Neil Callaway

Head coach

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

Chemistry

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index in development

Seasons here—

Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2021PurdueAssistant Coach (Assistant Offensive Line)

2016–2017USCOffensive Line

2007–2011UABHead Coach

As head coach

Rating40Peak40Career53

2007–2011 · 5 seasonsRecord 18-42National 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 40: 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 40: best five-season stretch, 2007–2010 at UAB (15-33), taking over a losing 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
2011	UAB	3-9	#112	-1.65 SD
2010	UAB	4-8	#96	-0.92 SD
2009	UAB	5-7	#89	-0.68 SD
2008	UAB	4-8	#105	-1.14 SD
2007	UAB	2-10	#115	-1.70 SD

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