Coaches / Head coach / Clyde Smith
Career
61
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak59best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
confidence
Clyde Smith
Head coach, 1948–1954
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak59Career61
1948–1954 · 7 seasonsRecord 23-40National 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 59: 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 59: best five-season stretch, 1949–1953 at Indiana and Arizona State (16-28).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Arizona State | 5-5 | #83 | -1.19 SD |
| 1953 | Arizona State | 4-5-1 | #62 | -0.45 SD |
| 1952 | Arizona State | 6-3 | #48 | +0.17 SD |
| 1951 | Indiana | 2-7 | #46 | +0.27 SD |
| 1950 | Indiana | 3-5-1 | #49 | +0.09 SD |
| 1949 | Indiana | 1-8 | #50 | +0.03 SD |
| 1948 | Indiana | 2-7 | #58 | -0.13 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).