Johnny Floyd

Johnny Floyd went 2–⁠9–⁠1 as a head coach in the games on file: 1929 at Auburn (1st season, final 4 games), 1930 at The Citadel and 1931 at The Citadel. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Wikipedia’s season articles record two seasons differently (1930, 4–⁠5–⁠2 and 1931, 5–⁠4–⁠1); by them his record is 9–⁠13–⁠3.

Record
2–⁠9–⁠1 games on file
Seasons
3
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1931 1–⁠2–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1425 in 1931
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1929Auburn 1st season, final 4 games0–⁠4
1930The Citadel1–⁠3 (Wikipedia: 4–⁠5–⁠2)
1931The Citadel1–⁠2–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 5–⁠4–⁠1)

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals61–⁠4–⁠1
Conference games40–⁠4
Decided by 8 points or fewer62–⁠3–⁠1
At home22–⁠0
On the road100–⁠9–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog122–⁠9–⁠1

His own 12 games on file, 1929–⁠1931, 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
Clemsonseries21–⁠1
VMIseries21–⁠0–⁠1
Davidsonseries20–⁠2
South Carolinaseries20–⁠2
Georgia Techseries10–⁠1
Georgiaseries10–⁠1
Tennesseeseries10–⁠1
Tulaneseries10–⁠1

Coaching tree

Johnny Floyd

Assistants who became head coaches

  • Red FloydMiddle Tennessee, Auburn, The Citadel
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Red FloydAuburn, 1929: line coachMiddle Tennessee, Auburn, The Citadel

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.