Tommy Bowden

Head coach, 1997–2008

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1999–2008ClemsonHead Coach

1997–1998TulaneHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak78Career75

1997–2008 · 12 seasonsRecord 90-49National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 78: 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 78: best five-season stretch, 1997–1999 at Tulane and Clemson (24-10).
Career 75 (#118 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (90-49), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Clemson).

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
2008	Clemson	3-3	#26	+0.67 SD
2007	Clemson	9-4	#14	+1.23 SD
2006	Clemson	8-5	#21	+0.97 SD
2005	Clemson	8-4	#28	+0.85 SD
2004	Clemson	6-5	#37	+0.50 SD
2003	Clemson	9-4	#13	+1.18 SD
2002	Clemson	7-6	#53	+0.25 SD
2001	Clemson	7-5	#47	+0.42 SD
2000	Clemson	9-3	#17	+0.99 SD
1999	Clemson	6-6	#20	+1.00 SD
1998	Tulane	11-0	#26	+0.94 SD
1997	Tulane	7-4	#43	+0.39 SD

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