Rod Chance - Football Coach - Oregon State University Athletics

Rod Chance

Title:
Co-Defensive Coordinator/Secondary Coach

Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Education: Rhode Island, 2005 - communication studies

NOTABLES
6 bowl games and FCS playoff appearances as a coach
131 games coached during his career
4 NFL Draft selections in 2021 while serving as cornerbacks coach at Oregon
11 Career interceptions at Rhode Island
10 No. 10 ranking to end the 2019 season at Minnesota, the Golden Gophers best since 1962

OREGON STATE (2024-Present)
• Added the title of co-defensive coordinator prior to the start of 2025 spring practices
• Appointed the Beavers’ secondary coach during 2024 spring practices
• Skyler Thomas led Beavers with 81 tackles in first year back after missing all of 2023 season
• OSU defense tallied 41 pass breakups in 2024; Thomas led with nine

COLORADO (2022)
• Cornerbacks coach
• Defense totaled six interceptions and 33 total passes defended

OREGON (2020-21)
• Served as Oregon’s cornerbacks coach
• Helped lead Oregon to a 2021 Fiesta Bowl berth and 2020 appearance in the Alamo Bowl
• Ducks went 14-7 during his tenure
• Oregon won the Pac-12 in 2020 and took the North Division crown in 2021
• Three defensive backs selected in 2021 NFL Draft: Deommodore Lenoir, Thomas Graham Jr., Jevon Holland and Brady Breeze
• Mykael Wright named first-team all-league in 2020, leading the Pac-12 with nine pass defended. Lenoir named second team
• Ducks led the Pac-12 with 33 passes defended in 202

MINNESOTA (2019)
• Cornerbacks coach for the Golden Gophers
• Minnesota finished ninth nationally against the pass, up from 51 a year before
• Gophers ended the season 11-2 and defeated Auburn in the Outback Bowl
• Minnesota ended the year ranked 10th, its highest ranking to end a season since 1962
• Coney Durr and Benjamin St-Juste earned honorable mention All-Big Ten honors
• Defense tied for 10th nationally in passing touchdowns allowed (14), tied for eighth fewest 20-yard pass plays allowed (30) and tied for 17th with 14 interceptions

OREGON (2018)
• Defensive analyst working with the team’s secondary
• Ducks’ defense led the Pac-12 with 88 passes defended, one shy of tying for the nation’s lead
• Thomas Graham Jr. defended 21 passes, while Deommodore Lenoir totaled 12. Four of the top-11 players in the Pac-12 were Ducks

SOUTHERN UTAH (2016-17)
• Southern Utah’s defensive coordinator
• Chance’s defensive unit finished third in the Big Sky in scoring defense in 2013, and forced 29 turnovers. Fourteen of the 29 were interceptions
• Helped lead SUU to a 9-3 record and league title in 2017
• Eleven different players earned all-conference honors during his tenure
• Jalen Russell named a Freshman All-American in 2017

VANDERBILT (2013-15)
• Served as quality control for three seasons. Spent 2013 season on offense and 2014 and 2015 on defense

RHODE ISLAND (2013)
• Cornerbacks coach for his alma mater during spring practices

ALPHARETTA HIGH SCHOOL (2009-12)
• Offensive and defensive coordinator
• Also served as the head track coach and assistant boys basketball coach
• Following the 2012 season, 12 players from Alpharetta signed letters-of-intent with Division I programs
• Special education teacher in math and science

PLAYING EXPERIENCE
• Letterwinner for Rhode Island from 2002-05
• Four-year starter
• Finished his career with 108 tackles, 11 interceptions and nine pass deflections
• Team captain as a senior. Voted URI’s Defensive Back of the Year that season

BOWL GAMES/FCS PLAYOFFS
2021   Fiesta Bowl
2020   Alamo Bowl
2019   Outback Bowl
2018   Redbox Bowl (analyst)
2017   FCS Playoffs
2013   BBVA Compass Bowl