Charley Pell

Head coach, 1977–1984

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1979–1984FloridaHead Coach

1977–1978ClemsonHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak79Career74

1977–1984 · 8 seasonsRecord 51-30National titles 0Great seasons 2 (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, 1980–1984 at Florida (33-16, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
Career 74 (#127 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (51-30), 0 national titles, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (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
1984	Florida	1-1-1	#1	+2.01 SD
1983	Florida	9-2-1	#3	+1.75 SD
1982	Florida	8-4	#26	+0.97 SD
1981	Florida	7-5	#18	+1.09 SD
1980	Florida	8-4	#21	+1.06 SD
1979	Florida	0-10-1	#80	-0.38 SD
1978	Clemson	10-1	#13	+1.36 SD
1977	Clemson	8-3-1	#17	+0.95 SD

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