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Search any coach, jump to the record answer, then verify it with year-by-year rows, ranked-game splits, school impact, and comparisons.
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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
Coach search stays primary, then school, archetype, time span, and quality sharpen the rankings. The recommended starting point is 3+ seasons.
Primary Discovery
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.
Start with the simplest question: who paired real strength with a repeatable week-to-week shape?
Frank Leahy
Volatility: 9.13 • Average SRS: 22.65
86.4% win rate • 38.3 peak 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
This is the clearest first-pass view for peak versus stability. It is the best place to start browsing.
Frank Leahy coached 13 seasons, won 86.4%, and posted an average SRS of 22.6. Best season: 1946 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
These callouts update with the active discovery mode and filtered coach set.
Highest peak
Frank Leahy
Single-season ceiling leader in the current filtered set.
Steadiest floor
Tom Coughlin
Lowest volatility in the view. Lower is more stable.
Elite but volatile
Gilmour Dobie
Big ceiling, but the weekly shape moved around more than the steady tier.
Keep the ceiling board in view, but as a support module for the active lens, not the main destination.
1. Frank Leahy
1946
2. Gilmour Dobie
1923
3. Frank Cavanaugh
1914
4. Denny Myers
1942
5. Jack Bicknell
1984
Supporting Insights
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
The fastest path into peak and results leaders.
Single-season ceiling leaders.
1. Frank Leahy
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
2. Gilmour Dobie
1923 Cornell (8-0)
3. Frank Cavanaugh
1914 Dartmouth (8-1)
4. Denny Myers
1942 Boston College (8-2)
5. Jack Bicknell
1984 Boston College (10-2)
Who won the most across a meaningful sample.
1. Frank Leahy
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
2. Frank Cavanaugh
1914 Dartmouth (8-1)
3. Gilmour Dobie
1923 Cornell (8-0)
4. Mike Holovak
1955 Boston College (5-2-1)
5. Joseph Yukica
1974 Boston College (8-3)
Coaches who stacked elite endings.
1. Frank Leahy
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
2. Denny Myers
1942 Boston College (8-2)
3. Jack Bicknell
1984 Boston College (10-2)
4. Frank Cavanaugh
1914 Dartmouth (8-1)
5. Gilmour Dobie
1923 Cornell (8-0)
Stability
Who stays in control year after year.
Low SRS volatility among winning coaches with a real sample.
1. Frank Cavanaugh
1914 Dartmouth (8-1)
2. Frank Leahy
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
3. Gilmour Dobie
1923 Cornell (8-0)
Longevity
Long arcs, big samples, and durable careers.
Big careers and long arcs.
1. Frank Cavanaugh
1914 Dartmouth (8-1)
2. Jack Bicknell
1984 Boston College (10-2)
3. Gilmour Dobie
1923 Cornell (8-0)
4. Tom OBrien
2005 Boston College (9-3)
5. Frank Leahy
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
Results Table
16 filtered coaches in view. Lower rank numbers are better. Lower volatility means more stable. Lower SP Def numbers are better on the identity chart.
| Compare | |||||||||||||||
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Frank Leahy 107-13-9 • 1939-1953 | Boston College, Notre Dame | 13 | 129 | 107 | 13 | 86.4% | 22.6 | 38.3 1946 peak | 9.1 | — | — | #1 | 10 | Balanced Peak Dominator | |
Frank Cavanaugh 86-29-9 • 1903-1932 | Boston College, Dartmouth +2 | 14 | 124 | 86 | 29 | 73.0% | 12.4 | 28.3 1914 peak | 8.8 | — | — | — | 0 | Balanced Longevity Coach | |
Gilmour Dobie 115-44-11 • 1916-1938 | Boston College, Cornell +2 | 22 | 170 | 115 | 44 | 70.9% | 6.3 | 29.8 1923 peak | 14.1 | — | — | — | 0 | Balanced Longevity Coach | |
Denny Myers 35-27-4 • 1941-1950 | Boston College | 7 | 66 | 35 | 27 | 56.1% | 4.1 | 16.7 1942 peak | 9.0 | — | — | #8 | 1 | Balanced — | |
Tom Coughlin 21-13-1 • 1991-1993 | Boston College | 3 | 35 | 21 | 13 | 61.4% | 7.4 | 10.2 1993 peak | 2.4 | 34.2 | 25.3 | #13 | 0 | Offense-First Consistent Winner | |
Jack Bicknell 102-107-1 • 1981-2006 | Boston College, Louisiana Tech | 18 | 210 | 102 | 107 | 48.8% | -1.8 | 16.6 1984 peak | 9.4 | 30.7 | 31.3 | #5 | 1 | Offense-First Longevity Coach | |
Tom OBrien 115-80 • 1997-2012 | Boston College, NC State | 16 | 195 | 115 | 80 | 59.0% | 4.0 | 13.4 2005 peak | 7.0 | 30.1 | 24.9 | #18 | 0 | Balanced Longevity Coach | |
Joseph Yukica 88-54-1 • 1968-1981 | Boston College, Dartmouth | 14 | 143 | 88 | 54 | 61.9% | -1.3 | 12.8 1974 peak | 9.0 | 24.8 | 21.3 | — | 0 | Defense-First Longevity Coach | |
Bill OBrien 24-25 • 2012-2025 | Boston College, Penn State | 4 | 49 | 24 | 25 | 49.0% | 3.0 | 8.3 2012 peak | 5.2 | 28.9 | 24.1 | — | 0 | Balanced Program Stabilizer | |
Dan Henning 16-19-1 • 1994-1996 | Boston College | 3 | 36 | 16 | 19 | 45.8% | 2.7 | 12.2 1994 peak | 7.0 | 28.6 | 25.2 | #23 | 0 | Balanced — | |
Mike Holovak 49-29-3 • 1951-1959 | Boston College | 9 | 81 | 49 | 29 | 62.4% | -2.1 | 7.4 1955 peak | 5.6 | — | — | — | 0 | Balanced — | |
Jim Miller 52-34 • 1959-1967 | Boston College, Detroit Mercy | 9 | 86 | 52 | 34 | 60.5% | -2.8 | 9.2 1962 peak | 7.0 | — | — | — | 0 | Balanced — | |
Steve Addazio 61-67 • 2011-2021 | Boston College, Colorado State +1 | 11 | 128 | 61 | 67 | 47.7% | 0.7 | 11.2 2017 peak | 5.9 | 25.2 | 25.1 | — | 0 | Defense-First Program Stabilizer | |
Frank Spaziani 21-29 • 2009-2012 | Boston College | 4 | 50 | 21 | 29 | 42.0% | -2.2 | 5.6 2009 peak | 6.0 | 22.9 | 20.4 | — | 0 | Defense-First Defense-First | |
Jeff Hafley 22-26 • 2020-2023 | Boston College | 4 | 48 | 22 | 26 | 45.8% | -4.7 | 0.9 2021 peak | 4.5 | 23.2 | 29.3 | — | 0 | Defense-First Defense-First | |
Ed Chlebek 26-51 • 1976-1982 | Boston College, Eastern Michigan +1 | 7 | 77 | 26 | 51 | 33.8% | -11.0 | 6.4 1980 peak | 11.1 | 19.2 | 25.4 | — | 0 | Defense-First Defense-First |
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