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Paul Davis

1908-1966 • Dickinson (PA), Mississippi State, Oklahoma State

3 schools coached, anchored by Mississippi State.

Paul Davis coached 7 seasons, won 47.8%, and posted an average SRS of 5.2. Best season: 1963 Mississippi State. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
31-34-3
Career win rate
47.8%
Average SRS
5.2
Peak SRS
15.4

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
7
Career span
59 years
Best finish
—
Consistency
57.4

Primary school anchor

Mississippi State

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 74.7.

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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.

Compare Paul Davis
Overall record
31-34-3

68 countable games, 47.8% win rate.

Mississippi State record
20-28-2

5 countable seasons at Mississippi State.

Full-season record
31-34-3

7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
1-7-1

9 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
1-7-1

9 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-4

4 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Ole Miss
1-3-1

Egg Bowl games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
1-0

1 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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 26, 1966. 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.

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Paul Davis: 1914 Oklahoma StatePaul Davis: 1962 Mississippi State
1908Actual season year • SRS range -4.7 to 15.41966

Active comparison point

Paul Davis • 1963

Selected

1963 Mississippi State

Best season

7-2-2 • SRS 15.4 • SP Overall —

Win %

72.7%

YoY SRS

+7.8

SP Off / Def

— / —

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
Ranking timing

Top 25

1-7-1

Games
9
Win rate
16.7%

Top 10

1-7-1

Games
9
Win rate
16.7%

Top 5

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results9
1966 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateAlabama#4L14-27
1965 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateAlabama#5L7-10
1964 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateLSU#6L10-14
1964 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateAlabama#2L6-23
1963 Regular Week 12Mississippi StateOle Miss#7T10-10
1963 Regular Week 9Mississippi StateAuburn#9W13-10
1963 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateAlabama#7L19-20
1962 Regular Week 10Mississippi StateLSU#8L0-28
1962 Regular Week 8Mississippi StateAlabama#3L0-20

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Mississippi State

1962-1966 • 5 seasons

Avg SRS 8.3 • Win % 42.0%

Oklahoma State

1914-1914 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -4.7 • Win % 72.2%

Dickinson (PA)

1908-1908 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -0.2 • Win % 55.6%

Longest tenure
Mississippi State • 5 seasons
Best tenure
Mississippi State • 8.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Oklahoma State • 72.2%

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 edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Paul Davis

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
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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.

Mississippi State

1962-1966 • 20-28-2

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

Avg SRS 8.3Win % 42.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.0 during vs 3.6 baseline

+0.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

8.3 during vs 9.2 baseline

-0.9

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Oklahoma State

1914-1914 • 6-2-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -4.7Win % 72.2%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Dickinson (PA)

1908-1908 • 5-4

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -0.2Win % 55.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Mississippi State 1963

7-2-2 • SRS 15.4

Biggest Improvement

Mississippi State 1962

3-6 • 12.3 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Oklahoma State 1914

6-2-1 • SRS -4.7

Biggest Drop

Mississippi State 1964

4-6 • -7.9 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Mississippi State19661028020.0%——1.9———-7.1-20.0%Season summary
Mississippi State19651046040.0%——9.0———+1.50.0%Season summary
Mississippi State19641046040.0%——7.5———-7.9-32.7%Season summary
Mississippi State19631172272.7%——15.4———+7.8+39.4%Season summary
Mississippi State1962936033.3%——7.6———+12.3-38.9%Season summary
Oklahoma State1914962172.2%——-4.7———-4.5+16.7%Season summary
Dickinson (PA)1908954055.6%——-0.2—————Season summary

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