Top 25
13-19
- Games
- 32
- Win rate
- 40.6%
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Coach Profile
Tommy Bowden
1997-2008 • Clemson, Tulane
2 schools coached, anchored by Clemson.
Tommy Bowden's coaching record is 90-49, highlighted by seasons at Clemson from 1997 to 2008.
Tommy Bowden coached 12 seasons, won 64.8%, and posted an average SRS of 9.8. Best season: 2007 Clemson. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 90-49
- Career win rate
- 64.8%
- Average SRS
- 9.8
- Peak SRS
- 14.6
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
- 12
- Career span
- 12 years
- Best finish
- #7
- Consistency
- 86.4
Primary school anchor
Clemson
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 72.5.
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
- 90-49
- Clemson record
- 72-45
- Full-season record
- 76-46
- Partial-season record
- 14-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 3-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 1-2
- Vs South Carolina
- 7-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-5
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
139 countable games, 64.8% win rate.
10 countable seasons at Clemson.
10 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.
10 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
Palmetto Bowl games in this dataset.
8 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: Jan 1, 2009. 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.
Tommy Bowden
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tommy Bowden: 1999 Clemson
1997Actual season year • SRS range 3.3 to 14.62008
Active comparison point
Tommy Bowden • 2007
2007 Clemson
Best season9-4 • SRS 14.6 • SP Overall 16.2
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+3.2
SP Off / Def
31.6 / 15.2
Finish
#21
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
3-7
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 30.0%
Top 5
1-2
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 33.3%
View ranked game results32
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Clemson
1999-2008 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 10.1 • Win % 61.5%
Tulane
1997-1998 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 8.6 • Win % 81.8%
- Longest tenure
- Clemson • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Clemson • 10.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Tulane • 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.
Tommy Bowden sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTommy Bowden sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tommy Bowden
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 12.8
- Percentile
- 91th pct
Elite
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.
Clemson
1999-2008 • 72-45
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.1Win % 61.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.3 during vs 3.6 baseline
+6.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.2 during vs 4.3 baseline
+8.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
44.4% during vs 0.0% baseline
+44.4%
Tulane
1997-1998 • 18-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 8.6Win % 81.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 2.0 baseline
+5.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.0 during vs -12.7 baseline
+17.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.6 during vs -15.1 baseline
+21.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Clemson 2007
9-4 • SRS 14.6
Biggest Improvement
Clemson 2003
9-4 • 11.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Tulane 1998
11-0 • SP Off 47.1
Best Defensive Season
Clemson 2006
8-5 • SP Def 13.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Clemson 2002
7-6 • SRS 3.3
Biggest Drop
Clemson 2004
6-5 • -7.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Clemson | 2008 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.0% | #9 | — | 8.4 | 12.8 | 27.0 | 14.2 | -6.2 | -19.2% | Partial season |
| Clemson | 2007 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #21 | 14.6 | 16.2 | 31.6 | 15.2 | +3.2 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2006 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #18 | — | 11.4 | 16.7 | 31.5 | 13.7 | +0.4 | -5.1% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2005 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #21 | 11.0 | 12.9 | 31.1 | 18.2 | +4.3 | +12.1% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2004 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | #15 | — | 6.7 | 7.1 | 28.6 | 22.7 | -7.8 | -14.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2003 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #22 | 14.5 | 19.3 | 37.6 | 19.8 | +11.2 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2002 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 3.3 | 7.4 | 34.7 | 29.4 | -2.2 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2001 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #19 | — | 5.5 | 7.5 | 39.3 | 33.9 | -7.4 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2000 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #17 | #16 | 12.9 | 15.7 | 41.1 | 28.7 | +0.4 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1999 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 12.5 | 16.0 | 35.9 | 22.1 | +0.3 | -50.0% | Season summary |
| Tulane | 1998 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #7 | 12.2 | 15.4 | 47.1 | 35.6 | +7.2 | +36.4% | Partial season |
| Tulane | 1997 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 5.0 | 6.6 | 35.7 | 31.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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