Villanova
1974-1974 • 3-5
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -14.3Win % 37.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Longevity CoachDefense-First
Coach Profile
Jim Weaver
College football coaching record, Wake Forest years & career stats
1933-1974 • Villanova, Wake Forest
2 schools coached, anchored by Wake Forest.
Jim Weaver's coaching record is 13-28-1, highlighted by seasons at Wake Forest from 1933 to 1974.
Jim Weaver coached 5 seasons, won 32.1%, and posted an average SRS of -9.5. Best season: 1936 Wake Forest. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 13-28-1
- Career win rate
- 32.1%
- Average SRS
- -9.5
- Peak SRS
- -0.3
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
- 5
- Career span
- 42 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 71.8
Primary school anchor
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 34.2.
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
- 13-28-1
- Wake Forest record
- 10-23-1
- Full-season record
- 10-23-1
- Partial-season record
- 3-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs NC State
- 2-1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
42 countable games, 32.1% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Wake Forest.
4 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.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
NC State-Wake Forest games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career Résumé
Jim Weaver season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 1
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
20% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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 23, 1974. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Jim Weaver
Who is Jim Weaver?
Jim Weaver is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Wake Forest, with a 13-28-1 career record from 1933-1974 across 5 countable seasons.
What is Jim Weaver's college football coaching record?
Jim Weaver's college football coaching record is 13-28-1 across 5 countable seasons, anchored by Wake Forest.
Which schools did Jim Weaver coach?
Jim Weaver coached at Villanova, Wake Forest in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Jim Weaver have?
Jim Weaver had 1 winning season across 5 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Jim Weaver have?
Jim Weaver had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Jim Weaver have?
Jim Weaver recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Jim Weaver coach at Wake Forest?
Jim Weaver's Wake Forest head coach years were 1933-1936, covering 4 countable seasons with a 10-23-1 record.
How did Jim Weaver do against ranked opponents?
Jim Weaver's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-0.
How does CFBTrack count Jim Weaver's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Jim Weaver 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Jim Weaver
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jim Weaver: 1974 Villanova
1933Actual season year • SRS range -14.7 to -0.31974
Active comparison point
Jim Weaver • 1936
1936 Wake Forest
Best seasonBiggest improvement5-4 • SRS -0.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
55.6%
YoY SRS
+9.7
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Wake Forest • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Wake Forest • -8.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Villanova • 37.5%
Style and Strength Profile
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Jim Weaver sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Weaver
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.1
- Percentile
- 25th pct
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Jim Weaver coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Wake Forest
1933-1936 • 10-23-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.3Win % 30.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.5 during vs 4.0 baseline
-1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-8.3 during vs -14.1 baseline
+5.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Wake Forest 1936
5-4 • SRS -0.3
Biggest Improvement
Wake Forest 1936
5-4 • 9.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Villanova 1974
3-5 • SP Off 13.5
Best Defensive Season
Villanova 1974
3-5 • SP Def 23.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Wake Forest 1933
0-5-1 • SRS -14.7
Biggest Drop
Villanova 1974
3-5 • -14.0 SRS
Jim Weaver coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| Villanova | 1974 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.5% | — | — | -14.3 | -11.1 | 13.5 | 23.8 | -14.0 | -18.1% | Partial |
| Wake ForestBest | 1936 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -0.3 | — | — | — | +9.7 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1935 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -10.0 | — | — | — | -1.9 | -7.8% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1934 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -8.1 | — | — | — | +6.6 | +21.7% | Season summary |
| Wake ForestLowest | 1933 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8.3% | — | — | -14.7 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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