Coaches / Head coach / Kirby Smart
Form · last two seasons
89
performing to its level
Rating90recent
Peak90best 5 yrs
Career85whole career
confidence
Kirby Smart
Head Coach · Georgia
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
75
continuity at Georgia · early
Seasons here11
Programs1
Stints1
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.
As head coach
Rating90Form89≈ as usualPeak90Career85
2016–2026 · 11 seasonsRecord 117-21National titles 2Great seasons 8 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 90: his whole career, recent seasons weighted most, measured as how far his teams stood above their era, crediting him with half of what each program already was when he arrived (about the share that, historically, follows a coach to his next job), fading as the program becomes his own.
- Peak 90: best five-season stretch, 2020–2024 at Georgia (61-7, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 2 national titles), taking over already a national power.
- Career 85 (#32 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (117-21), 2 national titles, 8 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- All of it at one program (Georgia) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.
Over expectation · 2016 on87Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).
Rating = who he is: his whole head-coaching career (since 1936), weighted toward recent years — how far his teams stood above their contemporaries, how much he lifted programs, his great seasons and titles. Form = the last two seasons. Career = the all-time ranking number.
Program lift79
Evaluation50
Results99
Recruiting47
Staff building66
Game management75
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Georgia | 0-0 | #7 | +1.65 SD |
| 2025 | Georgia | 12-2 | #10 | +1.38 SD |
| 2024 | Georgia | 11-3 | #9 | +1.46 SD |
| 2023 | Georgia | 13-1 | #6 | +1.88 SD |
| 2022 | Georgia | 15-0 | #1 | +2.56 SD |
| 2021 | Georgia | 14-1 | #1 | +2.61 SD |
| 2020 | Georgia | 8-2 | #5 | +1.62 SD |
| 2019 | Georgia | 12-2 | #6 | +1.64 SD |
| 2018 | Georgia | 11-3 | #3 | +2.08 SD |
| 2017 | Georgia | 13-2 | #1 | +2.06 SD |
| 2016 | Georgia | 8-5 | #47 | +0.38 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).