Stan Drayton, head coach at Temple
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Stan Drayton

Stan Drayton went 9–⁠25 as a head coach, 2022–⁠2024, at Temple.

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

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1320 in 2022
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2022Temple3–⁠910th
2023Temple3–⁠9T–13th
2024Temple coached 10 of 12 games3–⁠7

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 gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams30–⁠3
Against rivals20–⁠2
Conference games224–⁠18
Decided by 8 points or fewer82–⁠6
At home199–⁠10
On the road150–⁠15
As our Elo’s favorite77–⁠0
As our Elo’s underdog272–⁠25

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

OpponentGamesRecord
Tulsaseries31–⁠2
Navyseries31–⁠2
South Floridaseries21–⁠1
East Carolinaseries20–⁠2
Rutgersseries20–⁠2
Memphisseries20–⁠2
Massachusettsseries11–⁠0
Lafayetteseries11–⁠0

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.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1993AlleghenyRunning backs coach
1994Eastern MichiganRunning backs coach
1995PennRunning backs coach
1996–⁠99VillanovaRunning backs coach
2000Bowling GreenRunning backs coach
2001–⁠03Green Bay Packers NFLOffensive quality control coach and special teams coach
2004Mississippi StateRunning backs coach
2005–⁠07FloridaRunning backs coach
2008TennesseeRunning backs coach
2009SyracuseRunning backs coach
2010FloridaRunning backs coach
2011Ohio StateWide receivers coach
2012–⁠14Ohio StateRunning backs coach
2015–⁠16Chicago Bears NFLRunning backs coach
2017–⁠21TexasAssistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator
2022–⁠24TempleHead coach
2025Penn StateRunning backs coach
2026–presentSouth CarolinaRunning backs coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Stan Drayton

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (15)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Ken O’KeefeAllegheny1993Running backs coach
Ron CooperEastern Michigan1994Running backs coach
Gary BlackneyBowling Green2000Running backs coach
Mike ShermanGreen Bay Packers NFL2001–⁠03Offensive quality control coach and special teams coach
Sylvester CroomMississippi State2004Running backs coach
Urban MeyerFlorida2005–⁠10Running backs coach
Phillip FulmerTennessee2008Running backs coach
Doug MarroneSyracuse2009Running backs coach
Luke FickellOhio State2011Wide receivers coach
Urban MeyerOhio State2012–⁠14Running backs coach
John FoxChicago Bears NFL2015–⁠16Running backs coach
Tom HermanTexas2017–⁠20Assistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator
Steve SarkisianTexas2021Assistant head coach, running backs coach and running game coordinator
James FranklinPenn State2025Running backs coach
Terry SmithPenn State2025Running backs coach
Shane BeamerSouth Carolina2026Running backs coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Chris WoodsTemple, 2022–⁠24: linebackers coachTexas State, Mansfield, Stonehill
Everett WithersTemple, 2022: assistant head coach; 2023–⁠24: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coachNorth Carolina, Texas State, Temple, James Madison
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
D. J. EliotTemple, 2022: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach
Danny LangsdorfTemple, 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.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2022 11 g29 of 95 31%45%60%24.0−0.06
2023 12 g43 of 97 44%64%63%23.9−0.01
2024 12 g22 of 116 19%32%57%26.4−0.12
All 35 g94 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.