Bump Elliott

Head coach, 1959–1968

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

1959–1968MichiganHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak74Career73

1959–1968 · 10 seasonsRecord 51-42National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Michigan (25-19, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
Career 73 (#140 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (51-42), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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
1968	Michigan	8-2	#20	+0.92 SD
1967	Michigan	4-6	#73	-0.37 SD
1966	Michigan	6-4	#25	+0.70 SD
1965	Michigan	4-6	#18	+0.96 SD
1964	Michigan	9-1	#2	+2.02 SD
1963	Michigan	3-4-2	#17	+1.04 SD
1962	Michigan	2-7	#64	-0.10 SD
1961	Michigan	6-3	#10	+1.15 SD
1960	Michigan	5-4	#13	+1.13 SD
1959	Michigan	4-5	#48	+0.08 SD

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