Coaches / Head coach / Scott Satterfield
Form · last two seasons
62
performing to its level
Rating63recent
Peak63best 5 yrs
Career66whole career
confidence
Scott Satterfield
Head Coach · Cincinnati
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
64
continuity at Cincinnati · early
Seasons here4
Programs3
Stints3
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
Rating63Form62≈ as usualPeak63Career66
2013–2026 · 14 seasonsRecord 91-70National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 63: 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 63: best five-season stretch, 2018–2022 at App State and Louisville (35-26).
- Career 66 (#248 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (91-70), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Over expectation · 2016 on67Results 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 lift65
Evaluation55
Results69
Recruiting64
Staff building75
Game management59
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cincinnati | 0-0 | #65 | +0.18 SD |
| 2025 | Cincinnati | 7-6 | #57 | +0.25 SD |
| 2024 | Cincinnati | 5-7 | #52 | +0.39 SD |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 3-9 | #83 | -0.34 SD |
| 2022 | Louisville | 7-5 | #21 | +1.00 SD |
| 2021 | Louisville | 6-7 | #31 | +0.76 SD |
| 2020 | Louisville | 4-7 | — | — |
| 2019 | Louisville | 8-5 | #59 | +0.01 SD |
| 2018 | App State | 10-2 | #26 | +0.85 SD |
| 2017 | App State | 9-4 | #59 | +0.12 SD |
| 2016 | App State | 10-3 | #45 | +0.40 SD |
| 2015 | App State | 11-2 | #58 | +0.19 SD |
| 2014 | App State | 7-5 | #92 | -0.64 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).