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Form · last two seasons
78
performing to its level
Rating79recent
Peak79best 5 yrs
Career80whole career
confidence

Kyle Whittingham

Head Coach · Michigan

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

Chemistry
Chem 56: typical56
continuity at Michigan · early
Seasons here1
Programs2
Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2026MichiganHead Coach
2004–2025UtahHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Michigan
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here29Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retentionsoonFollowers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers95QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator56Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity51
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
29
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
soon
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
95
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
56
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
51
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating79Form78≈ as usualPeak79Career80
2004–2026 · 23 seasonsRecord 177-88National titles 0Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 79: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 2021–2025 at Utah (43-22, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over an average program.
  • Career 80 (#52 since 1936): total accomplishment over 23 seasons (177-88), 0 national titles, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
  • Won big at one of his 2 programs (Utah).
Over expectation · 2016 on69Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).

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.

Program lift68
Evaluation45
Results79
Recruiting55
Staff building72
Game management36
SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2026Michigan0-0#57+0.27 SD
2025Utah10-2#7+1.83 SD
2024Utah5-7#43+0.55 SD
2023Utah8-5#32+0.74 SD
2022Utah10-4#9+1.57 SD
2021Utah10-4#8+1.43 SD
2020Utah3-2——
2019Utah11-3#12+1.42 SD
2018Utah9-5#27+0.84 SD
2017Utah7-6#38+0.56 SD
2016Utah9-4#31+0.74 SD
2015Utah10-3#23+0.92 SD
2014Utah9-4#30+0.83 SD
2013Utah5-7#30+0.68 SD
2012Utah5-7#57+0.24 SD
2011Utah8-5#40+0.42 SD
2010Utah10-3#33+0.71 SD
2009Utah10-3#40+0.51 SD
2008Utah13-0#13+1.30 SD
2007Utah9-4#36+0.64 SD
2006Utah8-5#47+0.37 SD
2005Utah7-5#53+0.23 SD
2004Utah1-0#3+1.91 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).