Jeff Woodruff

Jeff Woodruff went 9–⁠34 as a head coach, 2000–⁠2003, at Eastern Michigan.

Record
9–⁠34 career
Seasons
4
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2000 3–⁠8

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1316 in 2000
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2000Eastern Michigan3–⁠85th (West)
2001Eastern Michigan2–⁠96th (West)
2002Eastern Michigan3–⁠97th (West)
2003Eastern Michigan coached nine of 12 games1–⁠86th (West)

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 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals81–⁠7
Conference games274–⁠23
Decided by 8 points or fewer138–⁠5
At home229–⁠13
On the road210–⁠21
As our Elo’s favorite128–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog311–⁠30

His own 43 games on file, 2000–⁠2003, 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
Mike DeBord 2000–⁠20031–⁠3Central Michigan4
Gary Darnell 2000–⁠20030–⁠4Western Michigan4
Joe Novak 2000–⁠20021–⁠2Northern Illinois3
Lee Owens 2001–⁠20031–⁠2Akron3
Bill Lynch 2000–⁠20020–⁠3Ball State3
Ralph Friedgen 2001–⁠20030–⁠3Maryland3
Tom Amstutz 2001–⁠20030–⁠3Toledo3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Central Michiganseries41–⁠3
Toledoseries40–⁠4
Western Michiganseries40–⁠4
Akronseries31–⁠2
Northern Illinoisseries31–⁠2
Marylandseries30–⁠3
Bowling Greenseries30–⁠3
Ball Stateseries30–⁠3

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
1979Kent StateGraduate assistant
1980–⁠82WashingtonGraduate assistant
1983NevadaDefensive backs coach
1984–⁠91WashingtonQuarterbacks coach
1992–⁠93WashingtonOffensive coordinator
1996–⁠97Cholla HS (AZ) high schoolHead coach
1998–⁠99ArizonaRunning backs coach
2000–⁠03Eastern MichiganHead coach
2004–⁠06UTEPTight ends coach
2007–⁠11UTEPAssistant head coach and tight ends coach
2012–⁠13Oaks Christian School (CA) high schoolHead coach
2015–presentAndress HS (TX) high schoolHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Jeff Woodruff

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (6)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Ron BlackledgeKent State1979Graduate assistant
Don JamesWashington1980–⁠921980–⁠82: graduate assistant; 1984–⁠91: quarterbacks coach; 1992: offensive coordinator
Chris AultNevada1983Defensive backs coach
Jim LambrightWashington1993Offensive coordinator
Dick TomeyArizona1998–⁠99Running backs coach
Mike PriceUTEP2004–⁠112004–⁠06: tight ends coach; 2007–⁠11: assistant head coach and tight ends coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pete AlamarEastern Michigan, 2000: offensive coordinator and offensive line coach; 2001–⁠02: offensive coordinator and tight ends coachRice
Bob DiacoEastern Michigan, 2001: running backs and special teams coach; 2002: linebackers and special teams coach; 2003: outside linebackers and special teams coachUConn
Charley MolnarEastern Michigan, 2002: quarterbacks coachMassachusetts
Mike JacobsEastern Michigan, 2002–⁠03: graduate assistantToledo, Notre Dame (OH), Lenoir Rhyne, Mercer
Tim RoseEastern Michigan, 2003: defensive coordinatorMiami (OH)
Other assistants under him (3)
CoachWith him
William HarrisEastern Michigan, 2000: defensive coordinator
Kevin WolthausenEastern Michigan, 2002: outside linebackers coach
Tim SalemEastern Michigan, 2003: offensive 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.