# East Texas Baptist Tigers football

The East Texas Baptist Tigers football team represents East Texas Baptist University in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Tigers are members of the American Southwest Conference (ASC), fielding its team in the ASC since 2000. The Tigers play their home games at Ornelas Stadium in Marshall, Texas.
Their head coach is Calvin Ruzicka, who took over the position for the 2023 season.

## Conference affiliations

* Independent (1924; 1926; 1934–1938; 1947–1950)
* American Southwest Conference (2000–present)

## Championships
### Conference championships

East Texas Baptist claims 2 conference titles, the most recent of which came in 2015.
| Year | Conference | Overall Record | Conference Record | Coach |
| 2003† | American Southwest Conference | 9–3 | 8–1 | Ralph Harris |
| 2015† | American Southwest Conference | 7–3 | 4–1 | Joshua Eargle |
† Co-champions

## NCAA Division III playoff games

The Tigers have appeared in the Division III playoffs one time with an overall record of 1–1.
| Season | Coach | Playoff | Opponent | Result |
| 2003 | Ralph Harris | First round Second round | Trinity (TX) Lycoming | W 42–41 L 7–13 |

## 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 | unknown | 1924; 1926; 1934–1938; 1947–1950 | 93 | 33 | 54 | 6 | 0.387 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Ralph Harris | 2000–2006 | 72 | 35 | 37 | 0 | 0.486 | 32 | 30 | 0 | 0.516 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | – | – |
| 3 | Mark Sartain | 2007–2012 | 60 | 26 | 34 | 0 | 0.433 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0.489 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Joshua Eargle | 2013–2015 | 30 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 0.467 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0.375 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | ASC Coach of the Year (2015) |
| 5 | Scotty Walden | 2016 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0.700 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | Scott Highsmith | 2017 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0.700 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | Brian Mayper | 2018–2022 | 45 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 0.556 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 0.590 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Calvin Ruzicka | 2023–present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.489 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.489 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |

## 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 |
| East Texas Baptist Tigers |||||||||||||||
| 1924 | 1924 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 3 | 2 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| No team in 1925 |||||||||||||||
| 1926 | 1926 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 3 | 4 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| No team from 1927–1933 |||||||||||||||
| 1934 | 1934 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 4 | 4 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1935 | 1935 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 8 | 2 | 2 | | | | | — | — |
| 1936 | 1936 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 1 | 4 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1937 | 1937 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 3 | 6 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1938 | 1938 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 2 | 5 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| No team from 1939–1946 |||||||||||||||
| 1947 | 1947 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 0 | 8 | 2 | | | | | — | — |
| 1948 | 1948 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 3 | 7 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1949 | 1949 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 4 | 5 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1950 | 1950 | unknown | NCAA | — | — | 2 | 7 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| No team from 1951–1999 |||||||||||||||
| 2000 | 2000 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 2 | 8 | 0 | T–9th | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2001 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5th | 4 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2002 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2003 | 2003 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1st | 8 | 1 | 0 | L NCAA Division III Second Round | 14 |
| 2004 | 2004 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 4 | 6 | 0 | T–5th | 4 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2005 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2006 | Ralph Harris | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 7 | 0 | T–5th | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2007 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 5 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2008 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | T–3rd | 5 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2009 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6th | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2010 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | T–4th | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2011 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | T–4th | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2012 | Mark Sartain | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 7 | 0 | T–5th | 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2013 | Joshua Eargle | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 7 | 0 | T–6th | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Joshua Eargle | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 4 | 6 | 0 | T–4th | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Joshua Eargle | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1st | 4 | 1 | 0 | ASC tri-champion | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Scotty Walden | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4th | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Scott Highsmith | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Brian Mayper | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 6 | 4 | 0 | T–3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Brian Mayper | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2020–21 | 2020–21 | Brian Mayper | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3rd | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2021 | Brian Mayper | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | T–5th | 4 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Brian Mayper | NCAA | Division III | ASC | 5 | 5 | 0 | T–4th | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Calvin Ruzicka | NCAA | Division III | ASC | | | | | | | | — | — |