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John Wilce

1913-1928Ohio State

One defining program at Ohio State.

John Wilce coached 16 seasons, won 68.8%, and posted an average SRS of 13.8. Best season: 1917 Ohio State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
78-33-9
Career win rate
68.8%
Average SRS
13.8
Peak SRS
33.6

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
16
Career span
16 years
Best finish
Consistency
11.8

Primary school anchor

Ohio State

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 98.5.

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.

John Wilce
EliteStrongAverageLean
1913Actual season year • SRS range -6.1 to 33.61928

Active comparison point

John Wilce1917

Selected

1917 Ohio State

Best season

8-0-1 • SRS 33.6 • SP Overall

Win %

94.4%

YoY SRS

+17.1

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

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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.

Poll source
Ranking timing
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

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

1913-192816 seasons

Avg SRS 13.8 • Win % 68.8%

Longest tenure
Ohio State • 16 seasons
Best tenure
Ohio State • 13.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Ohio State • 68.8%

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.

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Overall Strength

Decisive edge

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Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

John Wilce

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.

Ohio State

1913-192878-33-9

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 13.8Win % 68.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.9 during vs 6.0 baseline

-1.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

13.8 during vs baseline

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 100.0% baseline

-100.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Ohio State 1917

8-0-1SRS 33.6

Biggest Improvement

Ohio State 1914

5-221.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

Ohio State 1913

4-2-1SRS -6.1

Biggest Drop

Ohio State 1922

3-4-22.6 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Ohio State1928852168.8%10.5+12.6+18.8%
Ohio State1927844050.0%-2.1-21.1-37.5%
Ohio State1926871087.5%19.0+10.8+31.3%
Ohio State1925843156.3%8.20.0+12.5%
Ohio State1924823343.8%8.2+1.50.0%
Ohio State1923834143.8%6.7-2.0+0.9%
Ohio State1922734042.9%8.7-22.6-28.6%
Ohio State1921752071.4%31.3+13.0-16.1%
Ohio State1920871087.5%18.3-2.2+1.8%
Ohio State1919761085.7%20.5+35.7%
Ohio State1918633050.0%-44.4%
Ohio State1917980194.4%33.6+17.1-5.6%
Ohio State19167700100.0%16.5-0.9+21.4%
Ohio State1915751178.6%17.4+1.8+7.1%
Ohio State1914752071.4%15.6+21.7+7.1%
Ohio State1913742164.3%-6.1

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