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Walter Milligan

1947-1949Pittsburgh

One defining program at Pittsburgh.

Walter Milligan's coaching record is 13-14, highlighted by seasons at Pittsburgh from 1947 to 1949.

Walter Milligan coached 3 seasons, won 48.1%, and posted an average SRS of 2.6. Best season: 1949 Pittsburgh. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
13-14
Career win rate
48.1%
Average SRS
2.6
Peak SRS
8.7

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
3
Career span
3 years
Best finish
Consistency
67.8

Primary school anchor

Pittsburgh

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 58.1.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Walter Milligan
Overall record
13-14

27 countable games, 48.1% win rate.

Pittsburgh record
13-14

3 countable seasons at Pittsburgh.

Full-season record
13-14

3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
0-6

6 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-4

4 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-4

4 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs West Virginia
2-1

Backyard Brawl games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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 19, 1949. 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.

Walter Milligan
EliteStrongAverageLean
1947Actual season year • SRS range -4.7 to 8.71949

Active comparison point

Walter Milligan1949

Selected

1949 Pittsburgh

Best seasonBiggest drop

6-3 • SRS 8.7 • SP Overall

Win %

66.7%

YoY SRS

+4.8

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

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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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-6

Games
6
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results6
1948 Regular Week 4PittsburghNotre Dame#2L0-40
1948 Regular Week 3PittsburghSMU#11L14-33
1947 Regular Week 8PittsburghMinnesota#19L0-29
1947 Regular Week 5PittsburghMichigan#2L0-69
1947 Regular Week 4PittsburghNotre Dame#1L6-40
1947 Regular Week 3PittsburghIllinois#5L0-14

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Pittsburgh

1947-19493 seasons

Avg SRS 2.6 • Win % 48.1%

Longest tenure
Pittsburgh • 3 seasons
Best tenure
Pittsburgh • 2.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Pittsburgh • 48.1%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Walter Milligan

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

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.

Pittsburgh

1947-194913-14

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 2.6Win % 48.1%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.3 during vs 3.2 baseline

+1.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

2.6 during vs -0.6 baseline

+3.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Pittsburgh 1949

6-3SRS 8.7

Biggest Improvement

Pittsburgh 1948

6-38.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Pittsburgh 1947

1-8SRS -4.7

Biggest Drop

Pittsburgh 1949

6-34.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Pittsburgh1949963066.7%8.7+4.80.0%Season summary
Pittsburgh1948963066.7%3.9+8.6+55.6%Season summary
Pittsburgh1947918011.1%-4.7Season summary

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