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Tom Lichtenberg

1990-1994 • Ohio

One defining program at Ohio.

Tom Lichtenberg's coaching record is 8-45-2, highlighted by seasons at Ohio from 1990 to 1994.

Tom Lichtenberg coached 5 seasons, won 16.4%, and posted an average SRS of -25.1. Best season: 1992 Ohio. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 8-45-2
Career win rate: 16.4%
Average SRS: -25.1
Peak SRS: -19.7

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: —
Consistency: 82.9

Primary school anchor

Ohio

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 4.9.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Tom Lichtenberg

Overall record: 8-45-2
Ohio record: 8-45-2
Full-season record: 8-45-2
Vs AP Top 25: 0-4
Vs AP Top 10: 0-0
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Vs Miami (OH): 1-4
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

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 19, 1994. 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.

Tom Lichtenberg

EliteStrongAverageLean

1990Actual season year • SRS range -30.2 to -19.71994

Active comparison point

Tom Lichtenberg • 1992

Selected

1992 Ohio

Best season

1-10 • SRS -19.7 • SP Overall -17.7

Win %

9.1%

YoY SRS

+1.3

SP Off / Def

11.9 / 29.5

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.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-4

Games: 4
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

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1993 Regular Week 6	Ohio	Virginia	#21	L7-41
1993 Regular Week 2	Ohio	North Carolina	#16	L3-44
1991 Regular Week 13	Ohio	Tulsa	#23	L13-45
1990 Regular Week 2	Ohio	Pittsburgh	#17	L3-35

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

1990-1994 • 5 seasons

Avg SRS -25.1 • Win % 16.4%

Longest tenure: Ohio • 5 seasons
Best tenure: Ohio • -25.1 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Ohio • 16.4%

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.

Tom Lichtenberg sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Tom Lichtenberg sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Tom Lichtenberg

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -20.4
Percentile: 7th pct

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

1990-1994 • 8-45-2

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

Avg SRS -25.1Win % 16.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

1.6 during vs 1.8 baseline

-0.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-25.1 during vs -23.1 baseline

-2.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-20.4 during vs -19.4 baseline

-1.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Ohio 1992

1-10 • SRS -19.7

Biggest Improvement

Ohio 1991

2-8-1 • 9.2 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Ohio 1991

2-8-1 • SP Off 18.3

Best Defensive Season

Ohio 1992

1-10 • SP Def 29.5

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Ohio 1990

1-9-1 • SRS -30.2

Biggest Drop

Ohio 1993

4-7 • -6.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Ohio	1994	11	0	11	0	0.0%	—	—	-28.9	-25.7	6.4	30.7	-3.0	-36.4%	Season summary
Ohio	1993	11	4	7	0	36.4%	—	—	-25.9	-17.2	14.3	31.2	-6.2	+27.3%	Season summary
Ohio	1992	11	1	10	0	9.1%	—	—	-19.7	-17.7	11.9	29.5	+1.3	-13.6%	Season summary
Ohio	1991	11	2	8	1	22.7%	—	—	-21.0	-16.9	18.3	34.2	+9.2	+9.1%	Season summary
Ohio	1990	11	1	9	1	13.6%	—	—	-30.2	-24.5	15.4	37.4	—	—	Season summary