Coaches / Head coach / Jeff Bower
Career
68
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak67best 5 yrs
Career68whole career
confidence
Jeff Bower
Head coach, 1990–2007
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak67Career68
1990–2007 · 18 seasonsRecord 118-84National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 67: 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 67: best five-season stretch, 1996–2000 at Southern Miss (41-18), taking over an average program.
- Career 68 (#215 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (118-84), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Southern Miss | 7-6 | #71 | -0.24 SD |
| 2006 | Southern Miss | 9-5 | #54 | +0.18 SD |
| 2005 | Southern Miss | 7-5 | #62 | +0.02 SD |
| 2004 | Southern Miss | 7-5 | #70 | -0.15 SD |
| 2003 | Southern Miss | 9-4 | #50 | +0.16 SD |
| 2002 | Southern Miss | 7-6 | #67 | -0.08 SD |
| 2001 | Southern Miss | 6-5 | #49 | +0.31 SD |
| 2000 | Southern Miss | 8-4 | #31 | +0.61 SD |
| 1999 | Southern Miss | 9-3 | #18 | +1.04 SD |
| 1998 | Southern Miss | 7-5 | #31 | +0.68 SD |
| 1997 | Southern Miss | 9-3 | #23 | +0.78 SD |
| 1996 | Southern Miss | 8-3 | #38 | +0.51 SD |
| 1995 | Southern Miss | 6-5 | #46 | +0.20 SD |
| 1994 | Southern Miss | 6-5 | #56 | +0.04 SD |
| 1993 | Southern Miss | 2-8-1 | #80 | -0.78 SD |
| 1992 | Southern Miss | 7-4 | #46 | +0.17 SD |
| 1991 | Southern Miss | 4-7 | #70 | -0.47 SD |
| 1990 | Southern Miss | 0-1 | #36 | +0.47 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).