Take control of a college football program. Recruit players, manage your roster, and make strategic decisions that shape your season.
Gridiron Coaching is a college football strategy and simulation game where every decision matters.
Take control of a program and guide it through each season by managing recruiting, roster decisions, and long-term strategy. Evaluate prospects, allocate recruiting resources, and see how your choices shape the future of your team.
Whether you focus on building through recruiting, managing depth and development, or balancing short-term success with long-term growth, Gridiron Coaching puts you in charge of the program.
Features:
• College football coaching simulation
• Recruit and manage players
• Multiple coaching careers and save slots
• Offline gameplay supported
• Strategic, decision-driven progression
• Clean, intuitive interface built for mobile
This game is designed for fans who enjoy thoughtful strategy and season-to-season decision making rather than arcade-style gameplay.
Disclaimer:
Gridiron Coaching is an independent simulation game and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NCAA or any university, conference, team, or athletic organization.
First of all, the base idea of this game is very fun. Also, the game itself usually doesn’t pose any issues. However, there are a few things in the game that need improvements.Retirement - After pressing the retire button, you can’t do anything else. The buttons to return home or view achievements don’t work. So you can’t actually retire ever.Transfer Portal - When suggesting players to enter the portal, you should be able to view your roster and depth chart to really see who should go. It’s hard to determine just based off of rating and year. When trying to sign players out of the portal, sometimes the money amount won’t actually load the first try to you have to retry putting the amount in. Just a small bug.Auto Recruitment - When you turn on the auto recruitment mode, sometimes it will literally just recruit 17 TEs or 12 RBs, which is unrealistic and unreasonable. There should be more settings to fine tune this feature. Coach Points - Maxing out the coach points is very easy. The upgrades should either cost more, or getting the points is a slower process. Also, there could just be more upgrades in general.
A couple things here and there
Groovatron3000
I think it’s one of the better coaching games out there but just a couple things need to improve1. You can’t see your roster during the transfer period and it’s just kinda annoying 2. An easier way to distributes points like being able to input a clue instead of a slide bar3. Recurring is a bit easy especially if your trying to rebuild from last to first someone like Kent state probably shouldn’t be able to get a 5 star early on4. I feel like facilities should be able to improve through the more you win5. It’s a bit hard to change conferences because it won’t let you see them all6. Feel like you give players attitudes or something so that you know which ones will transfer at the end of the season7. Feel like there should be a all conference or all American slide at the end of the season 8. Sometimes the bottom nav bar glitches out and ends up covering things like at the end of the season you can access the recap easilyOverall though I think it’s a great game and I really enjoy it, keep it up
can’t create account or login
BeastMode36
I’ve been trying to play this game for two weeks now. Each time I go to sign up, it takes forever just to tell me “Sign up failed. This email has already been used.” Then I try to login and it says something like “Action failed. Your previous action may have gone through, please wait.” Yet still nothing. The game itself is fun (apparently doesn’t need an account just to play)! I just wish I could create an account. Hopefully they get the servers fixed soon, because this is a super immersive coaching game.
Developer Response
DM me on X and so I can get more info on this and help get it fixed! The reason you can sign up and login in, is because the servers are down. But, you should still be able to play as a guest.
Really love the game but…
UnKnown862
This is one of the best mobile sim games out there the potential is massive! Great work!!I ran into a few bugs/issuss, the first one is I can’t sign up for an account but others have also mentioned that. Additionally, none of my progress saved. I’m not sure if that’s because I dont have an account or not though. Two minor bugs I found is that my screen will freeze when I’m in the depth chart screen and also I can’t redshirt/edif the bottom player at a position when I’m in the roster screen because the little clock and pen icons in the bottom right are covered by the menu
Developer Response
Really appreciate the feedback 🙌 and glad you’re enjoying it despite the issues.Quick updates:Account signup issues were due to server overload — fixes are being rolled out nowProgress not saving is tied to that, and should be working much more reliably after the latest updatesThe depth chart freeze and roster UI overlap are both known bugs and currently being fixed.If you update the app and still run into anything, let me know — I’m actively working through all of these.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash or close unexpectedly
Resolved a black screen bug that occurred after landing a commitment
Improved overall stability and performance
Reduced lag and smoothed gameplay in key areas
Version 1.01
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Seller
Arc Labs Limited Liability Company
Size
11.6 MB
Category
Sports
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.