Top 25
5-17
- Games
- 22
- Win rate
- 22.7%
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Coach Profile
Dino Babers
2014-2023 • Bowling Green, Syracuse
2 schools coached, anchored by Syracuse.
Dino Babers's coaching record is 59-64, highlighted by seasons at Syracuse from 2014 to 2023.
Dino Babers coached 10 seasons, won 48.0%, and posted an average SRS of 0.0. Best season: 2018 Syracuse. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 59-64
- Career win rate
- 48.0%
- Average SRS
- 0.0
- Peak SRS
- 12.1
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 37.1
Primary school anchor
Syracuse
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 66.6.
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
- 59-64
- Syracuse record
- 41-55
- Full-season record
- 44-55
- Partial-season record
- 15-9
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-8
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-7
- Vs Pittsburgh
- 1-6
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
123 countable games, 48.0% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Syracuse.
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.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
8 games using AP ranking at game time.
Pittsburgh-Syracuse games in this dataset.
3 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 22, 2023. 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.
Dino Babers
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dino Babers: 2016 Syracuse
2014Actual season year • SRS range -13.4 to 12.12023
Active comparison point
Dino Babers • 2018
2018 Syracuse
Best season10-3 • SRS 12.1 • SP Overall 7.5
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+11.1
SP Off / Def
32.1 / 27.4
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
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
Top 5
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
View ranked game results22
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Syracuse
2016-2023 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 0.7 • Win % 42.7%
Bowling Green
2014-2015 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -2.5 • Win % 66.7%
- Longest tenure
- Syracuse • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Syracuse • 0.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Bowling Green • 66.7%
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.
Dino Babers sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDino Babers sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dino Babers
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 0.7
- Percentile
- 60th 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.
Syracuse
2016-2023 • 41-55
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.7Win % 42.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.1 during vs 5.2 baseline
-0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.9 during vs 0.2 baseline
+0.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.4 during vs -0.6 baseline
+2.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Bowling Green
2014-2015 • 18-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.5Win % 66.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 6.4 baseline
+1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-13.4 during vs -7.0 baseline
-6.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.4 during vs -4.6 baseline
-0.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Syracuse 2018
10-3 • SRS 12.1
Biggest Improvement
Bowling Green 2015
10-3 • 21.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Bowling Green 2015
10-3 • SP Off 39.4
Best Defensive Season
Syracuse 2022
7-6 • SP Def 24.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Bowling Green 2014
8-6 • SRS -13.4
Biggest Drop
Syracuse 2019
5-7 • -18.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Syracuse | 2023 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -0.4 | -4.4 | 22.2 | 26.1 | -4.9 | -8.4% | Partial season |
| Syracuse | 2022 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 4.5 | 2.5 | 27.4 | 24.7 | +3.4 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2021 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 1.1 | 0.3 | 27.1 | 25.2 | — | +32.6% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2020 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -32.6% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2019 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #22 | — | -6.5 | -3.0 | 24.5 | 29.6 | -18.6 | -35.3% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2018 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 12.1 | 7.5 | 32.1 | 27.4 | +11.1 | +43.6% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2017 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 1.0 | 4.0 | 29.3 | 27.3 | +7.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Syracuse | 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -6.9 | -2.7 | 29.2 | 31.2 | -15.4 | -43.6% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 2015 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 8.5 | 7.5 | 39.4 | 32.1 | +21.9 | +19.8% | Partial season |
| Bowling Green | 2014 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -13.4 | -5.4 | 27.7 | 33.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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