Tyrone Willingham

Head coach, 1995–2008

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

Chemistry

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Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2005–2008WashingtonHead Coach

2002–2004Notre DameHead Coach

1995–2001StanfordHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak62Career69

1995–2008 · 14 seasonsRecord 76-88National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 62: 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 62: best five-season stretch, 2000–2004 at Stanford and Notre Dame (35-24).
Career 69 (#204 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (76-88), 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
2008	Washington	0-12	#107	-1.24 SD
2007	Washington	4-9	#46	+0.44 SD
2006	Washington	5-7	#52	+0.26 SD
2005	Washington	2-9	#65	-0.07 SD
2004	Notre Dame	6-5	#31	+0.70 SD
2003	Notre Dame	5-7	#52	+0.15 SD
2002	Notre Dame	10-3	#23	+0.91 SD
2001	Stanford	9-3	#23	+0.91 SD
2000	Stanford	5-6	#37	+0.46 SD
1999	Stanford	8-4	#33	+0.57 SD
1998	Stanford	3-8	#69	-0.35 SD
1997	Stanford	5-6	#45	+0.32 SD
1996	Stanford	7-5	#37	+0.52 SD
1995	Stanford	7-4-1	#37	+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).