Coaches Research Hub

College football coach records, rankings, and profiles.

Search any coach, jump to the record answer, then verify it with year-by-year rows, ranked-game splits, school impact, and comparisons.

Answer Pages

Start with a leaderboard.

Fast answers, deeper profiles.

Current Research Window

Search coach records, career wins, win percentage, and rankings from the same filtered universe as the discovery visuals below. Start from the recommended sample, then tighten the field around identity, school, time span, or quality.

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Summary and Filtering

Search coach records and career stats

Coach search stays primary, then school, archetype, time span, and quality sharpen the rankings. The recommended starting point is 3+ seasons.

Recommended baseline

Keep at least 3 seasons in view to avoid tiny-sample profiles dominating the charts and leaderboards.

Coach Identity

The fastest way to narrow style and school context.

South Florida

Time and Sample

Keep the result set stable before reading the charts.

Recommended: 3+ seasons.

Quality

Shortcut the list toward stronger resumes and stronger finishes.

These filters reshape the charts and the results table together, so every leaderboard and callout below reflects the same active set.

1 active filter are shaping the coach set now.

Primary Discovery

One clear lens at a time.

Start with career shape or flip to identity. Either way, the chart, the coach summary, the outlier list, and the table context all stay synchronized.

Success vs Volatility

Start with the simplest question: who paired real strength with a repeatable week-to-week shape?

6 coaches shown
Coach fieldOutlier markerSelected focus
Elite and steady
Elite but volatile
Lower ceiling but stable
Lower ceiling and unstable

Jeff Scott

Volatility: 0.75Average SRS: -11.25

13.3% win rate • -10.5 peak SRS

Volatility
Average SRS

Hover or focus a point to isolate it. Click a coach to carry that selection into the results table.

Average SRS reads overall strength. Volatility is the spread of season-to-season SRS, so lower values mean a steadier profile.

Career shape lens

Jeff Scott

This is the clearest first-pass view for peak versus stability. It is the best place to start browsing.

Offense-FirstOffense-First

Jeff Scott coached 3 seasons, won 13.3%, and posted an average SRS of -11.3. Best season: 2021 South Florida. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

Volatility
0.75
Average SRS
-11.25
Career Win %
13.3%
Peak SRS
-10.5
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Active chart outliers

These callouts update with the active discovery mode and filtered coach set.

3 markers
  1. Highest peak

    Jim Leavitt

    Single-season ceiling leader in the current filtered set.

    17.3 peak SRS
  2. Most consistent elite coach

    Charlie Strong

    High average strength without the season-to-season swing.

    3.34 avg SRS • 7.17 volatility
  3. Steadiest floor

    Jeff Scott

    Lowest volatility in the view. Lower is more stable.

    0.75 volatility

Top Career Peaks

Keep the ceiling board in view, but as a support module for the active lens, not the main destination.

  1. 1. Jim Leavitt

    2007

    17.3
  2. 2. Charlie Strong

    2004

    13.3
  3. 3. Alex Golesh

    2025

    12.6
  4. 4. Skip Holtz

    2014

    10.6
  5. 5. Willie Taggart

    2015

    8.4

Supporting Insights

Quick leaderboards, grouped on purpose.

These are shortcuts into the same table below. Performance leads the stack, while stability and longevity stay visible without competing with the main chart.

Performance

Primary leaderboard shortcuts

The fastest path into peak and results leaders.

3 boards

Highest Peak SRS

Single-season ceiling leaders.

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  1. 1. Jim Leavitt

    2007 South Florida (9-4)

    17.3
  2. 2. Charlie Strong

    2004 Florida (0-1)

    13.3
  3. 3. Alex Golesh

    2025 South Florida (9-4)

    12.6
  4. 4. Skip Holtz

    2014 Louisiana Tech (9-5)

    10.6
  5. 5. Willie Taggart

    2015 South Florida (8-5)

    8.4

Best Career Win %

Who won the most across a meaningful sample.

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  1. 1. Jim Leavitt

    2007 South Florida (9-4)

    63.0%
  2. 2. Alex Golesh

    2025 South Florida (9-4)

    59.0%
  3. 3. Charlie Strong

    2004 Florida (0-1)

    58.3%
  4. 4. Skip Holtz

    2014 Louisiana Tech (9-5)

    54.6%
  5. 5. Willie Taggart

    2015 South Florida (8-5)

    46.7%

Most Top 10 Finishes

Coaches who stacked elite endings.

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  1. 1. Charlie Strong

    2004 Florida (0-1)

    0
  2. 2. Jim Leavitt

    2007 South Florida (9-4)

    0
  3. 3. Alex Golesh

    2025 South Florida (9-4)

    0
  4. 4. Skip Holtz

    2014 Louisiana Tech (9-5)

    0
  5. 5. Willie Taggart

    2015 South Florida (8-5)

    0

Stability

Stability shortcuts

Who stays in control year after year.

1 board

Most Consistent Winning Coaches

Low SRS volatility among winning coaches with a real sample.

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  1. 1. Jim Leavitt

    2007 South Florida (9-4)

    11.3

Longevity

Longevity shortcuts

Long arcs, big samples, and durable careers.

1 board

Longest Careers

Big careers and long arcs.

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  1. 1. Skip Holtz

    2014 Louisiana Tech (9-5)

    17 years
  2. 2. Charlie Strong

    2004 Florida (0-1)

    16 years
  3. 3. Willie Taggart

    2015 South Florida (8-5)

    13 years
  4. 4. Jim Leavitt

    2007 South Florida (9-4)

    10 years
  5. 5. Alex Golesh

    2025 South Florida (9-4)

    3 years

Results Table

Coach results table

6 filtered coaches in view. Lower rank numbers are better. Lower volatility means more stable. Lower SP Def numbers are better on the identity chart.

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6 filtered coachesSuccess vs Volatility activeSorted by Career Quality ascending
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Jeff Scott

4-262020-2022

South Florida
33042613.3%-11.3
-10.5

2021 peak

0.828.843.30
Offense-First

Offense-First

Willie Taggart

71-812010-2022

Florida Atlantic, Florida State +3
13152718146.7%-4.6
8.4

2015 peak

7.824.729.0#190
Balanced

Volatile Builder

Skip Holtz

118-982005-2021

East Carolina, Louisiana Tech +1
172161189854.6%-3.2
10.6

2014 peak

7.125.927.90
Balanced

Longevity Coach

Alex Golesh

23-162023-2025

South Florida
339231659.0%-0.8
12.6

2025 peak

9.831.931.10
Offense-First

Volatile Builder

Jim Leavitt

75-442000-2009

South Florida
10119754463.0%0.4
17.3

2007 peak

11.326.825.20
Defense-First

Volatile Builder

Charlie Strong

74-532004-2019

Florida, Louisville +2
11127745358.3%3.3
13.3

2004 peak

7.231.222.9#130
Balanced

Longevity Coach

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