Charles Atkinson

Head coach, 1949–1955

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

1949–1955BYUHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak24Career31

1949–1955 · 7 seasonsRecord 18-49National 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 24: 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 24: best five-season stretch, 1950–1954 at BYU (17-29), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.

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
1955	BYU	1-9	#93	-2.62 SD
1954	BYU	1-8	#93	-2.17 SD
1953	BYU	2-7-1	#84	-1.31 SD
1952	BYU	4-6	#87	-1.69 SD
1951	BYU	6-3-1	#91	-1.67 SD
1950	BYU	4-5-1	#91	-1.72 SD
1949	BYU	0-11	#97	-2.88 SD

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