Coaches / Head coach / Ken Hatfield
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak67best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
confidence
Ken Hatfield
Head coach, 1979–2005
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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index in development
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Programs4
Stints4
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak67Career61
1979–2005 · 27 seasonsRecord 168-140National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 53: 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, 1986–1990 at Arkansas and Clemson (48-13, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
- Career 61 (#320 since 1936): total accomplishment over 27 seasons (168-140), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 4 programs (Arkansas).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Rice | 1-10 | #106 | -1.45 SD |
| 2004 | Rice | 3-8 | #97 | -0.95 SD |
| 2003 | Rice | 5-7 | #93 | -0.85 SD |
| 2002 | Rice | 4-7 | #98 | -1.07 SD |
| 2001 | Rice | 8-4 | #85 | -0.70 SD |
| 2000 | Rice | 3-8 | #87 | -0.69 SD |
| 1999 | Rice | 5-6 | #78 | -0.42 SD |
| 1998 | Rice | 5-6 | #58 | -0.03 SD |
| 1997 | Rice | 7-4 | #67 | -0.18 SD |
| 1996 | Rice | 7-4 | #44 | +0.28 SD |
| 1995 | Rice | 2-8-1 | #81 | -0.63 SD |
| 1994 | Rice | 5-6 | #68 | -0.24 SD |
| 1993 | Clemson | 8-3 | #54 | -0.03 SD |
| 1992 | Clemson | 5-6 | #38 | +0.37 SD |
| 1991 | Clemson | 9-2-1 | #21 | +0.83 SD |
| 1990 | Clemson | 10-2 | #10 | +1.46 SD |
| 1989 | Arkansas | 10-2 | #14 | +1.22 SD |
| 1988 | Arkansas | 10-2 | #17 | +1.06 SD |
| 1987 | Arkansas | 9-4 | #27 | +0.57 SD |
| 1986 | Arkansas | 9-3 | #24 | +0.74 SD |
| 1985 | Arkansas | 10-2 | #20 | +1.01 SD |
| 1984 | Arkansas | 7-4-1 | #21 | +0.94 SD |
| 1983 | Air Force | 10-2 | #35 | +0.61 SD |
| 1982 | Air Force | 8-5 | #50 | +0.08 SD |
| 1981 | Air Force | 4-7 | #91 | -0.60 SD |
| 1980 | Air Force | 2-9-1 | #94 | -0.77 SD |
| 1979 | Air Force | 2-9 | #111 | -1.29 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).