Maryland | #2 | L7-25 |
| 1955 Regular Week 2 | North Carolina | Oklahoma | #3 | L6-13 |
| 1954 Regular Week 11 | North Carolina | Duke | #20 | L12-47 |
| 1954 Regular Week 9 | North Carolina | Notre Dame | #5 | L13-42 |
| 1953 Regular Week 9 | North Carolina | Notre Dame | #1 | L14-34 |
| 1953 Regular Week 5 | North Carolina | Maryland | #3 | L0-26 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | Washington and Lee | Tennessee | #1 | L14-60 |
| 1951 Regular Week 6 | Washington and Lee | Miami | #19 | L12-32 |
| 1951 Regular Week 3 | Washington and Lee | Maryland | #10 | L14-54 |
| 1950 Regular Week 7 | Washington and Lee | Tennessee | #11 | L20-27 |
| 1950 Postseason Week 1 | Washington and Lee | Wyoming | #12 | L7-20 |
| 1949 Regular Week 6 | Washington and Lee | Virginia | #10 | L7-27 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
North Carolina
1953-1955 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -2.3 • Win % 38.3%
Washington and Lee
1949-1951 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 2.8 • Win % 58.3%
Lafayette
1908-1908 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 5.5 • Win % 70.0%
- Longest tenure
- North Carolina • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Lafayette • 5.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Lafayette • 70.0%
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.
George Barclay
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.
North Carolina
1953-1955 • 11-18-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.3Win % 38.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.7 during vs 4.6 baseline
-0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.3 during vs 7.5 baseline
-9.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Washington and Lee
1949-1951 • 17-12-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (3 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.8Win % 58.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 3.7 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.8 during vs -8.9 baseline
+11.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+33.3%
Lafayette
1908-1908 • 6-2-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 5.5Win % 70.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Washington and Lee 1951
6-4 • SRS 9.2
Biggest Improvement
Washington and Lee 1950
8-3 • 9.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Washington and Lee 1949
3-5-1 • SRS -5.0
Biggest Drop
North Carolina 1953
4-6 • -10.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| North Carolina | 1955 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -2.6 | — | — | — | +0.2 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| North Carolina | 1954 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | -2.8 | — | — | — | -1.2 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| North Carolina | 1953 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.6 | — | — | — | -10.8 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Washington and Lee | 1951 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 9.2 | — | — | — | +5.1 | -12.7% | Season summary |
| Washington and Lee | 1950 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #18 | 4.1 | — | — | — | +9.1 | +33.8% | Season summary |
| Washington and Lee | 1949 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -5.0 | — | — | — | -10.5 | -31.1% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1908 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 70.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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