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4-1-1
- Games
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- Win rate
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Jock Sutherland
1919-1938 • Lafayette, Pittsburgh
2 schools coached, anchored by Pittsburgh.
Jock Sutherland's coaching record is 144-28-14, highlighted by seasons at Pittsburgh from 1919 to 1938.
Jock Sutherland coached 20 seasons, won 81.2%, and posted an average SRS of 17.4. Best season: 1921 Lafayette. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 144-28-14
- Career win rate
- 81.2%
- Average SRS
- 17.4
- Peak SRS
- 28.0
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
- 20
- Career span
- 20 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 70.7
Primary school anchor
Pittsburgh
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 95.5.
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
- 144-28-14
- Pittsburgh record
- 111-20-12
- Full-season record
- 144-28-14
- Vs AP Top 10
- 2-0-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-0-1
- Vs West Virginia
- 14-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 1
186 countable games, 81.2% win rate.
15 countable seasons at Pittsburgh.
20 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Backyard Brawl games in this dataset.
4 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 26, 1938. 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.
Jock Sutherland
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Jock Sutherland: 1924 Pittsburgh
1919Actual season year • SRS range 7.9 to 28.01938
Active comparison point
Jock Sutherland • 1921
1921 Lafayette
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-0 • SRS 28.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+18.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
2-0-1
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 83.3%
Top 5
1-0-1
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 75.0%
View ranked game results6
| 1938 Regular Week 7 | Pittsburgh | Fordham | #13 | W24-13 |
| 1938 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Wisconsin | #12 | W26-6 |
| 1937 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Fordham | #4 | T0-0 |
| 1936 Regular Week 6 | Pittsburgh | Notre Dame | #9 | W26-0 |
| 1936 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Duquesne | #20 | L0-7 |
| 1936 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | Washington | #5 | W21-0 |
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
1924-1938 • 15 seasons
Avg SRS 17.4 • Win % 81.8%
Lafayette
1919-1923 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 17.5 • Win % 79.1%
- Longest tenure
- Pittsburgh • 15 seasons
- Best tenure
- Lafayette • 17.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Pittsburgh • 81.8%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jock Sutherland
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
1924-1938 • 111-20-12
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 17.4Win % 81.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.4 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
17.4 during vs 19.6 baseline
-2.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
Lafayette
1919-1923 • 33-8-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 17.5Win % 79.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Lafayette 1921
9-0 • SRS 28.0
Biggest Improvement
Lafayette 1921
9-0 • 18.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Pittsburgh 1930
6-2-1 • SRS 7.9
Biggest Drop
Pittsburgh 1935
7-1-2 • -11.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Pittsburgh | 1938 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | #8 | 20.2 | — | — | — | +1.6 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1937 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | — | #1 | 18.6 | — | — | — | -7.1 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1936 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 85.0% | — | #3 | 25.7 | — | — | — | +14.0 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1935 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 80.0% | — | — | 11.7 | — | — | — | -11.2 | -8.9% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1934 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 22.9 | — | — | — | +4.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1933 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 18.1 | — | — | — | +0.5 | +7.1% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1932 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 81.8% | — | — | 17.6 | — | — | — | -5.8 | -7.1% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1931 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 23.4 | — | — | — | +15.5 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1930 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 7.9 | — | — | — | -9.6 | -17.8% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1929 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | 17.5 | — | — | — | +7.9 | +17.8% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1928 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 9.6 | — | — | — | -9.9 | -12.8% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1927 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 85.0% | — | — | 19.5 | — | — | — | +3.7 | +18.3% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1926 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 66.7% | — | — | 15.8 | — | — | — | -5.6 | -22.2% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1925 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 21.4 | — | — | — | +10.4 | +27.8% | Season summary |
| Pittsburgh | 1924 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 11.0 | — | — | — | -4.4 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1923 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | — | 15.4 | — | — | — | -3.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1922 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 18.5 | — | — | — | -9.5 | -22.2% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1921 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 28.0 | — | — | — | +18.2 | +37.5% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1920 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 9.8 | — | — | — | -5.9 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Lafayette | 1919 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 15.7 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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