Top 25
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Paul Brown
1941-1945 • Great Lakes Navy, Ohio State
2 schools coached, anchored by Ohio State.
Paul Brown coached 5 seasons, won 69.0%, and posted an average SRS of 18.8. Best season: 1944 Great Lakes Navy. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 33-14-3
- Career win rate
- 69.0%
- Average SRS
- 18.8
- Peak SRS
- 26.0
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
- 5 years
- Best finish
- #0
- Consistency
- 43.5
Primary school anchor
Ohio State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 93.6.
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.
Paul Brown
EliteStrongAverageLean
Paul Brown: 1944 Great Lakes Navy
1941Actual season year • SRS range 8.0 to 26.01945
Active comparison point
Paul Brown • 1944
1944 Great Lakes Navy
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Great Lakes Navy9-2-1 • SRS 26.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
79.2%
YoY SRS
+18.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#17
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results6
| 1945 Regular Week 4 | Great Lakes Navy | Purdue | #13 | L6-20 |
| 1945 Regular Week 2 | Great Lakes Navy | Michigan | #13 | L2-27 |
| 1943 Regular Week 7 | Ohio State | Northwestern | #9 | L0-13 |
| 1943 Regular Week 6 | Ohio State | Purdue | #2 | L7-30 |
| 1943 Regular Week 3 | Ohio State | Iowa Pre-Flight | #8 | L13-28 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Ohio State | Northwestern | #10 | L7-14 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Great Lakes Navy
1944-1945 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 24.7 • Win % 69.6%
Ohio State
1941-1943 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 14.9 • Win % 68.5%
- Longest tenure
- Ohio State • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Great Lakes Navy • 24.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Great Lakes Navy • 69.6%
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.
Paul Brown
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.
Great Lakes Navy
1944-1945 • 15-6-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 24.7Win % 69.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Ohio State
1941-1943 • 18-8-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 14.9Win % 68.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.9 during vs 13.7 baseline
+1.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
+60.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Great Lakes Navy 1944
9-2-1 • SRS 26.0
Biggest Improvement
Great Lakes Navy 1944
9-2-1 • 18.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Ohio State 1943
3-6 • SRS 8.0
Biggest Drop
Ohio State 1943
3-6 • -15.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Great Lakes Navy | 1945 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 23.4 | — | — | — | -2.6 | -20.1% |
| Great Lakes Navy | 1944 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 79.2% | — | #17 | 26.0 | — | — | — | +18.0 | +45.8% |
| Ohio State | 1943 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | #0 | #0 | 8.0 | — | — | — | -15.8 | -56.7% |
| Ohio State | 1942 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | #0 | #1 | 23.8 | — | — | — | +11.0 | +8.8% |
| Ohio State | 1941 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 81.3% | #0 | #13 | 12.8 | — | — | — | — | — |
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