Top 25
6-15
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 28.6%
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Dave Aranda
2020-2025 • Baylor
One defining program at Baylor.
Dave Aranda coached 6 seasons, won 50.8%, and posted an average SRS of 4.6. Best season: 2021 Baylor. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 31-30
- Career win rate
- 50.8%
- Average SRS
- 4.6
- Peak SRS
- 11.6
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
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years
- Best finish
- #5
- Consistency
- 48.8
Primary school anchor
Baylor
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 65.5.
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.
Dave Aranda
EliteStrongAverageLean
2020Actual season year • SRS range -6.9 to 11.62025
Active comparison point
Dave Aranda • 2021
2021 Baylor
Best season12-2 • SRS 11.6 • SP Overall 15.6
Win %
85.7%
YoY SRS
+9.8
SP Off / Def
33.1 / 17.1
Finish
#5
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
2-3
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 40.0%
Top 5
2-2
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 50.0%
View ranked game results21
| 2025 Regular Week 12 | Baylor | Utah | #15 | L28-55 |
| 2025 Regular Week 9 | Baylor | Cincinnati | #21 | L20-41 |
| 2025 Regular Week 2 | Baylor | SMU | #17 | W48-45 |
| 2024 Regular Week 6 | Baylor | Iowa State | #16 | L21-43 |
| 2024 Regular Week 5 | Baylor | BYU | #22 | L28-34 |
| 2024 Regular Week 2 | Baylor | Utah | #11 | L12-23 |
| 2023 Regular Week 4 | Baylor | Texas | #3 | L6-38 |
| 2023 Regular Week 2 | Baylor | Utah | #12 | L13-20 |
| 2022 Regular Week 13 | Baylor | Texas | #24 | L27-38 |
| 2022 Regular Week 12 | Baylor | TCU | #4 | L28-29 |
| 2022 Regular Week 11 | Baylor | Kansas State | #23 | L3-31 |
| 2022 Regular Week 5 | Baylor | Oklahoma State | #9 | L25-36 |
| 2022 Regular Week 2 | Baylor | BYU | #21 | L20-26 |
| 2021 Regular Week 14 | Baylor | Oklahoma State | #5 | W21-16 |
| 2021 Regular Week 11 | Baylor | Oklahoma | #4 | W27-14 |
| 2021 Regular Week 7 | Baylor | BYU | #19 | W38-24 |
| 2021 Regular Week 5 | Baylor | Oklahoma State | #19 | L14-24 |
| 2021 Regular Week 4 | Baylor | Iowa State | #14 | W31-29 |
| 2021 Postseason Week 1 | Baylor | Ole Miss | #11 | W21-7 |
| 2020 Regular Week 14 | Baylor | Oklahoma | #13 | L14-27 |
| 2020 Regular Week 10 | Baylor | Iowa State | #17 | L31-38 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Baylor
2020-2025 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 4.6 • Win % 50.8%
- Longest tenure
- Baylor • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Baylor • 4.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Baylor • 50.8%
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.
Dave Aranda sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDave Aranda sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dave Aranda
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.0
- Percentile
- 73th 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.
Baylor
2020-2025 • 31-30
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.6Win % 50.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.2 during vs 7.2 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 7.0 baseline
-2.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 9.8 baseline
-4.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 40.0% baseline
-23.3%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Baylor 2021
12-2 • SRS 11.6
Biggest Improvement
Baylor 2024
8-5 • 18.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Baylor 2022
6-7 • SP Off 37.6
Best Defensive Season
Baylor 2021
12-2 • SP Def 17.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Baylor 2023
3-9 • SRS -6.9
Biggest Drop
Baylor 2023
3-9 • -16.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Baylor | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0.6 | 1.4 | 32.8 | 33.3 | -10.9 | — |
| Baylor | 2024 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 11.5 | 8.4 | 33.5 | 26.2 | +18.4 | +36.5% |
| Baylor | 2023 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -6.9 | -8.3 | 24.5 | 32.6 | -16.1 | -21.1% |
| Baylor | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | #10 | — | 9.2 | 11.7 | 37.6 | 26.1 | -2.4 | -39.6% |
| Baylor | 2021 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #5 | 11.6 | 15.6 | 33.1 | 17.1 | +9.8 | +63.5% |
| Baylor | 2020 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | 1.8 | 1.3 | 25.6 | 24.2 | — | — |
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