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2-24
- Games
- 26
- Win rate
- 7.7%
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Wayne Hardin
1959-1982 • Navy, Temple
2 schools coached, anchored by Temple.
Wayne Hardin's coaching record is 111-71-5, highlighted by seasons at Temple from 1959 to 1982.
Wayne Hardin coached 18 seasons, won 60.7%, and posted an average SRS of 5.2. Best season: 1963 Navy. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 111-71-5
- Career win rate
- 60.7%
- Average SRS
- 5.2
- Peak SRS
- 19.6
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
- 18
- Career span
- 24 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 38.0
Primary school anchor
Temple
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 83.3.
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
- 111-71-5
- Temple record
- 73-49-3
- Full-season record
- 111-71-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-18
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-11
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
187 countable games, 60.7% win rate.
12 countable seasons at Temple.
18 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
19 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 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 20, 1982. 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.
Wayne Hardin
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Wayne Hardin: 1971 Temple
1959Actual season year • SRS range -7.9 to 19.61982
Active comparison point
Wayne Hardin • 1963
1963 Navy
Best season9-2 • SRS 19.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
+12.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#2
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
1-18
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 5.3%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results26
| 1982 Regular Week 10 | Temple | West Virginia | #17 | L17-20 |
| 1982 Regular Week 7 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #3 | L7-38 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | Temple | Boston College | #18 | L7-17 |
| 1981 Regular Week 12 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #1 | L0-35 |
| 1981 Regular Week 9 | Temple | Georgia | #5 | L3-49 |
| 1981 Regular Week 5 | Temple | Penn State | #2 | L0-30 |
| 1980 Regular Week 12 | Temple | Penn State | #7 | L7-50 |
| 1980 Regular Week 5 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #6 | L2-36 |
| 1979 Regular Week 12 | Temple | Penn State | #20 | L7-22 |
| 1978 Regular Week 4 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #9 | L12-20 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | Temple | Penn State | #9 | L7-44 |
| 1977 Regular Week 4 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #16 | L0-76 |
| 1976 Regular Week 4 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #2 | L7-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 10 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #19 | L24-35 |
| 1964 Regular Week 8 | Navy | Notre Dame | #1 | L0-40 |
| 1964 Regular Week 4 | Navy | Michigan | #5 | L0-21 |
| 1963 Regular Week 7 | Navy | Pittsburgh | #10 | W24-12 |
| 1963 Postseason Week 1 | Navy | Texas | #1 | L6-28 |
| 1962 Regular Week 10 | Navy | USC | #1 | L6-13 |
| 1962 Regular Week 2 | Navy | Penn State | #4 | L7-41 |
| 1961 Regular Week 2 | Navy | Penn State | #8 | L10-20 |
| 1960 Regular Week 9 | Navy | Duke | #7 | L10-19 |
| 1960 Regular Week 4 | Navy | Washington | #12 | W15-14 |
| 1960 Postseason Week 1 | Navy | Missouri | #5 | L14-21 |
| 1959 Regular Week 5 | Navy | Syracuse | #8 | L6-32 |
| 1959 Regular Week 4 | Navy | SMU | #15 | L7-20 |
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
1971-1982 • 12 seasons
Avg SRS 2.8 • Win % 59.6%
Navy
1959-1964 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 9.8 • Win % 62.9%
- Longest tenure
- Temple • 12 seasons
- Best tenure
- Navy • 9.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Navy • 62.9%
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.
Wayne Hardin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeWayne Hardin sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Wayne Hardin
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 6.9
- Percentile
- 77th pct
Strong
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
1971-1982 • 73-49-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 2.8Win % 59.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Navy
1959-1964 • 38-22-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.8Win % 62.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 7.0 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.8 during vs 13.0 baseline
-3.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 80.0% baseline
-46.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Navy 1963
9-2 • SRS 19.6
Biggest Improvement
Temple 1979
10-2 • 20.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Temple 1979
10-2 • SP Off 41.7
Best Defensive Season
Temple 1981
5-5 • SP Def 14.6
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Temple 1972
5-4 • SRS -7.9
Biggest Drop
Temple 1980
4-7 • -25.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Temple | 1982 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 4.4 | 3.9 | 25.6 | 22.7 | -5.5 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1981 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 9.9 | 19.0 | 32.3 | 14.6 | +15.9 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1980 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -6.0 | -6.1 | 21.0 | 26.9 | -25.1 | -47.0% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1979 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | #17 | 19.1 | 24.9 | 41.7 | 18.7 | +20.1 | +15.2% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1978 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | -1.0 | 1.5 | 25.1 | 23.7 | +0.2 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1977 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -1.2 | 9.6 | 35.0 | 27.3 | +0.2 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1976 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.4 | -4.2 | 22.3 | 26.6 | -0.7 | -14.5% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1975 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.7 | 6.5 | 30.7 | 26.1 | -12.1 | -25.4% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1974 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 11.4 | 16.6 | 37.4 | 22.8 | +7.0 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1973 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | 4.4 | 10.3 | 35.7 | 27.4 | +12.3 | +34.4% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1972 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -7.9 | -7.1 | 22.2 | 28.7 | -10.8 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Temple | 1971 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 2.9 | 8.2 | 26.6 | 19.1 | -2.3 | +37.2% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1964 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | #10 | — | 5.2 | — | — | — | -14.4 | -46.8% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1963 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #9 | #2 | 19.6 | — | — | — | +12.0 | +31.8% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1962 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | -0.8 | -20.0% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1961 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 8.4 | — | — | — | -4.7 | -11.8% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1960 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #4 | 13.1 | — | — | — | +8.2 | +26.8% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 4.9 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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