Top 25
1-7-1
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 16.7%
Longevity CoachBalanced
Coach Profile
Paul Davis
College football coaching record, Mississippi State years & career stats
1908-1966 • Dickinson (PA), Mississippi State, Oklahoma State
3 schools coached, anchored by Mississippi State.
Paul Davis's coaching record is 31-34-3, highlighted by seasons at Mississippi State from 1908 to 1966.
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.
- 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
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 74.7.
Quick Answers
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
- 31-34-3
- Mississippi State record
- 20-28-2
- Full-season record
- 31-34-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-7-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-4
- Vs Ole Miss
- 1-3-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
68 countable games, 47.8% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Mississippi State.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
Egg Bowl games in this dataset.
1 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career Résumé
Paul Davis season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 3
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
43% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
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.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Paul Davis
Who is Paul Davis?
Paul Davis is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Mississippi State, with a 31-34-3 career record from 1908-1966 across 7 countable seasons.
What is Paul Davis's college football coaching record?
Paul Davis's college football coaching record is 31-34-3 across 7 countable seasons, anchored by Mississippi State.
Which schools did Paul Davis coach?
Paul Davis coached at Dickinson (PA), Mississippi State, Oklahoma State in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Paul Davis have?
Paul Davis had 3 winning seasons across 7 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Paul Davis have?
Paul Davis had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Paul Davis have?
Paul Davis recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Paul Davis coach at Mississippi State?
Paul Davis's Mississippi State head coach years were 1962-1966, covering 5 countable seasons with a 20-28-2 record.
How did Paul Davis do against ranked opponents?
Paul Davis's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 1-7-1 across 9 games.
How does CFBTrack count Paul Davis's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Paul Davis 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 the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Paul Davis
EliteStrongAverageLean
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
1963 Mississippi State
Best season7-2-2 • SRS 15.4 • SP Overall —
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+7.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
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
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 8 | Mississippi State | Alabama | #4 | L14-27 |
| 1965 Regular Week 8 | Mississippi State | Alabama | #5 | L7-10 |
| 1964 Regular Week 10 | Mississippi State | LSU | #6 | L10-14 |
| 1964 Regular Week 8 | Mississippi State | Alabama | #2 | L6-23 |
| 1963 Regular Week 12 | Mississippi State | Ole Miss | #7 | T10-10 |
| 1963 Regular Week 9 | Mississippi State | Auburn | #9 | W13-10 |
| 1963 Regular Week 8 | Mississippi State | Alabama | #7 | L19-20 |
| 1962 Regular Week 10 | Mississippi State | LSU | #8 | L0-28 |
| 1962 Regular Week 8 | Mississippi State | Alabama | #3 | L0-20 |
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- 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
Read 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.
Overall Strength
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Paul Davis
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Paul Davis coaching record 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
Paul Davis coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
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| Mississippi State | 1966 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | -7.1 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 9.0 | — | — | — | +1.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 1964 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 7.5 | — | — | — | -7.9 | -32.7% | Season summary |
| Mississippi StateBest | 1963 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 72.7% | — | — | 15.4 | — | — | — | +7.8 | +39.4% | Season summary |
| Mississippi State | 1962 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | +12.3 | -38.9% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma StateLowest | 1914 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | -4.7 | — | — | — | -4.5 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Dickinson (PA) | 1908 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -0.2 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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