Troy Taylor
Troy Taylor went 36–26 as a head coach, 2019–2024, at Sacramento State and Stanford. Share
Three seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2019, 2021–22 at Sacramento State. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 36–26 career
- Seasons
- 5
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Apr 5, 1968
- Alma mater
- California 1994
- Best season
- 2023 3–9
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Sacramento State * | 9–4 | T–1st | NCAA Division I Second Round L | 9 | |
| 2020: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2021 | Sacramento State * | 9–3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Second Round L | 11 | |
| 2022 | Sacramento State * | 12–1 | T–1st | NCAA Division I Quarterfinal L | 4 | |
| 2023 | Stanford | 3–9 | T–9th | |||
| 2024 | Stanford | 3–9 | T–14th | |||
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. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 10 | 1–9 | 10% |
| Against top-10 teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 8 | 0–8 | 0% |
| Conference games | 17 | 4–13 | 24% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 10 | 4–6 | 40% |
| At home | 13 | 2–11 | 15% |
| On the road | 11 | 4–7 | 36% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 23 | 5–18 | 22% |
His own 24 games on file, 2023–2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Californiaseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Notre Dameseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Cal Polyseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Coloradoseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Hawai’iseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Louisvilleseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Syracuseseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Washington Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
How he was hired
- Hired by Stanford for the 2023 season from Sacramento State, where he was head coach.
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Also a player: Troy Taylor’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Casa Roble HS (CA) high school | Offensive coordinator | |
| 1995 | Colorado | Graduate assistant | |
| 1996 | California | Wide receivers coach | |
| 1997–98 | California | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 1999–2000 | California | Tight ends coach | |
| 2000–02 | Christian Brothers HS (CA) high school | Assistant coach | |
| 2002–05 | Folsom HS (CA) high school | Co-head coach | |
| 2012–15 | Folsom HS (CA) high school | Co-head coach | |
| 2016 | Eastern Washington | Co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2017–18 | Utah | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2019–22 | Sacramento State | Head coach | |
| 2023–24 | Stanford | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Rick NeuheiselColorado
- Steve MariucciCalifornia
- Tom HolmoeCalifornia
- Bobby FresquesChristian Brothers HS (CA)
- Beau BaldwinEastern Washington
- Kyle WhittinghamUtah
Assistants who became head coaches
- Andy ThompsonSacramento State
- Bob GregoryBoise State, Washington
Worked under (6)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Neuheisel | Colorado | 1995 | Graduate assistant | |
| Steve Mariucci | California | 1996 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Tom Holmoe | California | 1997–2000 | 1997–98: quarterbacks coach; 1999–2000: tight ends coach | |
| Bobby Fresques | Christian Brothers HS (CA) high school | 2000–02 | Assistant coach | |
| Beau Baldwin | Eastern Washington | 2016 | Co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Kyle Whittingham | Utah | 2017–18 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Thompson | Sacramento State, 2019–22: defensive coordinator | Sacramento State | |
| Bob Gregory | Stanford, 2023–24: special teams coordinator and safeties coach | Boise State, Washington |
Other assistants under him (4)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Bobby Fresques | Sacramento State, 2019–22: quarterbacks coach | |
| Bobby April III | Stanford, 2023–24: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Mark D’Onofrio | Stanford, 2023–24: inside linebackers coach | |
| Nate Byham | Stanford, 2023–24: tight ends 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Utah | offensive coordinator | $360,000 | ||
| 2017 | Utah | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $83,333 | $500,000 USA Today | $593,750 |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Transparent Utah: wages and incentive awards paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it; benefits left out.
Contract pay and the state payroll differ by design: one is the season’s contract, the other what the state paid in a calendar or fiscal year, so a December hire’s short first year, bonuses and camp money paid as special payments, and pay that ran on after he left all show in the payroll.
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
Taylor’s teams went for it on 34% of fourth downs and on 53% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 53% of plays and took 26.6 seconds a play, 2023–2024.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 11 g | 26 of 99 26% | 50% | 57% | 25.9 | 0.00 | |
| 2024 12 g | 41 of 100 41% | 55% | 51% | 27.3 | −0.07 | |
| All 23 g | 67 of 199 34% | 53% | 53% | 26.6 | −0.03 |
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.