The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Trent Bray

Defensive 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’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26Oregon State · DCOregon St→ BECAME HEAD COACHOregon State, 2024← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGWashington State, 2026Oregon State ranked 27th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoOregon State 2022: 90th percentile nationallyOregon State 2023: 61st percentile nationallyWashington State ranked 89th percentile the year before he arrivedWashington State 2026: 81st percentile nationallyOregon State 2024: 13th percentile (Keith Heyward ran the unit)Oregon State 2025: 55th percentile (Rod Chance ran the unit)90th, career bestOregon State, 202213th 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.