Jeff Cravath

Head coach, 1941–1950

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

1942–1950USCHead Coach

1941San FranciscoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak69Career68

1941–1950 · 7 seasonsRecord 37-26National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 69: 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 69: best five-season stretch, 1942–1949 at USC (29-17, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a good program.

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	USC	2-5-2	#68	-0.44 SD
1949	USC	5-3-1	#11	+1.20 SD
1948	USC	6-3-1	#22	+0.74 SD
1947	USC	7-2-1	#8	+1.43 SD
1946	USC	6-4	#29	+0.56 SD
1945	USC	7-4	#34 (wartime)	+0.03 SD
1944	USC	8-0-2	#10 (wartime)	+1.24 SD
1943	USC	8-2	#8 (wartime)	+1.18 SD
1942	USC	5-5-1	#38	+0.21 SD
1941	San Francisco	6-4	#70	-0.69 SD

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