Dell McGee

Dell McGee went 9–⁠22 as a head coach, 2015–⁠2026, at Georgia Southern and Georgia State. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 4–⁠1); by them his record is 9–⁠21.

Record
9–⁠22 career
Seasons
4
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Born
Sep 7, 1973
Best season
2015 9–⁠4

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1563 in 2015
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2015Georgia Southern interim, bowl game1–⁠0GoDaddy Bowl W
2016–⁠23: not a college head coach
2024Georgia State3–⁠97th
2025Georgia State1–⁠117th
2026Georgia State4–⁠2 (Wikipedia: 4–⁠1)

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 rivals41–⁠3
Conference games182–⁠16
Bowls and playoffs11–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer93–⁠6
At home156–⁠9
On the road152–⁠13
At neutral sites11–⁠0
As our Elo’s favorite85–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog234–⁠19

His own 31 games on file, 2015–⁠2026, 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
Ricky Rahne 2024–⁠20261–⁠2Old Dominion3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Old Dominionseries31–⁠2
James Madisonseries30–⁠3
Vanderbiltseries21–⁠1
Marshallseries20–⁠2
Georgia Southernseries20–⁠2
Coastal Carolinaseries20–⁠2
App Stateseries20–⁠2
Murray Stateseries11–⁠0

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.

Also a player: Dell McGee’s playing career.

Career

YearsTeamJob
2002Harris County HS (GA) high schoolDefensive backs coach
2003–⁠04Greenville HS (GA) high schoolDefensive coordinator
2005–⁠12Carver-Columbus HS (GA) high schoolHead coach
2013AuburnAnalyst
2014Georgia SouthernRunning backs coach
2015Georgia SouthernAssistant head coach and running backs coach
2015Georgia SouthernInterim head coach
2016–⁠18GeorgiaAssistant head coach and running backs coach
2019–⁠23GeorgiaRunning game coordinator and running backs coach
2024–presentGeorgia StateHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Dell McGee

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Gus MalzahnAuburn2013Analyst
Willie FritzGeorgia Southern2014–⁠152014: running backs coach; 2015: assistant head coach and running backs coach
Kirby SmartGeorgia2016–⁠232016–⁠18: assistant head coach and running backs coach; 2019–⁠23: running game coordinator and running backs coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Chad LunsfordGeorgia Southern, 2015: tight ends coachGeorgia Southern, Florida Atlantic
Hue JacksonGeorgia State, 2024: assistant general manager; 2025–⁠26: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachOakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns, Grambling
Jim ChaneyGeorgia State, 2024: offensive coordinator; 2025: offensive analystTennessee
Will HealyGeorgia State, 2024: assistant head coach and running backs coachCharlotte, Austin Peay, East Tennessee State
Travis PearsonGeorgia State, 2025: defensive coordinatorAlabama State
Other assistants under him (8)
CoachWith him
Alex AtkinsGeorgia Southern, 2015: offensive line coach
Brandon BaileyGeorgia Southern, 2015: student assistant
Doug RuseGeorgia Southern, 2015: offensive coordinator
Jack CurtisGeorgia Southern, 2015: defensive coordinator
Dameyune CraigGeorgia State, 2024–⁠26: wide receivers coach
Kevin SherrerGeorgia State, 2024: defensive coordinator
Cam ClarkGeorgia State, 2026: co-defensive coordinator
John HanelineGeorgia State, 2026: co-defensive coordinator

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

McGee’s teams went for it on 30% of fourth downs and on 51% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 56% of plays and took 25.8 seconds a play, 2024–⁠2026.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2024 12 g25 of 96 26%43%58%25.7+0.02
2025 12 g34 of 103 33%59%59%25.1+0.05
2026 6 g11 of 37 30%50%45%27.4+0.14
All 30 g70 of 236 30%51%56%25.8+0.05

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.