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61
not coaching now
Rating59recent
Peak65best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
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Gary Andersen

Chief Consultant to Head Coach / Senior Defensive Consultant · BYU

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

Chemistry
Chem 55: typical55
continuity at Utah State · early
Seasons here2
Programs4
Stints5

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2025–2026BYUChief Consultant to Head Coach / Senior Defensive Consultant
2019–2020Utah StateHead Coach
2015–2017Oregon StateHead Coach
2013–2014WisconsinHead Coach
2009–2012Utah StateHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Utah State
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here70Staff 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 retentionsoonFollowers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator56Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity39
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
70
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)
soon
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
56
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
39
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

Rating59Peak65Career61
2003–2020 · 12 seasonsRecord 63-70National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • 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 65: best five-season stretch, 2010–2014 at Utah State and Wisconsin (41-23).
  • Career 61 (#332 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (63-70), 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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2020Utah State0-3#73-1.70 SD
2019Utah State7-6#86-0.40 SD
2017Oregon State1-5#117-1.26 SD
2016Oregon State4-8#59+0.13 SD
2015Oregon State2-10#98-0.84 SD
2014Wisconsin10-3#17+1.19 SD
2013Wisconsin9-4#14+1.32 SD
2012Utah State11-2#19+1.02 SD
2011Utah State7-6#74-0.26 SD
2010Utah State4-8#95-0.92 SD
2009Utah State4-8#93-0.79 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).