Top 25
19-43
- Games
- 62
- Win rate
- 30.6%
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Coach Profile
Rich Rodriguez
2001-2025 • Arizona, Jacksonville State, Michigan, West Virginia
4 schools coached, anchored by West Virginia.
Rich Rodriguez's coaching record is 140-100, highlighted by seasons at West Virginia from 2001 to 2025.
Rich Rodriguez coached 19 seasons, won 58.3%, and posted an average SRS of 5.1. Best season: 2007 West Virginia. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 5 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 140-100
- Career win rate
- 58.3%
- Average SRS
- 5.1
- Peak SRS
- 24.4
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
- 19
- Career span
- 25 years
- Best finish
- #5
- Consistency
- 27.7
Primary school anchor
West Virginia
Offense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 91.7.
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
- 140-100
- West Virginia record
- 60-26
- Full-season record
- 126-90
- Partial-season record
- 10-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 7-16
- Vs AP Top 5
- 3-8
- Vs Pittsburgh
- 5-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 6-7
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
240 countable games, 58.3% win rate.
7 countable seasons at West Virginia.
17 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.
23 games using AP ranking at game time.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
Backyard Brawl games in this dataset.
13 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 29, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
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.
Rich Rodriguez
EliteStrongAverageLean
Rich Rodriguez: 2008 MichiganRich Rodriguez: 2012 ArizonaRich Rodriguez: 2023 Jacksonville StateRich Rodriguez: 2025 West Virginia
2001Actual season year • SRS range -5.3 to 24.42025
Active comparison point
Rich Rodriguez • 2007
2007 West Virginia
Best season10-2 • SRS 24.4 • SP Overall 28.2
Win %
83.3%
YoY SRS
+7.2
SP Off / Def
41.7 / 14.4
Finish
#6
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
7-16
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 30.4%
Top 5
3-8
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 27.3%
View ranked game results62
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
West Virginia
2025-2025 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -2.6 • Win % 33.3%
Jacksonville State
2023-2024 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -2.0 • Win % 66.7%
Arizona
2012-2017 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 5.3 • Win % 55.1%
Michigan
2008-2010 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -2.7 • Win % 40.5%
West Virginia
2001-2007 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 11.4 • Win % 69.8%
- Longest tenure
- West Virginia • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- West Virginia • 11.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- West Virginia • 69.8%
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.
Rich Rodriguez sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRich Rodriguez sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Rich Rodriguez
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.
West Virginia
2025-2025 • 4-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.6Win % 33.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 5.8 baseline
-1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.6 during vs 3.7 baseline
-6.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.8 during vs 4.5 baseline
-11.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Jacksonville State
2023-2024 • 18-9
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -2.0Win % 66.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Arizona
2012-2017 • 43-35
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.3Win % 55.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.2 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 8.1 baseline
-2.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 8.6 baseline
-2.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
Michigan
2008-2010 • 15-22
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.7Win % 40.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 9.2 baseline
-4.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.7 during vs 16.3 baseline
-19.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 19.1 baseline
-13.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-80.0%
West Virginia
2001-2007 • 60-26
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.4Win % 69.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.3 during vs 6.8 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 6.8 baseline
+2.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
13.1 during vs 9.6 baseline
+3.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
West Virginia 2007
10-2 • SRS 24.4
Biggest Improvement
West Virginia 2005
11-1 • 10.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
West Virginia 2007
10-2 • SP Off 41.7
Best Defensive Season
West Virginia 2007
10-2 • SP Def 14.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Michigan 2008
3-9 • SRS -5.3
Biggest Drop
Michigan 2008
3-9 • -29.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| West Virginia | 2025 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -2.6 | -6.8 | 22.8 | 30.0 | +0.2 | -30.9% | Completed-game fallback |
| Jacksonville State | 2024 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | -2.8 | -1.0 | 28.8 | 28.3 | -1.6 | -5.0% | Season summary |
| Jacksonville State | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | -1.2 | -1.6 | 24.8 | 25.9 | -4.6 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2017 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 3.4 | 3.7 | 38.1 | 33.9 | +8.3 | +28.8% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2016 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -4.9 | -4.5 | 29.6 | 32.4 | -4.8 | -28.8% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2015 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #22 | — | -0.1 | 4.7 | 38.0 | 31.6 | -10.8 | -17.6% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2014 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | #19 | 10.7 | 7.6 | 33.4 | 25.7 | -3.4 | +9.9% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2013 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 14.1 | 14.6 | 37.2 | 21.1 | +5.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Arizona | 2012 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 8.5 | 8.2 | 40.7 | 31.5 | +7.9 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Michigan | 2010 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 0.6 | 7.7 | 40.2 | 30.6 | +4.1 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Michigan | 2009 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -3.5 | 8.2 | 32.6 | 25.6 | +1.8 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Michigan | 2008 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -5.3 | 1.6 | 20.5 | 19.2 | -29.7 | -58.3% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2007 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #3 | #6 | 24.4 | 28.2 | 41.7 | 14.4 | +7.2 | -1.3% | Partial season |
| West Virginia | 2006 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #5 | #10 | 17.2 | 25.4 | 41.2 | 17.3 | +0.6 | -7.0% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2005 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #5 | 16.6 | 15.8 | 33.3 | 17.6 | +10.7 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2004 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #10 | — | 5.9 | 8.1 | 33.8 | 27.6 | -1.9 | +5.1% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2003 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 7.8 | 12.7 | 37.2 | 26.3 | -0.6 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2002 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #25 | 8.4 | 13.7 | 38.7 | 26.6 | +8.7 | +42.0% | Season summary |
| West Virginia | 2001 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -0.3 | 2.8 | 29.0 | 27.1 | — | — | Season summary |
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