Pepper Rodgers

Head coach, 1967–1979

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

1974–1979Georgia TechHead Coach

1971–1973UCLAHead Coach

1967–1970KansasHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career73

1967–1979 · 13 seasonsRecord 73-65National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 70: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 1967–1969 at Kansas (15-16, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 73 (#146 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (73-65), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 3 programs (Kansas).

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
1979	Georgia Tech	4-6-1	#66	-0.15 SD
1978	Georgia Tech	7-5	#46	+0.32 SD
1977	Georgia Tech	6-5	#37	+0.53 SD
1976	Georgia Tech	4-6-1	#51	+0.19 SD
1975	Georgia Tech	7-4	#41	+0.38 SD
1974	Georgia Tech	6-5	#34	+0.56 SD
1973	UCLA	9-2	#7	+1.74 SD
1972	UCLA	8-3	#10	+1.19 SD
1971	UCLA	2-7-1	#54	-0.07 SD
1970	Kansas	5-6	#30	+0.58 SD
1969	Kansas	1-9	#53	+0.02 SD
1968	Kansas	9-2	#6	+1.47 SD
1967	Kansas	5-5	#38	+0.38 SD

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