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Coach Profile
Tony Mason
1973-1979 • Arizona, Cincinnati
2 schools coached, anchored by Cincinnati.
Tony Mason's coaching record is 41-37-1, highlighted by seasons at Cincinnati from 1973 to 1979.
Tony Mason coached 7 seasons, won 52.5%, and posted an average SRS of 5.1. Best season: 1978 Arizona. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 41-37-1
- Career win rate
- 52.5%
- Average SRS
- 5.1
- Peak SRS
- 11.3
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 85.0
Primary school anchor
Cincinnati
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 64.9.
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
- 41-37-1
- Cincinnati record
- 25-19
- Full-season record
- 41-37-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Miami (OH)
- 1-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
79 countable games, 52.5% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Cincinnati.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle for the Bell games in this dataset.
1 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 25, 1979. 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.
Tony Mason
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tony Mason: 1977 Arizona
1973Actual season year • SRS range -1.0 to 11.31979
Active comparison point
Tony Mason • 1978
1978 Arizona
Best seasonBiggest improvement5-6 • SRS 11.3 • SP Overall 7.8
Win %
45.5%
YoY SRS
+7.9
SP Off / Def
28.4 / 21.3
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
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results15
| 1979 Regular Week 10 | Arizona | USC | #4 | L7-34 |
| 1979 Postseason Week 1 | Arizona | Pittsburgh | #7 | L10-16 |
| 1978 Regular Week 10 | Arizona | Washington | #19 | L21-31 |
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Arizona | UCLA | #9 | L14-24 |
| 1978 Regular Week 6 | Arizona | Michigan | #5 | L17-21 |
| 1977 Regular Week 13 | Arizona | Arizona State | #15 | L7-23 |
| 1977 Regular Week 9 | Arizona | BYU | #14 | L14-34 |
| 1977 Regular Week 6 | Arizona | Texas Tech | #15 | L26-32 |
| 1976 Regular Week 10 | Cincinnati | Maryland | #6 | L0-21 |
| 1976 Regular Week 9 | Cincinnati | Georgia | #7 | L17-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 12 | Cincinnati | Miami (OH) | #16 | L13-21 |
| 1975 Regular Week 10 | Cincinnati | Maryland | #16 | L19-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 11 | Cincinnati | Miami (OH) | #12 | L7-27 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | Cincinnati | Temple | #19 | W22-20 |
| 1973 Regular Week 12 | Cincinnati | Miami (OH) | #15 | L0-6 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arizona
1977-1979 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 7.0 • Win % 47.1%
Cincinnati
1973-1976 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 3.8 • Win % 56.8%
- Longest tenure
- Cincinnati • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arizona • 7.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cincinnati • 56.8%
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.
Tony Mason sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTony Mason sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tony Mason
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 7.8
- Percentile
- 80th 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.
Arizona
1977-1979 • 16-18-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.0Win % 47.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 7.0 baseline
-1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 3.9 baseline
+3.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.2 during vs 3.5 baseline
+0.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Cincinnati
1973-1976 • 25-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.8Win % 56.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.8 during vs -10.4 baseline
+14.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.6 during vs -5.0 baseline
+15.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Arizona 1978
5-6 • SRS 11.3
Biggest Improvement
Arizona 1978
5-6 • 7.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Arizona 1978
5-6 • SP Off 28.4
Best Defensive Season
Cincinnati 1976
8-3 • SP Def 8.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Cincinnati 1973
4-7 • SRS -1.0
Biggest Drop
Arizona 1977
5-7 • -6.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arizona | 1979 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 54.2% | — | — | 6.2 | 4.4 | 26.5 | 23.0 | -5.1 | +8.7% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 11.3 | 7.8 | 28.4 | 21.3 | +7.9 | +3.8% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 1977 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 3.4 | 0.3 | 25.7 | 25.8 | -6.2 | -31.1% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1976 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 9.6 | 17.4 | 25.1 | 8.3 | +6.8 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1975 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 2.8 | 12.6 | 27.2 | 15.1 | -0.8 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1974 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 3.6 | 4.0 | 24.2 | 20.6 | +4.6 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1973 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -1.0 | 8.2 | 20.3 | 12.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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