# Tiffin Dragons football

The Tiffin Dragons football team represents Tiffin University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Dragons are members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), fielding its team in the G-MAC since 2008. The Dragons play their home games at Frost–Kalnow Stadium in Tiffin, Ohio.
The team's head coach is Brett Ekkens, who took over the position for the 2024 season.

## Conference affiliations

* NAIA independent (1986–1993)
* Mid-States Football Association (1994–2002)
* NCAA Division II independent (2003–2005)
* Great Lakes Football Conference (2006–2007)
* Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (2008–2017)
* Great Midwest Athletic Conference (2018–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, and championships :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | CC |
| 1 | Roger Kirkhart | 1986–1989 | 40 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 0.175 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Bob Wolfe | 1990–1997 | 83 | 35 | 47 | 1 | 0.428 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0.300 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – |
| 3 | Cam Cruickshank | 1998–2002 | 53 | 19 | 34 | 0 | 0.358 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0.417 | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Nate Cole | 2003–2007 | 55 | 36 | 19 | 0 | 0.655 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0.900 | – | – | – | 2 |
| 5 | Dave Walkowsky | 2008–2010 | 32 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 0.063 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 0.032 | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | Gary Goff | 2011–2018 | 88 | 38 | 50 | 0 | 0.432 | 29 | 47 | 0 | 0.382 | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | Cris Reisert | 2019–2023 | 48 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 0.744 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0.852 | 0 | 1 | – | 2 |
| 8 | Brett Ekkens | 2024–present | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0.667 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0.778 | – | – | – | – |

## Year-by-year results since 1986

| 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 |
| Tiffin Dragons |||||||||||||||
| 1986 | 1986 | Roger Kirkhart | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 2 | 8 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1987 | 1987 | Roger Kirkhart | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 1 | 9 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1988 | 1988 | Roger Kirkhart | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 2 | 8 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1989 | 1989 | Roger Kirkhart | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 2 | 8 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1990 | 1990 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 1 | 8 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1991 | 1991 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 4 | 6 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1992 | 1992 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 4 | 6 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1993 | 1993 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | Independent | 8 | 2 | 1 | | | | | L NAIA Division II Quarterfinal | 7 |
| 1994 | 1994 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | MSFA | 8 | 4 | 0 | T–2nd (Mideast) | 2 | 2 | 0 | L NAIA Division II Quarterfinal | 16 |
| 1995 | 1995 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | MSFA | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4th (Mideast) | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1996 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | Division II | MSFA | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5th (Mideast) | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1997 | Bob Wolfe | NAIA | — | MSFA | 4 | 7 | 0 | 6th (Mideast) | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1998 | Cam Cruickshank | NAIA | — | MSFA | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4th (Mideast) | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1999 | Cam Cruickshank | NAIA | — | MSFA | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5th (Mideast) | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2000 | Cam Cruickshank | NAIA | — | MSFA | 3 | 7 | 0 | T–5th (Mideast) | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2001 | Cam Cruickshank | NAIA | — | MSFA | 3 | 8 | 0 | 4th (Mideast) | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2002 | Cam Cruickshank | NAIA | — | MSFA | 2 | 8 | 0 | N/A | | | | — | — |
| 2003 | 2003 | Nate Cole | NCAA | Division II | Independent | 6 | 5 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 2004 | 2004 | Nate Cole | NCAA | Division II | Independent | 5 | 6 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 2005 | 2005 | Nate Cole | NCAA | Division II | Independent | 6 | 5 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 2006 | 2006 | Nate Cole | NCAA | Division II | GLFC | 10 | 1 | 0 | T–1st | 4 | 1 | 0 | Conference Champions | 22 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Nate Cole | NCAA | Division II | GLFC | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1st | 5 | 0 | 0 | Conference Champions | — |
| 2008 | 2008 | Dave Walkowsky | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 1 | 9 | 0 | T–11th | 1 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2009 | Dave Walkowsky | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 0 | 11 | 0 | T–11th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2010 | Dave Walkowsky | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 1 | 10 | 0 | 7th (South) | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2011 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7th (South) | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2012 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 3 | 8 | 0 | T–5th (South) | 2 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2013 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 2 | 9 | 0 | T–6th (South) | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 5 | 6 | 0 | T–7th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 5 | 6 | 0 | T–10th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4th | 7 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | GLIAC | 6 | 5 | 0 | T–4th | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Gary Goff | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 9 | 2 | 0 | T–2nd | 6 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Cris Reisert | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1st | 7 | 0 | 0 | L NCAA Division II First Round | 23 |
| 2020–21 | 2020 | Cris Reisert | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1st | 5 | 0 | 0 | Conference Champions | — |
| 2021 | 2021 | Cris Reisert | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 8 | 3 | 0 | T–2nd | 5 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Cris Reisert | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 6 | 5 | 0 | T–2nd | 6 | 2 | 0 | L America's Crossroads | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Cris Reisert | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1st | 9 | 0 | 0 | L NCAA Division II Second Round | 14 |
| 2024 | 2024 | Brett Ekkens | NCAA | Division II | G-MAC | 8 | 4 | 0 | T–2nd | 7 | 2 | 0 | L America's Crossroads | — |