Coaches / Head coach / Bowden Wyatt
Career
70
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak75best 5 yrs
Career70whole career
confidence
Bowden Wyatt
Head coach, 1947–1962
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak75Career70
1947–1962 · 16 seasonsRecord 99-56National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 75: 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 75: best five-season stretch, 1953–1957 at Arkansas and Tennessee (35-17, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength).
- Career 70 (#185 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (99-56), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 3 programs (Tennessee).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Tennessee | 4-6 | #36 | +0.43 SD |
| 1961 | Tennessee | 6-4 | #13 | +1.09 SD |
| 1960 | Tennessee | 6-2-2 | #17 | +1.03 SD |
| 1959 | Tennessee | 5-4-1 | #27 | +0.63 SD |
| 1958 | Tennessee | 4-6 | #42 | +0.22 SD |
| 1957 | Tennessee | 8-3 | #9 | +1.37 SD |
| 1956 | Tennessee | 10-1 | #3 | +1.87 SD |
| 1955 | Tennessee | 6-3-1 | #19 | +0.79 SD |
| 1954 | Arkansas | 8-3 | #14 | +1.10 SD |
| 1953 | Arkansas | 3-7 | #33 | +0.47 SD |
| 1952 | Wyoming | 5-4 | #80 | -1.06 SD |
| 1951 | Wyoming | 7-2-1 | #55 | -0.03 SD |
| 1950 | Wyoming | 10-0 | #26 | +0.84 SD |
| 1949 | Wyoming | 9-1 | #57 | -0.26 SD |
| 1948 | Wyoming | 4-5 | #92 | -1.71 SD |
| 1947 | Wyoming | 4-5 | #99 | -1.84 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).