Chris Oliver (American football)

{{Short description|American football player and coach}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

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| coach_years1 = 2001–2002

| coach_team1 = Ohio State (SA)

| coach_years2 = 2003–2005

| coach_team2 = Ohio Dominican (OL)

| coach_years3 = 2006-2008

| coach_team3 = Ohio Dominican (OC)

| coach_years4 = 2009–2021

| coach_team4 = Lindsey Wilson

| coach_years5 = 2022–2024

| coach_team5 = Georgetown (KY)

| overall_record = 131–42

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record = 14–8 (NAIA playoffs)

| championships = 1 NAIA (2020)
1 MSC East Division (2014)
4 MSC Bluegrass Division (2017, 2019–2021)
2 MSC (2023–2024)

| awards = NAIA AFCA Coach of the Year Award (2020)

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Chris Oliver is an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Georgetown College from 2022 to 2024.{{cite news |last=Story |first=Mark |title=Georgetown College makes head-coaching hire that rocks Kentucky college football |url=https://www.kentucky.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mark-story/article256581756.html |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |location=Lexington, Kentucky |date=December 14, 2021 |access-date=December 14, 2021 }}{{Cite news |date=December 10, 2024 |title=John Perin elevated to Head Football Coach |url=https://georgetowncollegeathletics.com/sports/fball/2024-25/releases/John_Perin_elevated_to_Head_Football_Coach |access-date=December 10, 2024 |work=Georgetown College}} Oliver was the head football coach at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky from the inception of the school's football program, which began play in 2010, through the 2021 season.{{cite news |author= |title=Lindsey Wilson names Oliver head coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87415463/the-courier-journal/ |newspaper=The Courier-Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |date=January 8, 2009 |page=C2 |access-date=October 19, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Oliver led the Lindsey Wilson Blue Raiders to the NAIA Football National Championship in the spring of 2021.{{cite news |last=Story |first=Mark |title='Feels like a movie': Lindsey Wilson's Chris Oliver basking in national title glow |url=https://www.kentucky.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mark-story/article251575803.html |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |location=Lexington, Kentucky |date=May 23, 2021 |access-date=October 19, 2021 }}

Head coaching record

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Lindsey Wilson Blue Raiders

| conf = Mid-South Conference

| startyear = 2010

| endyear = 2021

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2010

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 5–6

| conference = 4–2

| confstanding = 3rd (East)

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| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2011

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 7–3

| conference = 3–2

| confstanding = T–2nd (East)

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| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

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| year = 2012

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 3–8

| conference = 1–5

| confstanding = 6th (West)

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| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2013

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 8–3

| conference = 3–3

| confstanding = T–3rd (East)

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| ranking = 19

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = division

| year = 2014

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 10–3

| conference = 6–0

| confstanding = 1st (East)

| bowlname = NAIA Quarterfinal

| bowloutcome = L

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| ranking = 7

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2015

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 8–3

| conference = 3–2

| confstanding = 3rd (West)

| bowlname = NAIA First Round

| bowloutcome = L

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| ranking = 13

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2016

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 11–2

| conference = 4–1

| confstanding = 2nd (West)

| bowlname = NAIA Quarterfinal

| bowloutcome = L

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| ranking = 8

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = division

| year = 2017

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 11–1

| conference = 6–0

| confstanding = 1st (Bluegrass)

| bowlname = NAIA Quarterfinal

| bowloutcome = L

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 5

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2018

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 7–3

| conference = 4–2

| confstanding = T–2nd (Bluegrass)

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| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 18

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = division

| year = 2019

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 12–1

| conference = 7–0

| confstanding = 1st (Bluegrass)

| bowlname = NAIA Semifinal

| bowloutcome = L

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 4

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| year = 2020

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 11–0

| conference = 7–0

| confstanding = 1st (Bluegrass)

| bowlname = NAIA Championship

| bowloutcome = W

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 1

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2021

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 12–1

| conference = 7–0

| confstanding = 1st (Bluegrass)

| bowlname = NAIA Semifinal

| bowloutcome = L

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| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Lindsey Wilson

| overall = 105–34

| confrecord = 55–17

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Georgetown Tigers

| conf = Mid-South Conference

| startyear = 2022

| endyear =

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 2022

| name = Georgetown

| overall = 7–3

| conference = 5–3

| confstanding = 3rd

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| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 2023

| name = Georgetown

| overall = 10–2

| conference = 6–0

| confstanding = 1st

| bowlname = NAIA Semifinal

| bowloutcome = L

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 4

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 2024

| name = Georgetown

| overall = 9–3

| conference = 6–0

| confstanding = 1st

| bowlname = NAIA Quarterfinal

| bowloutcome = L

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = 11

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Georgetown

| overall = 26–8

| confrecord = 14–3

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 131–42

| bowls = no

| poll =

| polltype = Rankings from final NAIA Coaches' Poll

}}

References

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