Ray Nagel

Head coach, 1958–1970

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1966–1970IowaHead Coach

1958–1965UtahHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak58Career59

1958–1970 · 13 seasonsRecord 58-71National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 58: 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 58: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Utah (30-20, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 59 (#356 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (58-71), 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
1970	Iowa	3-6-1	#65	-0.29 SD
1969	Iowa	5-5	#52	+0.04 SD
1968	Iowa	5-5	#28	+0.61 SD
1967	Iowa	1-8-1	#81	-0.58 SD
1966	Iowa	2-8	#93	-1.13 SD
1965	Utah	3-7	#71	-0.39 SD
1964	Utah	9-2	#10	+1.24 SD
1963	Utah	4-6	#64	-0.27 SD
1962	Utah	4-5-1	#75	-0.51 SD
1961	Utah	6-4	#46	+0.13 SD
1960	Utah	7-3	#50	+0.07 SD
1959	Utah	5-5	#66	-0.28 SD
1958	Utah	4-7	#80	-0.98 SD

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