Coaches / Head coach / Ray Graves
Career
75
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak77best 5 yrs
Career75whole career
confidence
Ray Graves
Head coach, 1960–1969
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak77Career75
1960–1969 · 10 seasonsRecord 70-31National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 77: 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 77: best five-season stretch, 1962–1966 at Florida (36-16, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
- Career 75 (#120 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (70-31), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- All of it at one program (Florida) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Florida | 9-1-1 | #18 | +1.18 SD |
| 1968 | Florida | 6-3-1 | #49 | +0.25 SD |
| 1967 | Florida | 6-4 | #27 | +0.78 SD |
| 1966 | Florida | 9-2 | #9 | +1.34 SD |
| 1965 | Florida | 7-4 | #11 | +1.34 SD |
| 1964 | Florida | 7-3 | #8 | +1.32 SD |
| 1963 | Florida | 6-3-1 | #31 | +0.69 SD |
| 1962 | Florida | 7-4 | #18 | +1.01 SD |
| 1961 | Florida | 4-5-1 | #44 | +0.14 SD |
| 1960 | Florida | 9-2 | #22 | +0.91 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).