Odus Mitchell

Head coach, 1953–1966

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

1953–1966North TexasHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak50Career45

1953–1966 · 14 seasonsRecord 69-63National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 43: 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 50: best five-season stretch, 1955–1959 at North Texas (33-15), taking over an average program.
Career 45 (#486 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (69-63), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.

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
1966	North Texas	8-2	#22	+0.78 SD
1965	North Texas	3-7	#100	-1.50 SD
1964	North Texas	2-7-1	#99	-1.49 SD
1963	North Texas	3-6	#95	-1.32 SD
1962	North Texas	6-4	#82	-0.68 SD
1961	North Texas	5-4-1	#91	-1.43 SD
1960	North Texas	2-6-1	#98	-1.92 SD
1959	North Texas	9-2	#45	+0.15 SD
1958	North Texas	7-2-1	#50	+0.12 SD
1957	North Texas	5-5	#75	-0.79 SD
1956	North Texas	7-2-1	#67	-0.46 SD
1955	North Texas	5-4-1	#52	-0.18 SD
1954	North Texas	4-6	#72	-0.64 SD
1953	North Texas	3-6-1	#69	-0.65 SD

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