Coaches / Head coach / Pete Lembo
Form · last two seasons
51
▼ Underperforming -5
Rating56recent
Peak71best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Pete Lembo
Head Coach · Buffalo
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
57
continuity at Buffalo · early
Seasons here3
Programs6
Stints6
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
Rating56Form51▼ 5 under-performingPeak71Career60
2001–2026 · 18 seasonsRecord 126-76National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 56: 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 71: best five-season stretch, 2001–2003 at Lehigh (27-8), taking over an average program.
- Career 60 (#339 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (126-76), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 4 programs (Lehigh).
Over expectation · 2016 on58Results 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 lift61
Evaluation85
Results56
Recruiting63
Staff building56
Game management55
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Buffalo | 0-0 | #137 | -1.96 SD |
| 2025 | Buffalo | 5-7 | #119 | -1.22 SD |
| 2024 | Buffalo | 9-4 | #93 | -0.55 SD |
| 2015 | Ball State | 3-9 | #106 | -1.16 SD |
| 2014 | Ball State | 5-7 | #96 | -0.81 SD |
| 2013 | Ball State | 10-3 | #63 | +0.05 SD |
| 2012 | Ball State | 9-4 | #71 | -0.33 SD |
| 2011 | Ball State | 6-6 | #97 | -0.77 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).