Coaches / Head coach / Bunny Oakes
Career
50
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak37best 5 yrs
Career50whole career
confidence
Bunny Oakes
Head coach, 1936–1946
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs2
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak37Career50
1936–1946 · 7 seasonsRecord 26-31National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)
- Rating 37: 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 37: best five-season stretch, 1936–1938 at Colorado (15-8), taking over an average program.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Wyoming | 1-8-1 | #94 | -2.20 SD |
| 1942 | Wyoming | 3-5 | #86 | -2.15 SD |
| 1941 | Wyoming | 2-7-1 | #92 | -2.73 SD |
| 1939 | Colorado | 5-3 | #85 | -1.06 SD |
| 1938 | Colorado | 3-4-1 | #85 | -1.10 SD |
| 1937 | Colorado | 8-1 | #45 | +0.21 SD |
| 1936 | Colorado | 4-3 | #68 | -0.34 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).