The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Paul Petrino

Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis unit’s national rank, by season’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26Idaho · HEAD COACHCentral Michigan · OC← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGCentral Michigan, 2022Central Michigan ranked 56th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoCentral Michigan 2022: 28th percentile nationallyCentral Michigan 2023: 42nd percentile nationallySouth Alabama ranked 93rd percentile the year before he arrivedSouth Alabama 2025: 36th percentile nationallyIdaho 2014: 36th percentile (Kris Cinkovich ran the unit)Idaho 2015: 43rd percentile (Kris Cinkovich ran the unit)Idaho 2016: 57th percentile (Kris Cinkovich ran the unit)Idaho 2017: 16th percentile (Kris Cinkovich ran the unit)42nd, career bestCentral Michigan, 202316th percentile
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from coordinator_journeys(); head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from staff_assignments. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.