The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Jeff Woodruff

Followed Rick Rasnick. Jeff Woodruff held Eastern Michigan at Regional Program IV for 4 seasons.

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2000–2003 · 1 stint

Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Eastern Michigan, 4 seasons

−5.5

Regional Program IV → Regional Program V.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

1–7 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Gary Darnell.

Rivalry record

1–7

12.5% · 2 rivals

One-score games

4–4

50.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Central Michigan1–325%

Western Michigan0–40%

The toughest matchup

vs. Gary Darnell0–4

4 meetings, 2000–2003

’00 L’01 L’02 L’03 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

National Program

0–8 0.0%

Regional Program

6–24 20.0%

Coaching career

2000–2003

Eastern Michigancaretaker

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV

Jeff Woodruff held Eastern Michigan at Regional Program IV for 4 seasons.

7th-best Eastern Michigan tenure of 13 by the numbers.

Followed Rick Rasnick (1995–1999) · succeeded by Jeff Genyk (2004–2008).

1 NFL Draft pick: Kevin Walter (2003)

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