Kevin Wilson - Assistant Head Coach for Offense - Football Coaches

Kevin Wilson

Coaching Notes and Accomplishments

Former OU offensive coordinator from 2002-10 rejoined the Oklahoma staff as special assistant to the head coach/offensive analyst in the spring of 2025 season and was promoted to assistant head coach for offense in the spring of 2026.

Has more than 40 years of coaching experience, including eight as a head coach and 16 as an offensive coordinator. Was head coach at Tulsa from 2023-24 following six seasons as the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at Ohio State (2017-22). Was also head coach for six seasons at Indiana.

Has been a part of 14 seasons with 10 or more victories and has coached in four national championship games, including three at Oklahoma and one with Ohio State. He helped guide the Buckeyes to a 67-8 record in his six years on staff and before that won 26 games at Indiana.

Ohio State featured one of the nation’s top offenses under Wilson’s guidance. The Buckeyes have ranked among the top 7 in total offense all six of his seasons, and among the top 8 for scoring offense five times. In the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Ohio State was also eighth in rushing offense and 11th in scoring offense.

In his six seasons at Ohio State, the Buckeyes averaged 524.1 yards per game and 43.6 points per game, topped 500 yards of total offense 47 times and 600 yards 18 times, scored 410 touchdowns (second-most nationally), threw 242 touchdown passes (No. 1 nationally), produced three Heisman Trophy finalists (Dwayne Haskins in 2018, Justin Fields in 2019 and C.J. Stroud in 2022), produced the first 2,000-yard rusher in school history (J.K. Dobbins), produced two 1,000-yard receivers in back-to-back seasons (Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Garrett Wilson in 2021; Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka in 2022) and produced eight NFL First Round Draft selections on offense (C Billy Price, QB Dwayne Haskins, QB Justin Fields, WR Chris Olave, WR Garrett Wilson, QB C.J. Stroud, OT Paris Johnson Jr. and WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba)

Twice he’s been part of an offensive staff – at Oklahoma (2008) and Indiana (2015) – that produced a 3,500-yard passer, two 1,000-yard rushers and a 1,000-yard receiver in the same year, and Ohio State came within 46 rushing yards from Mike Weber in 2018 to giving Wilson a third team to accomplish the feat. In 2021, his offensive unit had a 4,000+ passer, two 1,000+ receivers and one 1,000-yard rusher.

During his tenure, Ohio State won four consecutive Big Ten championships plus claimed a Cotton Bowl win over USC in 2018, a Rose Bowl win over Washington in 2019, advanced to the College Football Playoffs in 2020 and defeated Clemson in the 2021 CFP Semifinals to advance to the CFP championship game.

In 2022, Wilson was selected as one of the inaugural recipients of the GRAPHITE Award recognizing excellence in Offensive Play Calling Efficiency, presented by RII Sports Technology. His Play Calling Efficiency Rating (PCER) of 80.2% during the 2022 campaign was the highest in the Big 10 Conference and ranked in the 96^th percentile among all FBS programs.
Wilson spent six seasons as the Indiana head coach and led the school to consecutive bowl games in 2015 and 2016 for the first time in 25 years. His teams led the Big Ten Conference in passing three times (2012, ’13 and ’15) while finishing second in 2016. His 2015 offense led the Big Ten in passing, total offense and scoring.

An offensive coordinator to the late Randy Walker for seven years at Miami-Ohio (1992-98) and then for three years at Northwestern (1999-2001), Wilson and Walker led the RedHawks to a 59-36-5 record before devising a power-spread offense at Northwestern that carried the Wildcats to a Big Ten Conference co-championship in 2000. Highlights of that season included Northwestern leading the Big Ten in rushing for the first time in 54 years.

Wilson then coached under Bob Stoops for nine years at Oklahoma, serving as co-offensive coordinator from 2002-05 and offensive coordinator from 2006-10. During his tenure, the Sooners won six Big 12 championships, played in three national championship games (2003, ’04 and ’08) and Wilson’s offenses featured a then-NCAA record 716 points scored in 2008 that still ranks second in FBS history.

Following the 2010 season, Wilson was named Indiana’s head coach. His IU stint was not only an exciting offensive era for the Hoosiers, but it also featured an average of 21 academic all-Big Ten players each year and his tenure was the second-longest for an IU coach in 20 years.

Wilson was selected as the Frank Broyles Award Winner in 2008 as the nation’s top assistant coach and was twice a finalist. In addition to Ohio State’s eight first-round draft selections, Wilson also had four first-round draft picks at Oklahoma – Bradford, Peterson, Trent Williams and Jermaine Gresham – and 23 of his Hoosiers moved on to the NFL.

A native of Maiden, N.C., Wilson is a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he was an offensive lineman and received his bachelor’s (education; 1984) and master’s (physical education; 1987) degrees. After three seasons as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Wilson’s full-time coaching career began in 1987 at Winston Salem State and included stops at North Carolina A&T (1988) and Ford (N.C.) High School prior to his tenure at Miami.

Wilson, and his wife, Angela, are the parents of five children: daughters Elaina, Makenzie and Marlee, and sons Trey and Toby, an offensive lineman at Ohio State.