Top 25
3-8
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 27.3%
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Coach Profile
Rod Carey
2012-2021 • Northern Illinois, Temple
2 schools coached, anchored by Northern Illinois.
Rod Carey's coaching record is 64-50, highlighted by seasons at Northern Illinois from 2012 to 2021.
Rod Carey coached 10 seasons, won 56.1%, and posted an average SRS of -2.8. Best season: 2012 Northern Illinois. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 64-50
- Career win rate
- 56.1%
- Average SRS
- -2.8
- Peak SRS
- 5.1
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- #22
- Consistency
- 47.0
Primary school anchor
Northern Illinois
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 47.4.
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
- 64-50
- Northern Illinois record
- 52-30
- Full-season record
- 64-49
- Partial-season record
- 0-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Ball State
- 6-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
114 countable games, 56.1% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Northern Illinois.
9 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Ball State-Northern Illinois games in this dataset.
6 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: Nov 27, 2021. 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.
Rod Carey
EliteStrongAverageLean
Rod Carey: 2019 Temple
2012Actual season year • SRS range -19.7 to 5.12021
Active comparison point
Rod Carey • 2012
2012 Northern Illinois
Best season0-1 • SRS 5.1 • SP Overall 12.4
Win %
0.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
35.6 / 25.4
Finish
#22
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
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results11
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
2019-2021 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -11.2 • Win % 37.5%
Northern Illinois
2012-2018 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -0.4 • Win % 63.4%
- Longest tenure
- Northern Illinois • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Northern Illinois • -0.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Northern Illinois • 63.4%
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.
Rod Carey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRod Carey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Rod Carey
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.6
- Percentile
- 54th 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
2019-2021 • 12-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -11.2Win % 37.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 7.4 baseline
-3.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-11.2 during vs 2.6 baseline
-13.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.0 during vs 3.3 baseline
-11.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Northern Illinois
2012-2018 • 52-30
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.4Win % 63.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.7 during vs 7.2 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.4 during vs -3.8 baseline
+2.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-0.3 during vs -2.7 baseline
+2.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Northern Illinois 2012
0-1 • SRS 5.1
Biggest Improvement
Northern Illinois 2015
8-6 • 4.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northern Illinois 2013
12-2 • SP Off 36.6
Best Defensive Season
Northern Illinois 2017
8-5 • SP Def 20.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Temple 2021
3-9 • SRS -19.7
Biggest Drop
Northern Illinois 2014
11-3 • -9.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Temple | 2021 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -19.7 | -19.1 | 17.5 | 34.1 | — | +10.7% | Season summary |
| Temple | 2020 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 14.3% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -47.3% | Season summary |
| Temple | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -2.7 | 3.2 | 24.6 | 20.8 | +1.8 | +4.4% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2018 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -4.5 | -2.7 | 19.1 | 20.8 | -4.4 | -4.4% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2017 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -0.1 | -1.4 | 21.0 | 20.5 | +3.1 | +19.9% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2016 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -3.2 | -2.4 | 32.0 | 32.7 | -3.1 | -15.5% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2015 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -0.1 | -0.9 | 26.1 | 25.4 | +4.7 | -21.4% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2014 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | — | -4.8 | -0.6 | 29.8 | 29.6 | -9.4 | -7.1% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2013 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | — | 4.6 | 6.3 | 36.6 | 29.8 | -0.5 | +85.7% | Season summary |
| Northern Illinois | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | #22 | 5.1 | 12.4 | 35.6 | 25.4 | — | — | Partial season |
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