Top 25
19-20-2
- Games
- 41
- Win rate
- 48.8%
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Bud Wilkinson
1947-1963 • Oklahoma
One defining program at Oklahoma.
Bud Wilkinson coached 17 seasons, won 82.6%, and posted an average SRS of 19.2. Best season: 1956 Oklahoma. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 145-29-4
- Career win rate
- 82.6%
- Average SRS
- 19.2
- Peak SRS
- 29.9
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
- 17
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 49.8
Primary school anchor
Oklahoma
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 96.8.
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.
Bud Wilkinson
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1947Actual season year • SRS range 6.5 to 29.91963
Active comparison point
Bud Wilkinson • 1956
1956 Oklahoma
Best season10-0 • SRS 29.9 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#1
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
8-18
- Games
- 26
- Win rate
- 30.8%
Top 5
3-8
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 27.3%
View ranked game results41
| 1963 Regular Week 11 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #7 | L20-29 |
| 1963 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #1 | L7-28 |
| 1963 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | USC | #8 | W17-12 |
| 1962 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #1 | L6-9 |
| 1962 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Alabama | #5 | L0-17 |
| 1961 Regular Week 7 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #8 | L14-22 |
| 1961 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #3 | L7-28 |
| 1960 Regular Week 10 | Oklahoma | Missouri | #1 | L19-41 |
| 1960 Regular Week 8 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #18 | L0-7 |
| 1960 Regular Week 6 | Oklahoma | Kansas | #15 | T13-13 |
| 1960 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #11 | L0-24 |
| 1960 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | Northwestern | #6 | L3-19 |
| 1959 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #3 | L12-19 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | Northwestern | #2 | L13-45 |
| 1958 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #7 | L14-15 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Oklahoma | Oregon | #15 | W6-0 |
| 1958 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Syracuse | #9 | W21-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 10 | Oklahoma | Notre Dame | #9 | L0-7 |
| 1957 Regular Week 7 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #18 | W14-13 |
| 1957 Regular Week 2 | Oklahoma | Pittsburgh | #16 | W26-0 |
| 1957 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Duke | #16 | W48-21 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #18 | W27-19 |
| 1955 Regular Week 6 | Oklahoma | Colorado | #14 | W56-21 |
| 1955 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | Pittsburgh | #12 | W26-14 |
| 1955 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Maryland | #3 | W20-6 |
| 1954 Regular Week 4 | Oklahoma | Texas | #15 | W14-7 |
| 1954 Regular Week 2 | Oklahoma | TCU | #20 | W21-16 |
| 1954 Regular Week 1 | Oklahoma | California | #12 | W27-13 |
| 1953 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | Pittsburgh | #17 | T7-7 |
| 1953 Regular Week 2 | Oklahoma | Notre Dame | #1 | L21-28 |
| 1953 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Maryland | #1 | W7-0 |
| 1952 Regular Week 9 | Oklahoma | Notre Dame | #9 | L21-27 |
| 1952 Regular Week 6 | Oklahoma | Kansas | #9 | W42-20 |
| 1952 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #20 | W49-20 |
| 1951 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #10 | L7-9 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Oklahoma | Texas A&M | #6 | L7-14 |
| 1950 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #7 | W14-13 |
| 1950 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Kentucky | #7 | L7-13 |
| 1949 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | LSU | #9 | W35-0 |
| 1948 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | North Carolina | #3 | W14-6 |
| 1947 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Texas | #8 | L14-34 |
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
1947-1963 • 17 seasons
Avg SRS 19.2 • Win % 82.6%
- Longest tenure
- Oklahoma • 17 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 19.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 82.6%
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 edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bud Wilkinson
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- 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.
Oklahoma
1947-1963 • 145-29-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 19.2Win % 82.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.5 during vs 5.8 baseline
+2.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
19.2 during vs 4.7 baseline
+14.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
88.2% during vs 20.0% baseline
+68.2%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oklahoma 1956
10-0 • SRS 29.9
Biggest Improvement
Oklahoma 1962
8-3 • 14.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Oklahoma 1960
3-6-1 • SRS 6.5
Biggest Drop
Oklahoma 1959
7-3 • -10.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Oklahoma | 1963 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #4 | #10 | 16.2 | — | — | — | -6.5 | +7.3% |
| Oklahoma | 1962 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | #8 | 22.7 | — | — | — | +14.9 | +22.7% |
| Oklahoma | 1961 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.8 | — | — | — | +1.3 | +15.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1960 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | #10 | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | -7.7 | -35.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1959 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | #2 | #15 | 14.2 | — | — | — | -10.6 | -20.9% |
| Oklahoma | 1958 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | #2 | #5 | 24.8 | — | — | — | +2.9 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1957 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | #1 | #4 | 21.9 | — | — | — | -8.0 | -9.1% |
| Oklahoma | 1956 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #1 | #1 | 29.9 | — | — | — | +6.8 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1955 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #2 | #1 | 23.1 | — | — | — | +4.5 | 0.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1954 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #2 | #3 | 18.6 | — | — | — | -1.8 | +13.6% |
| Oklahoma | 1953 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 86.4% | #6 | #4 | 20.4 | — | — | — | -7.4 | +1.4% |
| Oklahoma | 1952 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 85.0% | #4 | #4 | 27.8 | — | — | — | +8.3 | +5.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1951 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | #4 | #10 | 19.5 | — | — | — | +0.6 | -10.9% |
| Oklahoma | 1950 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | #6 | #1 | 18.9 | — | — | — | -7.8 | -9.1% |
| Oklahoma | 1949 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #2 | 26.7 | — | — | — | +7.3 | +9.1% |
| Oklahoma | 1948 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #5 | 19.4 | — | — | — | +11.5 | +15.9% |
| Oklahoma | 1947 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | #16 | 7.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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