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Bruce Arians
1983-1988 • Temple
One defining program at Temple.
Bruce Arians coached 6 seasons, won 40.9%, and posted an average SRS of 0.3. Best season: 1986 Temple. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 27-39
- Career win rate
- 40.9%
- Average SRS
- 0.3
- Peak SRS
- 7.5
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 57.5
Primary school anchor
Temple
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 55.4.
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.
Bruce Arians
EliteStrongAverageLean
1983Actual season year • SRS range -8.7 to 7.51988
Active comparison point
Bruce Arians • 1986
1986 Temple
Best season6-5 • SRS 7.5 • SP Overall 11.8
Win %
54.5%
YoY SRS
+4.9
SP Off / Def
36.9 / 27.4
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.
Top 10
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
| 1988 Regular Week 3 | Temple | Alabama | #14 | L0-37 |
| 1987 Regular Week 8 | Temple | Florida | #11 | L3-34 |
| 1987 Regular Week 6 | Temple | Penn State | #14 | L13-27 |
| 1986 Regular Week 12 | Temple | Alabama | #9 | L14-24 |
| 1986 Regular Week 2 | Temple | Penn State | #5 | L15-45 |
| 1985 Regular Week 4 | Temple | BYU | #13 | L24-26 |
| 1985 Regular Week 3 | Temple | Penn State | #11 | L25-27 |
| 1984 Regular Week 8 | Temple | Boston College | #4 | L10-24 |
| 1984 Regular Week 6 | Temple | Florida State | #6 | L27-44 |
| 1983 Regular Week 11 | Temple | West Virginia | #15 | L9-27 |
| 1983 Regular Week 10 | Temple | Georgia | #4 | L14-31 |
| 1983 Regular Week 3 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #19 | L0-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Temple
1983-1988 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 0.3 • Win % 40.9%
- Longest tenure
- Temple • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Temple • 0.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Temple • 40.9%
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.
Bruce Arians sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBruce Arians sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bruce Arians
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.8
- Percentile
- 53th pct
Mixed
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.
Temple
1983-1988 • 27-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.3Win % 40.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 6.0 baseline
-1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.3 during vs 5.3 baseline
-5.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-0.8 during vs 8.6 baseline
-9.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Temple 1986
6-5 • SRS 7.5
Biggest Improvement
Temple 1984
6-5 • 9.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Temple 1986
6-5 • SP Off 36.9
Best Defensive Season
Temple 1984
6-5 • SP Def 16.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Temple 1987
3-8 • SRS -8.7
Biggest Drop
Temple 1987
3-8 • -16.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Temple | 1988 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -5.5 | -9.0 | 25.2 | 33.3 | +3.2 | +9.1% |
| Temple | 1987 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -8.7 | -13.0 | 16.0 | 28.0 | -16.2 | -27.3% |
| Temple | 1986 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 7.5 | 11.8 | 36.9 | 27.4 | +4.9 | +18.2% |
| Temple | 1985 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.6 | -0.4 | 24.7 | 25.2 | -4.9 | -18.2% |
| Temple | 1984 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 7.5 | 8.9 | 24.5 | 16.7 | +9.4 | +18.2% |
| Temple | 1983 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -1.9 | -2.8 | 20.8 | 23.7 | — | — |
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