Bill Hess

Head coach, 1962–1977

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1962–1977OhioHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak51Career50

1962–1977 · 16 seasonsRecord 80-83National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 50: 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 51: best five-season stretch, 1967–1971 at Ohio (29-20), taking over an average program.
Career 50 (#477 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (80-83), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; 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
1977	Ohio	1-10	#113	-1.64 SD
1976	Ohio	7-4	#85	-0.52 SD
1975	Ohio	5-5-1	#75	-0.33 SD
1974	Ohio	6-5	#68	-0.22 SD
1973	Ohio	5-5	#80	-0.61 SD
1972	Ohio	3-8	#97	-1.71 SD
1971	Ohio	5-5	#32	+0.19 SD
1970	Ohio	4-5	#83	-0.85 SD
1969	Ohio	5-4-1	#61	-0.21 SD
1968	Ohio	10-1	#58	+0.12 SD
1967	Ohio	5-5	#47	+0.17 SD
1966	Ohio	5-5	#86	-0.77 SD
1965	Ohio	0-10	#104	-1.91 SD
1964	Ohio	5-4-1	#86	-0.82 SD
1963	Ohio	6-4	#80	-0.71 SD
1962	Ohio	8-3	#39	+0.40 SD

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