Bennie Oosterbaan

Head coach, 1948–1958

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1948–1958MichiganHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career77

1948–1958 · 11 seasonsRecord 63-33National titles 1Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 70: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 1948–1950 at Michigan (21-5, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over already a national power.
Career 77 (#90 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (63-33), 1 national title, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.

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.

Season	Team	Record	Season rank	vs contemporaries
1958	Michigan	2-6-1	#54	-0.09 SD
1957	Michigan	5-3-1	#22	+0.82 SD
1956	Michigan	7-2	#5	+1.49 SD
1955	Michigan	7-2	#15	+0.96 SD
1954	Michigan	6-3	#17	+1.05 SD
1953	Michigan	6-3	#18	+0.92 SD
1952	Michigan	5-4	#20	+0.76 SD
1951	Michigan	4-5	#26	+0.60 SD
1950	Michigan	6-3-1	#18	+0.97 SD
1949	Michigan	6-2-1	#6	+1.35 SD
1948	Michigan	9-0	#1	+1.94 SD

Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).