
Stan Drayton
Stan Drayton went 9–25 as a head coach, 2022–2024, at Temple. Share
- Record
- 9–25 career
- Seasons
- 3
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Mar 11, 1971
- Alma mater
- Allegheny
- Best season
- 2024 3–9
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Temple | 3–9 | 10th | |||
| 2023 | Temple | 3–9 | T–13th | |||
| 2024 | Temple coached 10 of 12 games | 3–7 |
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 | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Conference games | 22 | 4–18 | 18% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 8 | 2–6 | 25% |
| At home | 19 | 9–10 | 47% |
| On the road | 15 | 0–15 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 7 | 7–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 27 | 2–25 | 7% |
His own 34 games on file, 2022–2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tulsaseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| Navyseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| South Floridaseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| East Carolinaseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Rutgersseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Memphisseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Massachusettsseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Lafayetteseries | 1 | 1–0 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Florida’s 2006 staff (running backs) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Ohio State’s 2014 staff (running backs coach (assistant head coach for offense)) · 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.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Allegheny | Running backs coach | |
| 1994 | Eastern Michigan | Running backs coach | |
| 1995 | Penn | Running backs coach | |
| 1996–99 | Villanova | Running backs coach | |
| 2000 | Bowling Green | Running backs coach | |
| 2001–03 | Green Bay Packers NFL | Offensive quality control coach and special teams coach | |
| 2004 | Mississippi State | Running backs coach | |
| 2005–07 | Florida | Running backs coach | |
| 2008 | Tennessee | Running backs coach | |
| 2009 | Syracuse | Running backs coach | |
| 2010 | Florida | Running backs coach | |
| 2011 | Ohio State | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2012–14 | Ohio State | Running backs coach | |
| 2015–16 | Chicago Bears NFL | Running backs coach | |
| 2017–21 | Texas | Assistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator | |
| 2022–24 | Temple | Head coach | |
| 2025 | Penn State | Running backs coach | |
| 2026–present | South Carolina | Running backs coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Ken O’KeefeAllegheny
- Ron CooperEastern Michigan
- Gary BlackneyBowling Green
- Mike ShermanGreen Bay Packers
- Sylvester CroomMississippi State
- Urban MeyerFlorida, Ohio State
- Phillip FulmerTennessee
- Doug MarroneSyracuse
- Luke FickellOhio State
- John FoxChicago Bears
- Tom HermanTexas
- Steve SarkisianTexas
- and 3 more
Assistants who became head coaches
- Chris WoodsTexas State, Mansfield, Stonehill
- Everett WithersNorth Carolina, Texas State, Temple, James Madison
Worked under (15)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken O’Keefe | Allegheny | 1993 | Running backs coach | |
| Ron Cooper | Eastern Michigan | 1994 | Running backs coach | |
| Gary Blackney | Bowling Green | 2000 | Running backs coach | |
| Mike Sherman | Green Bay Packers NFL | 2001–03 | Offensive quality control coach and special teams coach | |
| Sylvester Croom | Mississippi State | 2004 | Running backs coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Florida | 2005–10 | Running backs coach | |
| Phillip Fulmer | Tennessee | 2008 | Running backs coach | |
| Doug Marrone | Syracuse | 2009 | Running backs coach | |
| Luke Fickell | Ohio State | 2011 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Ohio State | 2012–14 | Running backs coach | |
| John Fox | Chicago Bears NFL | 2015–16 | Running backs coach | |
| Tom Herman | Texas | 2017–20 | Assistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator | |
| Steve Sarkisian | Texas | 2021 | Assistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator | |
| James Franklin | Penn State | 2025 | Running backs coach | |
| Terry Smith | Penn State | 2025 | Running backs coach | |
| Shane Beamer | South Carolina | 2026 | Running backs coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Woods | Temple, 2022–24: linebackers coach | Texas State, Mansfield, Stonehill | |
| Everett Withers | Temple, 2022: assistant head coach; 2023–24: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | North Carolina, Texas State, Temple, James Madison |
Other assistants under him (2)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| D. J. Eliot | Temple, 2022: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Danny Langsdorf | Temple, 2022–24: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
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
Drayton’s teams went for it on 31% of fourth downs and on 47% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 60% of plays and took 24.8 seconds a play, 2022–2024.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 11 g | 29 of 95 31% | 45% | 60% | 24.0 | −0.06 | |
| 2023 12 g | 43 of 97 44% | 64% | 63% | 23.9 | −0.01 | |
| 2024 12 g | 22 of 116 19% | 32% | 57% | 26.4 | −0.12 | |
| All 35 g | 94 of 308 31% | 47% | 60% | 24.8 | −0.06 |
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.