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9-7
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 56.3%
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Brent Venables
2022-2025 • Oklahoma
One defining program at Oklahoma.
Brent Venables coached 4 seasons, won 56.4%, and posted an average SRS of 12.3. Best season: 2023 Oklahoma. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 22-17
- Career win rate
- 56.4%
- Average SRS
- 12.3
- Peak SRS
- 19.1
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- #15
- Consistency
- 80.6
Primary school anchor
Oklahoma
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 82.3.
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.
Brent Venables
EliteStrongAverageLean
2022Actual season year • SRS range 7.0 to 19.12025
Active comparison point
Brent Venables • 2023
2023 Oklahoma
Best seasonBiggest improvement10-3 • SRS 19.1 • SP Overall 15.0
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+8.9
SP Off / Def
38.5 / 22.6
Finish
#15
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.
Top 10
3-4
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 42.9%
Top 5
2-1
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 66.7%
View ranked game results16
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Oklahoma
2022-2025 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 12.3 • Win % 56.4%
- Longest tenure
- Oklahoma • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 12.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 56.4%
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.
Brent Venables sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBrent Venables sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Brent Venables
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 14.6
- Percentile
- 93th pct
Elite
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.
Oklahoma
2022-2025 • 22-17
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.3Win % 56.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 10.1 baseline
-4.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.3 during vs 18.8 baseline
-6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.6 during vs 21.6 baseline
-7.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-55.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oklahoma 2023
10-3 • SRS 19.1
Biggest Improvement
Oklahoma 2023
10-3 • 8.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Oklahoma 2022
6-7 • SP Off 40.8
Best Defensive Season
Oklahoma 2025
0-0 • SP Def 12.9
Setbacks
Worst Season
Oklahoma 2024
6-7 • SRS 7.0
Biggest Drop
Oklahoma 2024
6-7 • -12.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Oklahoma | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 12.7 | 18.3 | 30.1 | 12.9 | +5.7 | — |
| Oklahoma | 2024 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | #16 | — | 7.0 | 9.5 | 25.9 | 17.8 | -12.1 | -30.8% |
| Oklahoma | 2023 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #20 | #15 | 19.1 | 15.0 | 38.5 | 22.6 | +8.9 | +30.8% |
| Oklahoma | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | #9 | — | 10.2 | 15.4 | 40.8 | 26.5 | — | — |
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