# Lyon Scots football

The Lyon Scots football team represents Lyon College in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Scots are members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) after transitioning from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and participating as an independent for a year in 2023. The Scots play their home games at Pioneer Stadium in Batesville, Arkansas.
Their head coach is Chris Douglas, who took over the position for the 2020 season.

## History

On June 27, 2013, Lyon College president, Dr. Donald Weatherman, announced the return of American football as a varsity sport after a 62-year hiatus when they last fielded a team as Arkansas College.

## Conference affiliations

* Central States Football League (2015–2017)
* Sooner Athletic Conference (2018–2022)
* Independent (2023)
* Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (2024–present)

## List of head coaches
### Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

### Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
| 1 | Kirk Kelley | 2015 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| 2 | Kyle Phelps | 2016–2017 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 0.409 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | Casey Creehan | 2018–2019 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0.524 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Chris Douglas | 2020–present | 33 | 7 | 26 | 0 | 0.212 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |

## Year-by-year results

| National Champions | Conference Champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head Coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head Coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head Coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Tie | Finish | Win | Loss | Tie | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Lyon Scots |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 2015 | Kirk Kelley | NAIA | — | CSFL | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7th | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Kyle Phelps | NAIA | — | CSFL | 3 | 8 | 0 | T–4th | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Kyle Phelps | NAIA | — | CSFL | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5th | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Casey Creehan | NAIA | — | SAC | 4 | 7 | 0 | T–7th | 2 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Casey Creehan | NAIA | — | SAC | 7 | 3 | 0 | T–3rd | 6 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2020 | Chris Douglas | NAIA | — | SAC | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7th | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2021 | Chris Douglas | NAIA | — | SAC | 2 | 8 | 0 | T–8th | 2 | 7 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Chris Douglas | NAIA | — | SAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10th | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Chris Douglas | NCAA | Division III | Independent | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | — | — |