Coaches / Head coach / Mike Norvell
Form · last two seasons
74
performing to its level
Rating74recent
Peak74best 5 yrs
Career71whole career
confidence
Mike Norvell
Head Coach · Florida State
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
50
continuity at Florida State · early
Seasons here7
Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
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
Rating74Form74≈ as usualPeak74Career71
2016–2026 · 11 seasonsRecord 76-50National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 2016–2019 at Memphis (38-16), taking over a losing program.
- Career 71 (#167 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (76-50), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Memphis).
Over expectation · 2016 on54Results 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 lift51
Evaluation34
Results72
Recruiting56
Staff building59
Game management34
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Florida State | 0-0 | #33 | +0.71 SD |
| 2025 | Florida State | 5-7 | #34 | +0.72 SD |
| 2024 | Florida State | 2-10 | #96 | -0.60 SD |
| 2023 | Florida State | 13-1 | #7 | +1.78 SD |
| 2022 | Florida State | 10-3 | #14 | +1.34 SD |
| 2021 | Florida State | 5-7 | #53 | +0.37 SD |
| 2020 | Florida State | 3-6 | — | — |
| 2019 | Memphis | 12-2 | #20 | +1.09 SD |
| 2018 | Memphis | 8-6 | #61 | +0.10 SD |
| 2017 | Memphis | 10-3 | #31 | +0.80 SD |
| 2016 | Memphis | 8-5 | #50 | +0.32 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).