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1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
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Phil Bennett
2002-2022 • North Texas, Pittsburgh, SMU
3 schools coached, anchored by SMU.
Phil Bennett's coaching record is 19-53, highlighted by seasons at SMU from 2002 to 2022.
Phil Bennett coached 8 seasons, won 26.4%, and posted an average SRS of -11.6. Best season: 2010 Pittsburgh. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 19-53
- Career win rate
- 26.4%
- Average SRS
- -11.6
- Peak SRS
- 8.4
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
- 8
- Career span
- 21 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 12.7
Primary school anchor
SMU
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 57.3.
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
- 19-53
- SMU record
- 18-52
- Full-season record
- 18-52
- Partial-season record
- 1-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs TCU
- 1-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
72 countable games, 26.4% win rate.
6 countable seasons at SMU.
6 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.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle for the Iron Skillet games in this dataset.
0 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 18, 2022. 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.
Phil Bennett
EliteStrongAverageLean
Phil Bennett: 2010 PittsburghPhil Bennett: 2022 North Texas
2002Actual season year • SRS range -24.1 to 8.42022
Active comparison point
Phil Bennett • 2010
2010 Pittsburgh
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Pittsburgh1-0 • SRS 8.4 • SP Overall 11.3
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+25.4
SP Off / Def
29.7 / 18.7
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
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results5
| 2006 Regular Week 1 | SMU | Texas Tech | #25 | L3-35 |
| 2005 Regular Week 2 | SMU | TCU | #22 | W21-10 |
| 2004 Regular Week 13 | SMU | UTEP | #24 | L27-57 |
| 2004 Regular Week 6 | SMU | Boise State | #23 | L20-38 |
| 2003 Regular Week 15 | SMU | TCU | #19 | L13-20 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
North Texas
2022-2022 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -4.6 • Win % 0.0%
Pittsburgh
2010-2010 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 8.4 • Win % 100.0%
SMU
2002-2007 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -16.1 • Win % 25.7%
- Longest tenure
- SMU • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Pittsburgh • 8.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Pittsburgh • 100.0%
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.
Phil Bennett sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgePhil Bennett sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Phil Bennett
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.6
- Percentile
- 23th pct
Lower end
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.
North Texas
2022-2022 • 0-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -4.6Win % 0.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Pittsburgh
2010-2010 • 1-0
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 8.4Win % 100.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
SMU
2002-2007 • 18-52
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -16.1Win % 25.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 4.4 baseline
-1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-16.1 during vs -9.8 baseline
-6.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-17.1 during vs -9.9 baseline
-7.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Pittsburgh 2010
1-0 • SRS 8.4
Biggest Improvement
Pittsburgh 2010
1-0 • 25.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
North Texas 2022
0-1 • SP Off 31.3
Best Defensive Season
Pittsburgh 2010
1-0 • SP Def 18.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
SMU 2003
0-12 • SRS -24.1
Biggest Drop
North Texas 2022
0-1 • -13.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| North Texas | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -4.6 | -1.5 | 31.3 | 34.1 | -13.0 | -100.0% | Partial season |
| Pittsburgh | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #15 | — | 8.4 | 11.3 | 29.7 | 18.7 | +25.4 | +91.7% | Partial season |
| SMU | 2007 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -17.0 | -13.4 | 28.9 | 43.2 | -9.2 | -41.7% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2006 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -7.8 | -7.7 | 20.9 | 30.3 | +0.3 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2005 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -8.1 | -13.0 | 16.0 | 29.0 | +9.6 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2004 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -17.7 | -16.2 | 27.5 | 40.3 | +6.4 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2003 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -24.1 | -27.8 | 12.8 | 37.7 | -2.1 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| SMU | 2002 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -22.0 | -24.8 | 18.0 | 39.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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