Coaches / Head coach / Bill Davidson
Career
60
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak56best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Bill Davidson
Head coach, 1974–1978
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs1
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak56Career60
1974–1978 · 5 seasonsRecord 37-17National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)
- Rating 56: 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 56: best five-season stretch, 1974–1976 at Arkansas State (23-9), taking over an average program.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Arkansas State | 7-4 | #93 | -0.75 SD |
| 1977 | Arkansas State | 7-4 | #106 | -1.23 SD |
| 1976 | Arkansas State | 5-6 | #92 | -0.64 SD |
| 1975 | Arkansas State | 11-0 | #17 | +1.17 SD |
| 1974 | Arkansas State | 7-3 | #59 | -0.07 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).