Coaches / Head coach / Bo Schembechler
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak88best 5 yrs
Career92whole career
confidence
Bo Schembechler
Head coach, 1963–1989
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak88Career92
1963–1989 · 27 seasonsRecord 234-65National titles 0Great seasons 11 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 88: 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 88: best five-season stretch, 1973–1977 at Michigan (48-7, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
- Career 92 (#9 since 1936): total accomplishment over 27 seasons (234-65), 0 national titles, 11 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Michigan).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Michigan | 10-2 | #9 | +1.35 SD |
| 1988 | Michigan | 9-2-1 | #7 | +1.49 SD |
| 1987 | Michigan | 8-4 | #20 | +0.97 SD |
| 1986 | Michigan | 11-2 | #11 | +1.34 SD |
| 1985 | Michigan | 10-1-1 | #1 | +2.08 SD |
| 1984 | Michigan | 6-6 | #37 | +0.47 SD |
| 1983 | Michigan | 9-3 | #8 | +1.33 SD |
| 1982 | Michigan | 8-4 | #10 | +1.38 SD |
| 1981 | Michigan | 9-3 | #11 | +1.30 SD |
| 1980 | Michigan | 10-2 | #9 | +1.56 SD |
| 1979 | Michigan | 8-4 | #16 | +1.30 SD |
| 1978 | Michigan | 10-2 | #5 | +1.80 SD |
| 1977 | Michigan | 10-2 | #9 | +1.61 SD |
| 1976 | Michigan | 10-2 | #1 | +2.35 SD |
| 1975 | Michigan | 8-2-2 | #7 | +1.54 SD |
| 1974 | Michigan | 10-1 | #4 | +1.85 SD |
| 1973 | Michigan | 10-0-1 | #3 | +2.10 SD |
| 1972 | Michigan | 10-1 | #7 | +1.54 SD |
| 1971 | Michigan | 11-1 | #6 | +1.81 SD |
| 1970 | Michigan | 9-1 | #6 | +1.60 SD |
| 1969 | Michigan | 8-3 | #12 | +1.45 SD |
| 1968 | Miami (OH) | 7-3 | #61 | -0.05 SD |
| 1967 | Miami (OH) | 6-4 | #54 | -0.00 SD |
| 1966 | Miami (OH) | 9-1 | #33 | +0.53 SD |
| 1965 | Miami (OH) | 7-3 | #55 | +0.02 SD |
| 1964 | Miami (OH) | 6-3-1 | #71 | -0.27 SD |
| 1963 | Miami (OH) | 5-3-2 | #75 | -0.58 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).