Casey Woods

Casey Woods went 2–⁠4 as a head coach, 2026, at Missouri State. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 1–⁠4); by them his record is 1–⁠4.

Record
2–⁠4 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Born
Aug 29, 1980
Alma mater
Tennessee 2006
Best season
2026 2–⁠4

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2026Missouri State2–⁠4 (Wikipedia: 1–⁠4)

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams20–⁠2
Against top-10 teams10–⁠1
Conference games21–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer21–⁠1
At home32–⁠1
On the road30–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite22–⁠0
As our Elo’s underdog40–⁠4

His own six games on file, 2026, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Kennesaw Stateseries11–⁠0
Lindenwoodseries11–⁠0
Western Kentuckyseries10–⁠1
Texas A&Mseries10–⁠1
Marshallseries10–⁠1
SMUseries10–⁠1

National title staffs

Every title staff

The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.

Career

YearsTeamJob
2008TennesseeGraduate assistant
2009–⁠11AuburnOffensive quality control coach
2012Arkansas StateWide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator
2017–⁠19UABRunning game coordinator, tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
2020–⁠21MissouriTight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
2022–⁠25SMUOffensive coordinator and tight ends coach
2026–presentMissouri StateHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Casey Woods

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (7)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Phillip FulmerTennessee2008Graduate assistant
Gene ChizikAuburn2009–⁠11Offensive quality control coach
Gus MalzahnArkansas State2012Wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator
John ThompsonArkansas State2012Wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator
Bill ClarkUAB2017–⁠19Running game coordinator, tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
Eli DrinkwitzMissouri2020–⁠21Tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
Rhett LashleeSMU2022–⁠25Offensive coordinator and tight ends coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Sparky WoodsMissouri State, 2026: assistant coachSouth Carolina, App State, VMI
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
Jack CurtisMissouri State, 2026: defensive coordinator
Mark CalaMissouri State, 2026: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.

How he coached

Woods’s teams went for it on 36% of fourth downs and on 53% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 51% of plays and took 24.9 seconds a play, in 2026.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2026 6 g16 of 45 36%53%51%24.90.00

His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.