Coaches / Head coach / Chris Creighton
Form · last two seasons
48
▼ Underperforming -6
Rating54recent
Peak73best 5 yrs
Career58whole career
confidence
Chris Creighton
Head Coach · Eastern Michigan
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
64
continuity at Eastern Michigan · early
Seasons here13
Programs1
Stints1
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.
As head coach
Rating54Form48▼ 6 under-performingPeak73Career58
1997–2026 · 30 seasonsRecord 200-129National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 54: 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 73: best five-season stretch, 1998–2002 at Ottawa and Wabash (43-10).
- Career 58 (#364 since 1936): total accomplishment over 30 seasons (200-129), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Proven at 2 programs: Ottawa · Wabash.
Over expectation · 2016 on54Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).
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.
Program lift57
Evaluation62
Results52
Recruiting79
Staff building39
Game management67
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Eastern Michigan | 0-0 | #111 | -0.96 SD |
| 2025 | Eastern Michigan | 4-8 | #127 | -1.40 SD |
| 2024 | Eastern Michigan | 5-7 | #114 | -1.08 SD |
| 2023 | Eastern Michigan | 6-7 | #126 | -1.54 SD |
| 2022 | Eastern Michigan | 9-4 | #101 | -0.87 SD |
| 2021 | Eastern Michigan | 7-6 | #86 | -0.46 SD |
| 2020 | Eastern Michigan | 2-4 | — | — |
| 2019 | Eastern Michigan | 6-7 | #102 | -0.70 SD |
| 2018 | Eastern Michigan | 7-6 | #83 | -0.27 SD |
| 2017 | Eastern Michigan | 5-7 | #80 | -0.32 SD |
| 2016 | Eastern Michigan | 7-6 | #92 | -0.70 SD |
| 2015 | Eastern Michigan | 1-11 | #124 | -1.75 SD |
| 2014 | Eastern Michigan | 2-10 | #128 | -2.11 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).