Robb Akey

Head coach

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

Chemistry

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Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2025Oregon StateHead Coach

2019–2024Central MichiganDefensive Coordinator

As head coach

Rating54Form53≈ as usualPeak54Career56

2007–2025 · 7 seasonsRecord 22-53National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 54: 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 54: best five-season stretch, 2007–2010 at Idaho (17-33), taking over an average program.

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
2025	Oregon State	2-3	#115	-1.09 SD

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

As defensive coordinator

Rating55Peak79

His defense against its preseason projection (value over expectation) and the unit's opponent-adjusted quality.

Season	Team	Unit (EPA/play)	Over expectation	Season score
2024	Central Michigan	-0.11	-0.04	-0.91
2023	Central Michigan	-0.14	-0.11	-1.68
2022	Central Michigan	-0.05	-0.05	-0.69
2021	Central Michigan	0.03	-0.03	-0.05
2020	Central Michigan	0.07	0.03	0.61
2019	Central Michigan	0.02	0.13	1.30

Season score: 0 = an average season in this role; positive = better.