Top 25
41-25
- Games
- 66
- Win rate
- 62.1%
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Dabo Swinney
2008-2025 • Clemson
One defining program at Clemson.
Dabo Swinney's coaching record is 187-53, highlighted by seasons at Clemson from 2008 to 2025.
Dabo Swinney coached 18 seasons, won 77.9%, and posted an average SRS of 16.2. Best season: 2018 Clemson. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 187-53
- Career win rate
- 77.9%
- Average SRS
- 16.2
- Peak SRS
- 32.7
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
- 18
- Career span
- 18 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 32.9
Primary school anchor
Clemson
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 98.0.
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
- 187-53
- Clemson record
- 187-53
- Full-season record
- 176-44
- Partial-season record
- 4-3
- Vs AP Top 10
- 17-13
- Vs AP Top 5
- 9-10
- Vs South Carolina
- 9-7
- Postseason / bowl record
- 12-9
- CFP record
- 4-5
- National titles
- 2
240 countable games, 77.9% win rate.
18 countable seasons at Clemson.
16 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.
30 games using AP ranking at game time.
19 games using AP ranking at game time.
Palmetto Bowl games in this dataset.
21 scored postseason games in this dataset.
9 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 27, 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.
Dabo Swinney
EliteStrongAverageLean
2008Actual season year • SRS range 6.2 to 32.72025
Active comparison point
Dabo Swinney • 2018
2018 Clemson
Best season15-0 • SRS 32.7 • SP Overall 29.7
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+6.8
SP Off / Def
43.0 / 12.6
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
17-13
- Games
- 30
- Win rate
- 56.7%
Top 5
9-10
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 47.4%
View ranked game results66
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
2008-2025 • 18 seasons
Avg SRS 16.2 • Win % 77.9%
- Longest tenure
- Clemson • 18 seasons
- Best tenure
- Clemson • 16.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Clemson • 77.9%
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.
Dabo Swinney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDabo Swinney sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dabo Swinney
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 18.5
- Percentile
- 97th 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
2008-2025 • 187-53
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 16.2Win % 77.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
10.8 during vs 8.0 baseline
+2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
16.7 during vs 11.6 baseline
+5.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
18.9 during vs 14.4 baseline
+4.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
82.3% during vs 60.0% baseline
+22.4%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Clemson 2018
15-0 • SRS 32.7
Biggest Improvement
Clemson 2012
11-2 • 9.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Clemson 2019
14-1 • SP Off 43.5
Best Defensive Season
Clemson 2017
12-2 • SP Def 8.3
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Clemson 2025
7-6 • SRS 6.2
Biggest Drop
Clemson 2010
6-7 • -6.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Clemson | 2025 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 6.2 | 9.5 | 27.5 | 18.9 | -5.7 | -17.6% | Completed-game fallback |
| Clemson | 2024 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | #14 | #14 | 11.9 | 13.3 | 35.4 | 20.9 | +1.1 | +2.2% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #9 | #20 | 10.8 | 10.5 | 29.3 | 19.0 | -3.1 | -9.3% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2022 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #4 | #13 | 13.9 | 17.6 | 34.9 | 18.5 | +2.8 | +1.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2021 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #3 | #14 | 11.1 | 18.7 | 28.3 | 11.6 | — | -6.4% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2020 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #1 | #3 | — | — | — | — | — | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2019 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #1 | #2 | 28.6 | 28.1 | 43.5 | 14.6 | -4.1 | -6.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2018 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #2 | — | 32.7 | 29.7 | 43.0 | 12.6 | +6.8 | +14.3% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2017 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #5 | #4 | 25.9 | 26.4 | 36.5 | 8.3 | +0.6 | -7.6% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2016 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #2 | #1 | 25.3 | 28.7 | 43.5 | 14.1 | +3.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2015 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 93.3% | #12 | #2 | 22.3 | 24.0 | 41.9 | 17.2 | +8.4 | +16.4% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2014 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #16 | #15 | 13.9 | 18.1 | 29.0 | 11.6 | -4.3 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2013 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #8 | #8 | 18.2 | 24.5 | 42.4 | 19.6 | +2.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2012 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #14 | #11 | 16.0 | 18.5 | 41.5 | 24.1 | +9.7 | +13.2% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2011 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | #22 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 35.4 | 28.9 | -2.0 | +25.3% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2010 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 8.3 | 10.1 | 24.0 | 13.3 | -6.9 | -18.1% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2009 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | #24 | 15.2 | 16.4 | 31.1 | 14.4 | +6.8 | +7.1% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 2008 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.1% | #9 | — | 8.4 | 12.8 | 27.0 | 14.2 | — | — | Partial season |
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