Koy McFarland joined Campbell’s staff as linebackers coach in the spring of 2025.
A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, McFarland brings nearly a decade of experience coaching at the FBS level, including six bowl games.
McFarland comes to Campbell from Tulsa, were he also coached linebackers for the Golden Hurricane for two seasons under head coach Kevin Wilson.
Under McFarland, two Tulsa linebackers ranked in the top-10 of the American Athletic Conference in tackles for loss in 2024, while also assisting in all four special teams units. McFarland also helped bring in the AAC’s second-ranked recruiting class in 2024, including the top linebacker commit in school history.
Earning 247Sports 30 Under 30 for college football’s rising coaching stars in 2023, Tulsa’s linebacker corps saw four players rank among the team’s top eight in tackles, combining for 181 stops, to go along with 16 TFL on the season.
Prior to joining the Golden Hurricane, McFarland spent one season on the defensive coaching staff at Ohio State. He was named to the Buckeyes staff in January of 2022 as a graduate assistant coach, working with the linebackers and helping the Buckeyes reach the CFP semifinals.
Before Ohio State, McFarland spent three seasons (2019-21) as an assistant linebackers coach at Oklahoma State. When Cowboys’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Jim Knowles left to join Ohio State’s staff prior to OSU’s Fiesta Bowl game against Notre Dame in January 2022, McFarland took over full-time linebacker position coaching duties.
McFarland was also a defensive graduate assistant at Louisiana Tech for two seasons (2017-18), where he assisted with coaching the defensive secondary.
Beginning his coaching career in the spring season of 2017 as an offensive graduate assistant at his alma mater, the University of Arkansas at Monticello, McFarland coached the running back position for the Boll Weevils.
McFarland began his playing career at Copiah Lincoln Community College before finishing at Arkansas-Monticello. He played wide receiver and was a team captain at both schools.
McFarland graduated from Arkansas-Monticello in 2016 with a degree in business administration, later completing a masters in healthcare administration at Oklahoma State in 2021.
He is the son of former Stephen F. Austin head coach Robert McFarland.
McFarland married his wife, Macy, a Stillwater, Okla. native, in 2024.
