Gary Moeller

Head coach, 1977–1994

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1990–1994MichiganHead Coach

1977–1979IllinoisHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak78Career72

1977–1994 · 8 seasonsRecord 50-37National titles 0Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 78: 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 78: best five-season stretch, 1990–1994 at Michigan (44-13, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over already a national power.
Career 72 (#155 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (50-37), 0 national titles, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Michigan).

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
1994	Michigan	8-4	#8	+1.47 SD
1993	Michigan	8-4	#9	+1.44 SD
1992	Michigan	9-0-3	#4	+1.92 SD
1991	Michigan	10-2	#3	+1.83 SD
1990	Michigan	9-3	#7	+1.55 SD
1979	Illinois	2-8-1	#84	-0.49 SD
1978	Illinois	1-8-2	#99	-0.92 SD
1977	Illinois	3-8	#89	-0.62 SD

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