Coming off a highly successful 10-year stint as head coach at Kennesaw State, former Georgia Tech assistant coach Brian Bohannon returns to The Flats as senior offensive assistant for the Yellow Jackets.
Bohannon put together an ultra-impressive 72-38 record (.655) as the first head coach in Kennesaw State history from 2015-24. In the first seven seasons of program history, Bohannon led the Owls to seven-straight winning campaigns, four 11-win seasons, four NCAA Division I FCS playoff appearances and three Big South Conference championships. KSU finished ranked in the top 15 in the FCS rankings five-straight seasons from 2017-21, including a No. 5 final ranking in 2018. He oversaw the football team’s transition to the NCAA Division I FBS ranks over his final three seasons at KSU, which included a 27-24 win over previously undefeated Liberty in 2024 that proved to be one of college football’s biggest upsets of the year.
During his time at KSU, Bohannon was named the American Football Coaches FCS Coach of the Year in 2017, Big South Coach of the Year three times (2017, 2018 and 2021) and AFCA District Coach of the Year in 2018.
Prior to leading Kennesaw State’s entry to college football beginning in 2013, Bohannon was an assistant coach for 16 seasons under College Football Hall of Fame head coach Paul Johnson, including five seasons as quarterbacks/B-backs coach at Georgia Tech (2008-12). Bohannon also coached under Johnson at Navy (wide receivers – 2002-07) and Georgia Southern (wide receivers – 1997-99; defensive backs – 2000-01). In his 16 seasons under Johnson, Bohannon helped lead Georgia Southern to two NCAA Division I-AA national championships and five-straight Southern Conference titles, Navy to five Commander-in-Chief’s Trophies and five bowl appearances and Georgia Tech to three ACC Coastal Division championships and five bowl games.
Bohannon began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at West Georgia in 1994-95 before spending one season as wide receivers coach at Gardner-Webb in 1996.
A Griffin, Ga. native, Bohannon played wide receiver at Georgia from 1990-93, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business in ‘93. He earned a master’s in business education from West Georgia in 1996. He and his wife, Melanie, have three children – sons, Blake and Braden, and daughter, Brooke.
