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Coach Profile
Matt Rhule
2013-2025 • Baylor, Nebraska, Temple
3 schools coached, anchored by Temple.
Matt Rhule's coaching record is 66-62, highlighted by seasons at Temple from 2013 to 2025.
Matt Rhule coached 10 seasons, won 51.6%, and posted an average SRS of 2.8. Best season: 2019 Baylor. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 66-62
- Career win rate
- 51.6%
- Average SRS
- 2.8
- Peak SRS
- 14.7
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
- 10
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #13
- Consistency
- 50.3
Primary school anchor
Temple
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 72.8.
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
- 66-62
- Temple record
- 28-23
- Full-season record
- 49-53
- Partial-season record
- 10-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-11
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
128 countable games, 51.6% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Temple.
8 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.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 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 31, 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.
Matt Rhule
EliteStrongAverageLean
Matt Rhule: 2017 BaylorMatt Rhule: 2023 Nebraska
2013Actual season year • SRS range -8.5 to 14.72025
Active comparison point
Matt Rhule • 2019
2019 Baylor
Best seasonBiggest improvement11-3 • SRS 14.7 • SP Overall 17.8
Win %
78.6%
YoY SRS
+12.1
SP Off / Def
34.7 / 17.3
Finish
#13
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
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results25
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Nebraska
2023-2025 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 4.1 • Win % 50.0%
Baylor
2017-2019 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 4.4 • Win % 48.7%
Temple
2013-2016 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 0.7 • Win % 54.9%
- Longest tenure
- Temple • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Baylor • 4.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Temple • 54.9%
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.
Matt Rhule sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMatt Rhule sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Matt Rhule
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 3.3
- Percentile
- 68th pct
Above average
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.
Nebraska
2023-2025 • 19-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.1Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 3.4 baseline
+2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.1 during vs 2.3 baseline
+1.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
-1.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Baylor
2017-2019 • 19-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.4Win % 48.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 9.4 baseline
-3.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.4 during vs 16.0 baseline
-11.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.1 during vs 17.2 baseline
-11.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 60.0% baseline
-26.7%
Temple
2013-2016 • 28-23
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.7Win % 54.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 7.0 baseline
-1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.7 during vs -2.3 baseline
+0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-3.1 during vs -5.3 baseline
+2.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Baylor 2019
11-3 • SRS 14.7
Biggest Improvement
Baylor 2019
11-3 • 12.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Baylor 2019
11-3 • SP Off 34.7
Best Defensive Season
Nebraska 2023
5-7 • SP Def 13.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Temple 2013
2-10 • SRS -8.5
Biggest Drop
Nebraska 2023
5-7 • -13.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Nebraska | 2025 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 2.5 | 6.2 | 28.8 | 22.7 | -6.0 | 0.0% | Completed-game fallback |
| Nebraska | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 8.5 | 5.5 | 23.1 | 15.8 | +7.2 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Nebraska | 2023 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 1.3 | 0.3 | 15.6 | 13.9 | -13.4 | -36.9% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2019 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | #13 | 14.7 | 17.8 | 34.7 | 17.3 | +12.1 | +24.7% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2018 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 2.6 | 2.0 | 33.1 | 30.3 | +6.8 | +45.5% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2017 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -4.2 | -1.4 | 26.9 | 29.0 | -12.0 | -68.6% | Season summary |
| Temple | 2016 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 7.8 | 11.9 | 31.5 | 19.8 | +0.4 | +5.5% | Partial season |
| Temple | 2015 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 7.4 | 6.0 | 26.4 | 20.6 | +11.5 | +21.4% | Season summary |
| Temple | 2014 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.1 | -4.7 | 15.8 | 18.9 | +4.4 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Temple | 2013 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -8.5 | -10.7 | 27.6 | 37.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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