Dave Wannstedt

Head coach, 2005–2010

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

2005–2010PittsburghHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career68

2005–2010 · 6 seasonsRecord 42-31National 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 70: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 2006–2010 at Pittsburgh (37-25), taking over a good program.

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
2010	Pittsburgh	7-5	#35	+0.63 SD
2009	Pittsburgh	10-3	#19	+1.09 SD
2008	Pittsburgh	9-4	#27	+0.66 SD
2007	Pittsburgh	5-7	#58	+0.13 SD
2006	Pittsburgh	6-6	#38	+0.52 SD
2005	Pittsburgh	5-6	#56	+0.15 SD

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