Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Kennesaw State |
Conference | CUSA |
Record | 71–31 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Macon, Georgia, U.S. | December 17, 1970
Playing career | |
1990–1993 | Georgia |
Position(s) | Wide receiver |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1994–1995 | West Georgia (AC) |
1996 | Gardner–Webb (WR) |
1997–1999 | Georgia Southern (WR) |
2000–2001 | Georgia Southern (DB) |
2002–2007 | Navy (WR) |
2008–2012 | Georgia Tech (QB/B-backs) |
2013–present | Kennesaw State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 71–31 |
Bowls | 5–4 (NCAA D-I playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3 Big South (2017–2018, 2021) | |
Awards | |
2× Big South Coach of the Year (2017–2018) [1] [2] AFCA FCS Reg. 2 Coach of the Year (2017) [3] AFCA FCS National Coach of the Year (2017) [4] | |
Brian Bohannon (born February 20, 1971) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, a position he has held since the inception of the program in 2013. The Kennesaw State Owls began play in 2015.
On March 24, 2013, Bohannon was introduced as the first head coach of the Owls football team that started play as a member of the Big South Conference in the 2015 season. [5] [6] Prior to his time at Kennesaw State, Bohannon served as an assistant coach under Paul Johnson at Georgia Southern, Navy and Georgia Tech. [6]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | STATS# | FCS° | ||
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Kennesaw State Owls (Big South Conference)(2015–2021) | |||||||||
2015 | Kennesaw State | 6–5 | 2–4 | T–5th | |||||
2016 | Kennesaw State | 8–3 | 3–2 | T–3rd | |||||
2017 | Kennesaw State | 12–2 | 5–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division I Quarterfinal | 8 | 9 | ||
2018 | Kennesaw State | 11–2 | 5–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division I Quarterfinal | 5 | 5 | ||
2019 | Kennesaw State | 11–3 | 5–1 | 2nd | L NCAA Division I Second Round | 13 | 8 | ||
2020–21 | Kennesaw State | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2nd | 17 | 15 | |||
2021 | Kennesaw State | 11–2 | 6–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division I Second Round | 11 | 10 | ||
Kennesaw State Owls (ASUN Conference)(2022) | |||||||||
2022 | Kennesaw State | 5–6 | 1–4 | 5th | |||||
Kennesaw State Owls (NCAA Division I FCS independent)(2023) | |||||||||
2023 | Kennesaw State | 3–6 | |||||||
Kennesaw State Owls (Conference USA)(2024–present) | |||||||||
2024 | Kennesaw State | 0–1 | 0–0 | ||||||
Kennesaw State: | 71–31 | 29–12 | |||||||
Total: | 71–31 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
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