Bob Woodruff

Head coach, 1947–1959

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

1950–1959FloridaHead Coach

1947–1949BaylorHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak79Career75

1947–1959 · 13 seasonsRecord 72-52National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 79: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 1955–1959 at Florida (27-19), taking over an average program.
Career 75 (#126 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (72-52), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Proven at 2 programs: Baylor · Florida.

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
1959	Florida	5-4-1	#23	+0.67 SD
1958	Florida	6-4-1	#17	+0.77 SD
1957	Florida	6-2-1	#14	+1.08 SD
1956	Florida	6-3-1	#13	+1.04 SD
1955	Florida	4-6	#30	+0.59 SD
1954	Florida	5-5	#32	+0.53 SD
1953	Florida	3-5-2	#28	+0.63 SD
1952	Florida	8-3	#11	+1.20 SD
1951	Florida	5-5	#32	+0.48 SD
1950	Florida	5-5	#65	-0.35 SD
1949	Baylor	8-2	#17	+1.04 SD
1948	Baylor	6-3-2	#24	+0.71 SD
1947	Baylor	5-5	#38	+0.38 SD

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