Fred Akers

Head coach, 1975–1990

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

Chemistry

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index in development

Seasons here—

Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1987–1990PurdueHead Coach

1977–1986TexasHead Coach

1975–1976WyomingHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak71Career73

1975–1990 · 16 seasonsRecord 108-75National titles 0Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 64: 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 71: best five-season stretch, 1977–1981 at Texas (46-13, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over already a national power.
Career 73 (#142 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (108-75), 0 national titles, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 3 programs (Texas).

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
1990	Purdue	2-9	#78	-0.57 SD
1989	Purdue	3-8	#73	-0.46 SD
1988	Purdue	4-7	#85	-0.96 SD
1987	Purdue	3-7-1	#66	-0.41 SD
1986	Texas	5-6	#46	+0.12 SD
1985	Texas	8-4	#41	+0.35 SD
1984	Texas	7-4-1	#41	+0.35 SD
1983	Texas	11-1	#9	+1.32 SD
1982	Texas	9-3	#14	+1.24 SD
1981	Texas	10-1-1	#15	+1.26 SD
1980	Texas	7-5	#30	+0.72 SD
1979	Texas	9-3	#7	+1.60 SD
1978	Texas	9-3	#7	+1.75 SD
1977	Texas	11-1	#4	+1.86 SD
1976	Wyoming	8-4	#89	-0.55 SD
1975	Wyoming	2-9	#69	-0.22 SD

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