Johnny Griffith

Head coach, Georgia, 1961 to 1963

College career10-16-4

Program liftNo. 1,191tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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.

3-8 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Bear Bryant.

Rivalry record

3-8-1

25.0% · 4 rivals

One-score games

5-5-4

35.7% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

South Carolina2-0-167%

Florida0-30%

Auburn1-233%

Georgia Tech0-30%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bear Bryant0-3

3 meetings, 1961–1963

’61 L’62 L’63 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

Blue Blood

0-2 0.0%

Power Program

4-7 36.4%

National Program

2-5 28.6%

Regional Program

4-2 66.7%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1961-1963) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least3Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 3 — his 1961, 1962, 1963 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 3 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1964	R4.41	Estimated
1964	R5.54	Estimated
1962	R2.26	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.