Nate Dreiling
Nate Dreiling went 4–8 as a head coach, 2024, at Utah State. Share
- Record
- 4–8 career
- Seasons
- 1
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Oct 27, 1990
- Alma mater
- Pittsburg State 2013
- Best season
- 2024 4–8
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Utah State | 4–8 | T–5th |
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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Conference games | 7 | 3–4 | 43% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 3 | 1–2 | 33% |
| At home | 6 | 3–3 | 50% |
| On the road | 6 | 1–5 | 17% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 5 | 3–2 | 60% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 7 | 1–6 | 14% |
His own 12 games on file, 2024, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Hawai’iseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Robert Morrisseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Wyomingseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| USCseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Boise Stateseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| New Mexicoseries | 1 | 0–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 | Kansas | Graduate assistant | |
| 2017 | Pittsburg State | Safeties coach | |
| 2018–19 | Pittsburg State | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2020 | Oregon | Defensive analyst | |
| 2021 | Southeast Missouri State | Defensive running game coordinator and middle linebackers coach | |
| 2022–23 | New Mexico State | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2024 | Utah State | Interim head coach and defensive coordinator | |
| 2025–present | Oklahoma | Inside linebackers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- David BeatyKansas
- Tim BeckPittsburg State
- Mario CristobalOregon
- Tom MatukewiczSoutheast Missouri State
- Jerry KillNew Mexico State
- Brent VenablesOklahoma
Worked under (6)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Beaty | Kansas | 2015–16 | Graduate assistant | |
| Tim Beck | Pittsburg State | 2017–19 | 2017: safeties coach; 2018–19: defensive coordinator | |
| Mario Cristobal | Oregon | 2020 | Defensive analyst | |
| Tom Matukewicz | Southeast Missouri State | 2021 | Defensive running game coordinator and middle linebackers coach | |
| Jerry Kill | New Mexico State | 2022–23 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Brent Venables | Oklahoma | 2025–26 | Inside linebackers coach |
Coached under him (3)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Bobby McMillen | Utah State, 2024: co-defensive coordinator | |
| Cooper Bassett | Utah State, 2024: co-offensive coordinator | |
| Kyle Cefalo | Utah State, 2024: 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Utah State | head coach | $620,109 |
Transparent Utah: wages and incentive awards paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it; benefits left out.
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
Dreiling’s teams went for it on 28% of fourth downs and on 53% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 54% of plays and took 21.7 seconds a play, in 2024.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 11 g | 26 of 92 28% | 53% | 54% | 21.7 | +0.11 |
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.