Ted Tollner

Head coach, 1983–2001

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1994–2001San Diego StateHead Coach

1983–1986USCHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak57Career64

1983–2001 · 12 seasonsRecord 69-68National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 57: 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 57: best five-season stretch, 1985–1996 at USC and San Diego State (33-25).
Career 64 (#277 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (69-68), 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
2001	San Diego State	3-8	#99	-1.15 SD
2000	San Diego State	3-8	#80	-0.47 SD
1999	San Diego State	5-6	#48	+0.21 SD
1998	San Diego State	7-5	#63	-0.15 SD
1997	San Diego State	5-7	#71	-0.29 SD
1996	San Diego State	8-3	#41	+0.33 SD
1995	San Diego State	8-4	#52	+0.12 SD
1994	San Diego State	4-7	#58	+0.02 SD
1986	USC	7-5	#18	+1.04 SD
1985	USC	6-6	#31	+0.51 SD
1984	USC	9-3	#32	+0.66 SD
1983	USC	4-6-1	#44	+0.10 SD

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