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Carroll Widdoes
1944-1945 • Ohio State
One defining program at Ohio State.
Carroll Widdoes's coaching record is 16-2, highlighted by seasons at Ohio State from 1944 to 1945.
Carroll Widdoes coached 2 seasons, won 88.9%, and posted an average SRS of 25.6. Best season: 1944 Ohio State. The profile was balanced with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 16-2
- Career win rate
- 88.9%
- Average SRS
- 25.6
- Peak SRS
- 29.8
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
- 2
- Career span
- 2 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- —
Primary school anchor
Ohio State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 96.7.
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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
- 16-2
- Ohio State record
- 16-2
- Full-season record
- 16-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs Michigan
- 1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
18 countable games, 88.9% win rate.
2 countable seasons at Ohio State.
2 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
The Game 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.
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 24, 1945. 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.
Carroll Widdoes
EliteStrongAverageLean
1944Actual season year • SRS range 21.5 to 29.81945
Active comparison point
Carroll Widdoes • 1944
1944 Ohio State
Best season9-0 • SRS 29.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#2
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
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View ranked game results1
| 1945 Regular Week 7 | Ohio State | Purdue | #18 | L13-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Ohio State
1944-1945 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 25.6 • Win % 88.9%
- Longest tenure
- Ohio State • 2 seasons
- Best tenure
- Ohio State • 25.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Ohio State • 88.9%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Carroll Widdoes
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
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- Percentile
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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.
Ohio State
1944-1945 • 16-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 25.6Win % 88.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 5.6 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
25.6 during vs 14.7 baseline
+11.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
100.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
+20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Ohio State 1944
9-0 • SRS 29.8
Biggest Improvement
Ohio State 1945
7-2 • -8.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Ohio State 1945
7-2 • SRS 21.5
Biggest Drop
Ohio State 1945
7-2 • -8.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ohio State | 1945 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | #0 | #12 | 21.5 | — | — | — | -8.3 | -22.2% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 1944 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #0 | #2 | 29.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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