Dan Lanning, head coach at Oregon
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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.

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

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1821 in 2025
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2022Oregon10–⁠3T–2ndHoliday Bowl W15
2023Oregon12–⁠22ndFiesta Bowl W6
2024Oregon13–⁠11stRose Bowl, CFP Quarterfinal L3
2025Oregon13–⁠23rdCFP First Round W; Orange Bowl, CFP Quarterfinal W; Peach Bowl, CFP Semifinal L4
2026Oregon4–⁠2 (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

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 gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams2415–⁠9
Against top-10 teams126–⁠6
Against rivals1410–⁠4
Conference games3934–⁠5
Bowls and playoffs64–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer1812–⁠6
At home3229–⁠3
On the road2219–⁠3
At neutral sites84–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite5547–⁠8
As our Elo’s underdog75–⁠2

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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Jedd Fisch 2022–⁠20253–⁠0Arizona, Washington3
Lincoln Riley 2023–⁠20263–⁠0USC3
Jonathan Smith 2022–⁠20242–⁠1Oregon State, Michigan State3
Kalen DeBoer 2022–⁠20230–⁠3Washington3

Dan Lanning’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Washingtonseries52–⁠3
Oregon Stateseries43–⁠1
USCseries33–⁠0
UCLAseries32–⁠1
Stanfordseries22–⁠0
Californiaseries22–⁠0
Coloradoseries22–⁠0
Boise Stateseries22–⁠0

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

  • Hired by Oregon for the 2022 season from Georgia, where he was defensive coordinator.

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

YearsTeamJob
2008–⁠10Park Hill South HS (MO) high schoolSpecial teams, defensive backs and wide receivers coach
2011PittsburghGraduate assistant
2012Arizona StateGraduate assistant
2013Arizona StateRecruiting coordinator
2014Sam Houston StateDefensive backs coach and co-recruiting coordinator
2015AlabamaGraduate assistant
2016–⁠17MemphisInside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator
2018GeorgiaOutside linebackers coach
2019–⁠21GeorgiaDefensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach
2022–presentOregonHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Dan Lanning

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (6)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Todd GrahamPittsburgh2011Graduate assistant
Keith PattersonPittsburgh2011Graduate assistant
Todd GrahamArizona State2012–⁠132012: graduate assistant; 2013: recruiting coordinator
K.C. KeelerSam Houston2014Defensive backs coach and co-recruiting coordinator
Nick SabanAlabama2015Graduate assistant
Mike NorvellMemphis2016–⁠17Inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator
Kirby SmartGeorgia2018–⁠212018: outside linebackers coach; 2019–⁠21: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (6)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bob GregoryOregon, 2022: analystBoise State, Washington
Kenny DillinghamOregon, 2022: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachArizona State
Tosh LupoiOregon, 2022–⁠25: defensive coordinator and linebackers coachCalifornia
Trent FiggOregon, 2022: offensive assistantCalvin
Will SteinOregon, 2023–⁠25: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachKentucky
Ryan SwitzerOregon, 2026: offensive analystTulsa
Other assistants under him (6)
CoachWith him
Drew MehringerOregon, 2022–⁠25: co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach; 2026: offensive coordinator
Jordan SomervilleOregon, 2022: offensive assistant
Junior AdamsOregon, 2022–⁠24: co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach
Matt PowledgeOregon, 2022: co-defensive coordinator
Chris HamptonOregon, 2023–⁠25: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach; 2026: defensive coordinator
Jay JohnsonOregon, 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

YearSchoolJobState payroll
2021Georgiaco-defensive coordinator$1,073,788
2020Georgiadefensive coordinator$1,496,147
2019Georgiadefensive 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.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2022 13 g33 of 80 41%58%47%25.2+0.21
2023 14 g24 of 71 34%54%55%26.7+0.36
2024 14 g21 of 86 24%47%51%26.3+0.18
2025 15 g32 of 91 35%53%47%27.5+0.17
2026 6 g15 of 48 31%61%54%24.3+0.06
All 62 g125 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.