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.

James Madison

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?

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

Curt Cignetti

Volatility: 8.75Average SRS: 14.50

88.5% win rate • 27.3 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

Curt Cignetti

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

BalancedPeak Dominator

Curt Cignetti coached 4 seasons, won 88.5%, and posted an average SRS of 14.5. Best season: 2025 Indiana. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

Volatility
8.75
Average SRS
14.50
Career Win %
88.5%
Peak SRS
27.3
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Active chart outliers

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

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  1. Highest peak

    Curt Cignetti

    Single-season ceiling leader in the current filtered set.

    27.3 peak SRS

Top Career Peaks

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

  1. 1. Curt Cignetti

    2025

    27.3

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. Curt Cignetti

    2025 Indiana (16-0)

    27.3

Best Career Win %

Who won the most across a meaningful sample.

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  1. 1. Curt Cignetti

    2025 Indiana (16-0)

    88.5%

Most Top 10 Finishes

Coaches who stacked elite endings.

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  1. 1. Curt Cignetti

    2025 Indiana (16-0)

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Stability

Stability shortcuts

Who stays in control year after year.

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Most Consistent Winning Coaches

Low SRS volatility among winning coaches with a real sample.

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    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. Curt Cignetti

      2025 Indiana (16-0)

      4 years

    Results Table

    Coach results table

    1 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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    1 filtered coachesSuccess vs Volatility activeSorted by Career Quality descending
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    Curt Cignetti

    46-62022-2025

    Indiana, James Madison
    45246688.5%14.5
    27.3

    2025 peak

    8.835.418.4#101
    Balanced

    Peak Dominator

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