
Dan Lanning
Dan Lanning went 52–10 as a head coach, 2022–2026, at Oregon. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 3–2); by them his record is 51–10. Share
- Record
- 52–10 career
- Seasons
- 5
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 3 seasons
- Born
- Apr 10, 1986
- Best season
- 2024 13–1, No. 3
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Oregon | 10–3 | T–2nd | Holiday Bowl W | 15 | |
| 2023 | Oregon | 12–2 | 2nd | Fiesta Bowl W | 6 | |
| 2024 | Oregon | 13–1 | 1st | Rose Bowl, CFP Quarterfinal L | 3 | |
| 2025 | Oregon | 13–2 | 3rd | CFP First Round W; Orange Bowl, CFP Quarterfinal W; Peach Bowl, CFP Semifinal L | 4 | |
| 2026 | Oregon | 4–2 (Wikipedia: 3–2) |
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.
Players he coached
Kenyon SadiqNo. 16 pick, 2026
Derrick HarmonNo. 21 pick, 2025
Bryce Boettcher2024 Burlsworth Trophy
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 24 | 15–9 | 63% |
| Against top-10 teams | 12 | 6–6 | 50% |
| Against rivals | 14 | 10–4 | 71% |
| Conference games | 39 | 34–5 | 87% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 6 | 4–2 | 67% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 18 | 12–6 | 67% |
| At home | 32 | 29–3 | 91% |
| On the road | 22 | 19–3 | 86% |
| At neutral sites | 8 | 4–4 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 55 | 47–8 | 85% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 7 | 5–2 | 71% |
His own 62 games on file, 2022–2026, 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.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jedd Fisch 2022–2025 | 3–0 | Arizona, Washington | 3 | |
| Lincoln Riley 2023–2026 | 3–0 | USC | 3 | |
| Jonathan Smith 2022–2024 | 2–1 | Oregon State, Michigan State | 3 | |
| Kalen DeBoer 2022–2023 | 0–3 | Washington | 3 |
Dan Lanning’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Washingtonseries | 5 | 2–3 |
| Oregon Stateseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| USCseries | 3 | 3–0 |
| UCLAseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Stanfordseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Californiaseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Coloradoseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Boise Stateseries | 2 | 2–0 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Georgia’s 2021 staff (Fain and Billy Slaughter defensive coordinator – outside linebackers, part of the season) · the staff · source
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.
How he was hired
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–10 | Park Hill South HS (MO) high school | Special teams, defensive backs and wide receivers coach | |
| 2011 | Pittsburgh | Graduate assistant | |
| 2012 | Arizona State | Graduate assistant | |
| 2013 | Arizona State | Recruiting coordinator | |
| 2014 | Sam Houston State | Defensive backs coach and co-recruiting coordinator | |
| 2015 | Alabama | Graduate assistant | |
| 2016–17 | Memphis | Inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| 2018 | Georgia | Outside linebackers coach | |
| 2019–21 | Georgia | Defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| 2022–present | Oregon | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Todd GrahamPittsburgh, Arizona State
- Keith PattersonPittsburgh
- K.C. KeelerSam Houston
- Nick SabanAlabama
- Mike NorvellMemphis
- Kirby SmartGeorgia
Assistants who became head coaches
- Bob GregoryBoise State, Washington
- Kenny DillinghamArizona State
- Tosh LupoiCalifornia
- Trent FiggCalvin
- Will SteinKentucky
- Ryan SwitzerTulsa
Worked under (6)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd Graham | Pittsburgh | 2011 | Graduate assistant | |
| Keith Patterson | Pittsburgh | 2011 | Graduate assistant | |
| Todd Graham | Arizona State | 2012–13 | 2012: graduate assistant; 2013: recruiting coordinator | |
| K.C. Keeler | Sam Houston | 2014 | Defensive backs coach and co-recruiting coordinator | |
| Nick Saban | Alabama | 2015 | Graduate assistant | |
| Mike Norvell | Memphis | 2016–17 | Inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| Kirby Smart | Georgia | 2018–21 | 2018: outside linebackers coach; 2019–21: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (6)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Gregory | Oregon, 2022: analyst | Boise State, Washington | |
| Kenny Dillingham | Oregon, 2022: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Arizona State | |
| Tosh Lupoi | Oregon, 2022–25: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | California | |
| Trent Figg | Oregon, 2022: offensive assistant | Calvin | |
| Will Stein | Oregon, 2023–25: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Kentucky | |
| Ryan Switzer | Oregon, 2026: offensive analyst | Tulsa |
Other assistants under him (6)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Drew Mehringer | Oregon, 2022–25: co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach; 2026: offensive coordinator | |
| Jordan Somerville | Oregon, 2022: offensive assistant | |
| Junior Adams | Oregon, 2022–24: co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Matt Powledge | Oregon, 2022: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Chris Hampton | Oregon, 2023–25: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach; 2026: defensive coordinator | |
| Jay Johnson | Oregon, 2026: assistant quarterbacks |
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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Georgia | co-defensive coordinator | $1,073,788 | |
| 2020 | Georgia | defensive coordinator | $1,496,147 | |
| 2019 | Georgia | defensive coordinator | $390,025 |
Open Georgia (State of Georgia, unaudited): salary paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Lanning’s teams went for it on 33% of fourth downs and on 54% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 50% of plays and took 26.3 seconds a play, 2022–2026.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 13 g | 33 of 80 41% | 58% | 47% | 25.2 | +0.21 | |
| 2023 14 g | 24 of 71 34% | 54% | 55% | 26.7 | +0.36 | |
| 2024 14 g | 21 of 86 24% | 47% | 51% | 26.3 | +0.18 | |
| 2025 15 g | 32 of 91 35% | 53% | 47% | 27.5 | +0.17 | |
| 2026 6 g | 15 of 48 31% | 61% | 54% | 24.3 | +0.06 | |
| All 62 g | 125 of 376 33% | 54% | 50% | 26.3 | +0.21 |
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.





