Tommy Hudspeth

Head coach, 1964–1973

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1973UTEPHead Coach

1964–1971BYUHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak67Career57

1964–1973 · 9 seasonsRecord 39-53National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 60: 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 67: best five-season stretch, 1964–1967 at BYU (23-16), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 57 (#389 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (39-53), 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
1973	UTEP	0-11	#107	-2.31 SD
1971	BYU	5-6	#59	-0.15 SD
1970	BYU	3-8	#87	-0.88 SD
1969	BYU	6-4	#49	+0.10 SD
1968	BYU	2-8	#84	-0.83 SD
1967	BYU	6-4	#34	+0.49 SD
1966	BYU	8-2	#28	+0.62 SD
1965	BYU	6-4	#62	-0.20 SD
1964	BYU	3-6-1	#81	-0.63 SD

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