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Coach Profile

Brian Smith

2025-2025 • Ohio

One defining program at Ohio.

Brian Smith coached 1 seasons, won —, and posted an average SRS of -3.5. Best season: 2025 Ohio. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 0-0
Career win rate: —
Average SRS: -3.5
Peak SRS: -3.5

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: 1
Career span: 1 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: —

Primary school anchor

Ohio

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 27.0.

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.

Brian Smith

EliteStrongAverageLean

2024Actual season year • SRS range -4.5 to -2.52026

Active comparison point

Brian Smith • 2025

Selected

2025 Ohio

Best seasonWorst season

0-0 • SRS -3.5 • SP Overall -4.0

Win %

—

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

23.2 / 25.2

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

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

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2025 Regular Week 3	Ohio	Ohio State	#1	L9-37

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

2025-2025 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -3.5 • Win % —

Longest tenure: Ohio • 1 seasons
Best tenure: Ohio • -3.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Ohio • —

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.

Brian Smith sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Brian Smith sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Brian Smith

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall: -4.0
Percentile: 44th 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

2025-2025 • 0-0

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

Avg SRS -3.5Win % —

Avg wins

Higher is better

0.0 during vs 7.2 baseline

-7.2

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-3.5 during vs -5.4 baseline

+1.9

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-4.0 during vs -3.9 baseline

-0.1

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Ohio 2025

0-0 • SRS -3.5

Biggest Improvement

Unavailable

Best Offensive Season

Ohio 2025

0-0 • SP Off 23.2

Best Defensive Season

Ohio 2025

0-0 • SP Def 25.2

Setbacks

Worst Season

Ohio 2025

0-0 • SRS -3.5

Biggest Drop

Unavailable

Season-by-season results

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


Ohio	2025	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-3.5	-4.0	23.2	25.2	—	—

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 0.0

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