Top 25
10-27
- Games
- 37
- Win rate
- 27.0%
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Coach Profile
Art Briles
2003-2015 • Baylor, Houston
2 schools coached, anchored by Baylor.
Art Briles's coaching record is 99-65, highlighted by seasons at Baylor from 2003 to 2015.
Art Briles coached 13 seasons, won 60.4%, and posted an average SRS of 5.1. Best season: 2013 Baylor. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 99-65
- Career win rate
- 60.4%
- Average SRS
- 5.1
- Peak SRS
- 22.8
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
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #7
- Consistency
- 8.9
Primary school anchor
Baylor
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 89.7.
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
- 99-65
- Baylor record
- 65-37
- Full-season record
- 91-61
- Partial-season record
- 8-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 5-14
- Vs AP Top 5
- 3-9
- Vs TCU
- 3-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 3-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
164 countable games, 60.4% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Baylor.
12 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.
19 games using AP ranking at game time.
12 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bluebonnet Battle games in this dataset.
9 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: Dec 29, 2015. 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.
Art Briles
EliteStrongAverageLean
Art Briles: 2008 Baylor
2003Actual season year • SRS range -9.1 to 22.82015
Active comparison point
Art Briles • 2013
2013 Baylor
Best season11-2 • SRS 22.8 • SP Overall 20.4
Win %
84.6%
YoY SRS
+8.4
SP Off / Def
41.0 / 21.0
Finish
#13
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
5-14
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 26.3%
Top 5
3-9
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 25.0%
View ranked game results37
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
2008-2015 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 10.9 • Win % 63.7%
Houston
2003-2007 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -4.1 • Win % 54.8%
- Longest tenure
- Baylor • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Baylor • 10.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Baylor • 63.7%
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.
Art Briles sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeArt Briles sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Art Briles
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 6.0
- Percentile
- 75th 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
2008-2015 • 65-37
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 10.9Win % 63.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.1 during vs 3.6 baseline
+4.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.9 during vs -10.2 baseline
+21.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.3 during vs -8.0 baseline
+19.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Houston
2003-2007 • 34-28
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.1Win % 54.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 3.6 baseline
+2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.2 during vs -9.3 baseline
+5.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.0 during vs -8.8 baseline
+6.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Baylor 2013
11-2 • SRS 22.8
Biggest Improvement
Baylor 2011
10-3 • 12.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Baylor 2011
10-3 • SP Off 47.0
Best Defensive Season
Baylor 2014
11-2 • SP Def 19.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Houston 2004
3-8 • SRS -9.1
Biggest Drop
Houston 2007
8-4 • -8.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Baylor | 2015 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #4 | #13 | 17.8 | 19.5 | 45.1 | 24.1 | -3.3 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2014 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #10 | #7 | 21.1 | 23.9 | 43.0 | 19.5 | -1.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2013 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | #13 | 22.8 | 20.4 | 41.0 | 21.0 | +8.4 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2012 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 14.4 | 11.0 | 45.2 | 33.3 | +1.8 | -15.4% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2011 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #13 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 47.0 | 35.5 | +12.7 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2010 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -0.1 | 4.6 | 34.9 | 29.5 | +4.6 | +20.5% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2009 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -4.7 | -3.6 | 22.7 | 25.6 | -7.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Baylor | 2008 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 3.2 | 4.0 | 32.3 | 27.4 | +6.9 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2007 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.7 | -4.7 | 30.9 | 34.2 | -8.3 | -4.8% | Partial season |
| Houston | 2006 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 4.6 | 7.6 | 33.9 | 25.2 | +10.0 | +21.4% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2005 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -5.4 | -1.0 | 28.6 | 29.6 | +3.7 | +22.7% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2004 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -9.1 | -6.3 | 29.8 | 35.0 | -2.2 | -26.6% | Season summary |
| Houston | 2003 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -6.9 | -8.5 | 39.4 | 43.3 | — | — | Season summary |
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