Top 25
6-27-2
- Games
- 35
- Win rate
- 20.0%
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Rip Engle
1944-1965 • Brown, Penn State
2 schools coached, anchored by Penn State.
Rip Engle's coaching record is 132-68-8, highlighted by seasons at Penn State from 1944 to 1965.
Rip Engle coached 22 seasons, won 65.4%, and posted an average SRS of 6.2. Best season: 1960 Penn State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 132-68-8
- Career win rate
- 65.4%
- Average SRS
- 6.2
- Peak SRS
- 17.7
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
- 22
- Career span
- 22 years
- Best finish
- #9
- Consistency
- 28.5
Primary school anchor
Penn State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 79.6.
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
- 132-68-8
- Penn State record
- 104-48-4
- Full-season record
- 132-68-8
- Vs AP Top 10
- 4-16
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-7
- Vs Pittsburgh
- 9-6-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
208 countable games, 65.4% win rate.
16 countable seasons at Penn State.
22 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
20 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Keystone Classic games in this dataset.
4 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
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: Dec 4, 1965. 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.
Rip Engle
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Rip Engle: 1950 Penn State
1944Actual season year • SRS range -9.9 to 17.71965
Active comparison point
Rip Engle • 1960
1960 Penn State
Best season7-3 • SRS 17.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.0%
YoY SRS
+4.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#16
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
4-16
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 20.0%
Top 5
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results35
| 1965 Regular Week 3 | Penn State | Michigan State | #9 | L0-23 |
| 1964 Regular Week 9 | Penn State | Ohio State | #7 | W27-0 |
| 1964 Regular Week 2 | Penn State | Navy | #6 | L8-21 |
| 1961 Postseason Week 1 | Penn State | Georgia Tech | #13 | W30-15 |
| 1960 Regular Week 6 | Penn State | Syracuse | #3 | L15-21 |
| 1960 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Missouri | #11 | L8-21 |
| 1959 Regular Week 11 | Penn State | Pittsburgh | #16 | L7-22 |
| 1959 Regular Week 9 | Penn State | Syracuse | #1 | L18-20 |
| 1959 Postseason Week 1 | Penn State | Alabama | #10 | W7-0 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Army | #3 | L0-26 |
| 1957 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Army | #10 | L13-27 |
| 1956 Regular Week 11 | Penn State | Pittsburgh | #12 | T7-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Penn State | Syracuse | #9 | L9-13 |
| 1956 Regular Week 6 | Penn State | Ohio State | #9 | W7-6 |
| 1956 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Army | #15 | L7-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 10 | Penn State | Pittsburgh | #15 | L0-20 |
| 1955 Regular Week 8 | Penn State | Syracuse | #18 | W21-20 |
| 1955 Regular Week 6 | Penn State | West Virginia | #8 | L7-21 |
| 1955 Regular Week 5 | Penn State | Navy | #8 | L14-34 |
| 1955 Regular Week 3 | Penn State | Army | #6 | L6-35 |
| 1954 Regular Week 6 | Penn State | TCU | #20 | L7-20 |
| 1954 Regular Week 5 | Penn State | West Virginia | #14 | L14-19 |
| 1954 Regular Week 2 | Penn State | Illinois | #6 | W14-12 |
| 1953 Regular Week 7 | Penn State | West Virginia | #7 | L19-20 |
| 1953 Regular Week 3 | Penn State | Pennsylvania | #20 | L7-13 |
| 1953 Regular Week 2 | Penn State | Wisconsin | #16 | L0-20 |
| 1952 Regular Week 9 | Penn State | Syracuse | #15 | L7-25 |
| 1952 Regular Week 7 | Penn State | Michigan State | #1 | L7-34 |
| 1952 Regular Week 3 | Penn State | Purdue | #16 | T20-20 |
| 1951 Regular Week 6 | Penn State | Michigan State | #2 | L21-32 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Villanova | #12 | L14-20 |
| 1950 Regular Week 4 | Penn State | Army | #1 | L7-41 |
| 1945 Regular Week 8 | Brown | Columbia | #19 | L6-27 |
| 1945 Regular Week 4 | Brown | Pennsylvania | #7 | L0-50 |
| 1944 Regular Week 7 | Brown | Army | #1 | L7-59 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Penn State
1950-1965 • 16 seasons
Avg SRS 9.7 • Win % 68.0%
Brown
1944-1949 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -3.4 • Win % 57.7%
- Longest tenure
- Penn State • 16 seasons
- Best tenure
- Penn State • 9.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Penn State • 68.0%
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.
Rip Engle
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.
Penn State
1950-1965 • 104-48-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.7Win % 68.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 6.4 baseline
+0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.7 during vs 9.7 baseline
+0.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
31.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
-8.8%
Brown
1944-1949 • 28-20-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -3.4Win % 57.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Penn State 1960
7-3 • SRS 17.7
Biggest Improvement
Penn State 1956
6-2-1 • 14.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Brown 1946
3-5-1 • SRS -9.9
Biggest Drop
Penn State 1955
5-4 • -12.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Penn State | 1965 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 11.9 | — | — | — | -2.0 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1964 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 13.9 | — | — | — | +1.5 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1963 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 12.4 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -11.8% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1962 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #9 | #9 | 17.3 | — | — | — | +2.0 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1961 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | #7 | #17 | 15.3 | — | — | — | -2.4 | +2.7% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1960 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | #19 | #16 | 17.7 | — | — | — | +4.0 | -11.8% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1959 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #12 | 13.7 | — | — | — | +2.4 | +16.8% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1958 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 11.3 | — | — | — | +7.0 | -1.7% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1957 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | #16 | — | 4.3 | — | — | — | -8.6 | -5.6% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1956 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | +14.5 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1955 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -1.6 | — | — | — | -12.5 | -22.2% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1954 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #20 | 10.9 | — | — | — | +0.9 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1953 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 10.0 | — | — | — | +2.3 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1952 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.7 | — | — | — | +6.5 | +19.4% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1951 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 1.2 | — | — | — | +4.5 | -5.6% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1950 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | -3.3 | — | — | — | -1.1 | -27.8% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1949 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | -2.2 | — | — | — | -7.7 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1948 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | +10.3 | +27.8% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1947 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | +5.1 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1946 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -9.9 | — | — | — | -5.1 | -4.9% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1945 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | -0.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Brown | 1944 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | -4.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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