Jim Tressel

Head coach, 2001–2010

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2001–2010Ohio StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak84Career79

2001–2010 · 10 seasonsRecord 106-22National titles 1Great seasons 4 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 84: 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 84: best five-season stretch, 2005–2009 at Ohio State (54-10, 4 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over already a national power.
Career 79 (#61 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (106-22), 1 national title, 4 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Ohio State) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
2010	Ohio State	12-1	#7	+1.53 SD
2009	Ohio State	11-2	#11	+1.27 SD
2008	Ohio State	10-3	#9	+1.41 SD
2007	Ohio State	11-2	#10	+1.53 SD
2006	Ohio State	12-1	#2	+1.89 SD
2005	Ohio State	10-2	#3	+2.09 SD
2004	Ohio State	8-4	#25	+0.87 SD
2003	Ohio State	11-2	#16	+1.06 SD
2002	Ohio State	14-0	#7	+1.47 SD
2001	Ohio State	7-5	#29	+0.74 SD

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