Kevin McGiven is in his first season as Utah State’s offensive coordinator. The 2025 campaign is his third stint at USU. He spent the 2013-14 seasons as the Aggies offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and the 2009 campaign as its assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach.
McGiven has 24 years of collegiate coaching experience, including 16 seasons coordinating NCAA Division I offenses and mentoring quarterbacks. He has been part of three conference championship teams and has helped six teams to bowl eligibility, along with two more advancing to the FCS playoffs.
McGiven has nurtured the careers of several prominent quarterbacks, including three of the top six passing yardage signal callers in Utah State history in Chuckie Keeton, Kent Myers, and Diondre Borel, and the career passing yardage leaders at Montana State (Denarius McGhee) and Weber State (Cameron Higgins). At San José State, he mentored Josh Love, the 2019 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year, and Nick Starkel, the 2020 MW Championship Game Most Valuable Offensive Player and a second-team all-conference selection.
McGiven came to Utah State after spending the past seven seasons at San José State, which included serving as the Spartans’ offensive coordinator for six years. With McGiven on staff, SJSU won 38 games and qualified for four bowl games over the final five seasons, including winning the 2020 Mountain West Championship as the Spartans concluded the year No. 24 in the Associated Press poll.
Serving as San José State’s passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach in 2024, McGiven helped the Spartans lead the MW and rank fifth in the FBS in passing offense at 325.3 yards per game, while wide receiver Nick Nash led the nation in receiving yards per game (115.2), receptions per game (8.7) and receiving touchdowns (16), and was a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, honoring the nation’s top receiver.
McGiven spent his first six seasons at San José State as its offensive coordinator, which included coaching the quarterbacks from 2021-23. In 2023, SJSU rushed for 2,393 yards, finishing just 85 yards behind the single-season school record. In 2022, the Spartans led the country with only six turnovers during the regular season, while quarterback Chevan Cordeiro led the MW with 3,251 yards passing and 23 touchdowns. Cordeiro twice earned All-MW honors under McGiven.
In the national rankings, San Jose State was fourth in passing offense in 2019 and 19th in the same category during its 2020 championship season.
Before his time at San José State, McGiven spent three seasons at Oregon State, serving as the quarterbacks coach in 2015, co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2016, and offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2017.
McGiven’s second stint at Utah State was during the 2013-14 seasons as he helped the Aggies to a 19-9 record, including a 13-3 conference mark, an appearance in the inaugural MW Championship game and back-to-back bowl wins, which included a 21-14 victory against No. 24 Northern Illinois in the Poinsettia Bowl.
Before Utah State, McGiven helped Montana State to an 11-2 record and its third-straight Big Sky Conference Championship in 2012. As its offensive coordinator, the Bobcats scored 33.5 points per game, finishing 20th in the nation at the FCS level.
McGiven also spent two years at Memphis (2010-11) as the assistant head coach of offense and quarterbacks’ coach.
In his first stint with Utah State during the 2009 season, McGiven improved USU’s offense from 89th nationally in 2008 to 14th in 2009, averaging 439.3 yards per game.
Before the 2009 campaign, McGiven was Weber State’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for three seasons, helping the Wildcats to a share of the Big Sky Conference title and advancing to the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs in 2008.
McGiven joined the Weber State coaching staff in 2006 after one season at Southern Utah, where he was the Thunderbirds’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
McGiven began his coaching career in 1998 at Louisiana Tech as a student assistant coach after his playing career was cut short due to an injury. He accepted an assistant coaching position in 2001 at Mountain View High in Orem, Utah, and returned to the college ranks in 2002 as a graduate assistant on the BYU staff.
McGiven grew up in Orem, Utah, and graduated from Mountain View High School in 1995. He played one season at Eastern Arizona Junior College and later played wide receiver at Louisiana Tech, before finishing his bachelor’s degree in business from Utah Valley in 2001. He later earned his master’s degree in physical education from BYU in 2005.
He and his wife Lindsay have four children: sons Peyton, K.J. and Beau; and daughter Ireland.
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Coaching History
2025- Utah State – Offensive Coordinator
2024 San José State – Passing Game Coordinator/WR
2021-23 San José State – Offensive Coordinator/QB
2018-20 San José State – Offensive Coordinator
2017 Oregon State – Offensive Coordinator/QB
2016 Oregon State – Co-Offensive Coordinator/QB
2015 Oregon State – Quarterbacks
2013-14 Utah State – Offensive Coordinator/QB
2012 Montana State – Offensive Coordinator/QB
2010-11 Memphis – Assistant Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator/QB
2009 Utah State – Assistant Head Coach/QB
2006-08 Weber State – Offensive Coordinator/QB
2005 Southern Utah – Offensive Coordinator/QB/WR
2002-04 BYU – Graduate Assistant
2001 Mountain View (UT) HS – Assistant/WR/TE
1998 Louisiana Tech – Student Assistant
Bowl Games (6)
San José State (4): 2024 Hawaii Bowl; 2023 Hawaii Bowl; 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl; 2020 Arizona Bowl
Utah State (2): 2014 New Mexico Bowl; 2013 Poinsettia Bowl
FCS Playoffs (2)
Montana State – FCS Quarterfinals, 2012
Weber State – FCS Quarterfinals, 2008
Conference Championships (3)
San José State (1) – Mountain West: 2020
Montana State (1) – Big Sky: 2012
Weber State (1) – Big Sky: 2008
Playing Experience
1998 Louisiana Tech – Wide Receiver
1995 Eastern Arizona JC – Wide Receiver
Education
2005 BYU – Physical Education (Master’s)
2001 Utah Valley – Business (Bachelor’s)
Family
Wife, Lindsay; Sons, Peyton, K.J., Beau; Daughter, Ireland
