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Form · last two seasons
79
▼ Underperforming -7
Rating86recent
Peak93best 5 yrs
Career88whole career
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Dabo Swinney

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

Chemistry
Chem 70: strong70
continuity at Clemson · early
Seasons here19
Programs1
Stints1

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2008–2026ClemsonHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Clemson
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here94Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retention87Followers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator73Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity60
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
94
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
87
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
73
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
60
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

Rating86Form79▼ 7 under-performingPeak93Career88
2008–2026 · 19 seasonsRecord 187-53National titles 2Great seasons 5 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 86: 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 93: best five-season stretch, 2015–2019 at Clemson (69-5, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 2 national titles), taking over a good program.
  • Career 88 (#22 since 1936): total accomplishment over 19 seasons (187-53), 2 national titles, 5 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
  • All of it at one program (Clemson) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.
Over expectation · 2016 on65Results 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 lift50
Evaluation94
Results81
Recruiting26
Staff building41
Game management59
SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2026Clemson0-0#59+0.25 SD
2025Clemson7-6#41+0.53 SD
2024Clemson10-4#23+1.06 SD
2023Clemson9-4#21+0.98 SD
2022Clemson11-3#15+1.32 SD
2021Clemson10-3#17+1.04 SD
2020Clemson10-2——
2019Clemson14-1#4+2.16 SD
2018Clemson15-0#2+2.58 SD
2017Clemson12-2#3+1.97 SD
2016Clemson14-1#3+2.05 SD
2015Clemson14-1#3+1.73 SD
2014Clemson10-3#21+1.08 SD
2013Clemson11-2#15+1.30 SD
2012Clemson11-2#13+1.25 SD
2011Clemson10-4#32+0.50 SD
2010Clemson6-7#36+0.62 SD
2009Clemson9-5#14+1.25 SD
2008Clemson4-3#26+0.67 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).