Coaches / Head coach / Dixie Howell
Career
47
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak54best 5 yrs
Career47whole career
confidence
Dixie Howell
Head coach, 1938–1950
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1947–1950IdahoHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak54Career47
1938–1950 · 8 seasonsRecord 36-35National titles 0Great seasons 0 (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 54: best five-season stretch, 1938–1940 at Arizona State (18-10), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
- Career 47 (#482 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (36-35), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Idaho | 3-5-1 | #83 | -0.89 SD |
| 1949 | Idaho | 3-5 | #85 | -1.00 SD |
| 1948 | Idaho | 3-6 | #83 | -1.10 SD |
| 1947 | Idaho | 4-4 | #93 | -1.50 SD |
| 1941 | Arizona State | 5-5-1 | #88 | -1.87 SD |
| 1940 | Arizona State | 7-2-2 | #79 | -0.79 SD |
| 1939 | Arizona State | 8-2-1 | #70 | -0.57 SD |
| 1938 | Arizona State | 3-6 | #95 | -2.02 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).