Coaches / Head coach / Sonny Dykes
Form · last two seasons
75
performing to its level
Rating75recent
Peak75best 5 yrs
Career72whole career
confidence
Sonny Dykes
Head Coach · TCU
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
68
continuity at TCU · early
Seasons here5
Programs4
Stints5
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
Rating75Form75≈ as usualPeak75Career72
2010–2026 · 16 seasonsRecord 107-79National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 75: 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 75: best five-season stretch, 2019–2023 at SMU and TCU (43-19, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
- Career 72 (#164 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (107-79), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Proven at 3 programs: Louisiana Tech · SMU · TCU.
Over expectation · 2016 on70Results 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 lift64
Evaluation72
Results74
Recruiting66
Staff building77
Game management43
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TCU | 0-0 | #36 | +0.63 SD |
| 2025 | TCU | 9-4 | #33 | +0.73 SD |
| 2024 | TCU | 9-4 | #31 | +0.82 SD |
| 2023 | TCU | 5-7 | #30 | +0.78 SD |
| 2022 | TCU | 13-2 | #8 | +1.58 SD |
| 2021 | SMU | 8-4 | #44 | +0.57 SD |
| 2020 | SMU | 7-3 | — | — |
| 2019 | SMU | 10-3 | #34 | +0.58 SD |
| 2018 | SMU | 5-7 | #96 | -0.74 SD |
| 2016 | California | 5-7 | #58 | +0.16 SD |
| 2015 | California | 8-5 | #26 | +0.85 SD |
| 2014 | California | 5-7 | #51 | +0.20 SD |
| 2013 | California | 1-11 | #97 | -0.73 SD |
| 2012 | Louisiana Tech | 9-3 | #46 | +0.43 SD |
| 2011 | Louisiana Tech | 8-5 | #42 | +0.40 SD |
| 2010 | Louisiana Tech | 5-7 | #78 | -0.42 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).