Coach Profile
2016-2018 • Bowling Green
One defining program at Bowling Green.
Mike Jinks's coaching record is 7-24, highlighted by seasons at Bowling Green from 2016 to 2018.
Mike Jinks coached 3 seasons, won 22.6%, and posted an average SRS of -16.0. Best season: 2016 Bowling Green. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Bowling Green
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 11.1.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
31 countable games, 22.6% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Bowling Green.
2 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.
Bowling Green-Kent State 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 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, 2018. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Active comparison point
4-8 • SRS -12.7 • SP Overall -6.6
Win %
33.3%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
25.0 / 31.8
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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.
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Bowling Green
2016-2018 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -16.0 • Win % 22.6%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Mike Jinks sets the reference point in overall strength.
Mike Jinks sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mike Jinks
Lower end
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
2016-2018 • 7-24
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 8.2 baseline
-5.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-13.5 during vs -2.8 baseline
-10.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.3 during vs 1.2 baseline
-9.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Bowling Green 2016
4-8 • SRS -12.7
Biggest Improvement
Bowling Green 2017
2-10 • -1.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Bowling Green 2017
2-10 • SP Off 27.5
Best Defensive Season
Bowling Green 2016
4-8 • SP Def 31.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Bowling Green 2018
1-6 • SRS -21.0
Biggest Drop
Bowling Green 2018
1-6 • -6.7 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Bowling Green | 2018 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 14.3% | — | — | -21.0 | -22.0 | 24.7 | 43.9 | -6.7 | -2.4% | Partial season |
| Bowling Green | 2017 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -14.3 | -10.0 | 27.5 | 38.9 | -1.6 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Bowling Green | 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -12.7 | -6.6 | 25.0 | 31.8 | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.8
Avg SRS -15.2 • Peak SRS -11.0 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.7
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Avg SRS -17.0 • Peak SRS -13.1 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.1
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Avg SRS -15.4 • Peak SRS -10.9 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.0
Open profile →same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.9
Avg SRS -15.1 • Peak SRS -10.3 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.1
Open profile →same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.6
Avg SRS -15.4 • Peak SRS -11.4 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.0
Open profile →same offense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.4
Avg SRS -16.4 • Peak SRS -8.5 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.6
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