Bob Higgins

Head coach, 1936–1948

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

1936–1948Penn StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak73Career68

1936–1948 · 10 seasonsRecord 57-20National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 73: 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 73: best five-season stretch, 1941–1948 at Penn State (35-6), taking over an average program.
Career 68 (#218 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (57-20), 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
1948	Penn State	7-1-1	#18	+0.89 SD
1947	Penn State	9-0-1	#17	+0.94 SD
1946	Penn State	6-2	#30	+0.52 SD
1945	Penn State	5-3	#33 (wartime)	+0.06 SD
1944	Penn State	6-3	#48 (wartime)	-0.51 SD
1943	Penn State	5-3-1	#30 (wartime)	-0.01 SD
1942	Penn State	6-1-1	#47	+0.04 SD
1941	Penn State	7-2	#32	+0.52 SD
1940	Penn State	6-1-1	#50	+0.05 SD
1939	Penn State	5-1-2	#51	-0.02 SD
1938	Penn State	3-4-1	#45	+0.20 SD
1937	Penn State	5-3	#39	+0.36 SD
1936	Penn State	3-5	#63	-0.21 SD

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