Kevin Barbay

Biography

Kevin Barbay was hired as the offensive coordinator at TU in January 2026. Barbay comes to Tulsa after spending the 2025 season as an offensive analyst at the University of Kentucky. Barbay went to Lexington after serving as Houston’s offensive coordinator in 2024. Prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mississippi State during the 2023 season. Barbay has built a reputation for crafting high-powered offenses. During a five-year span coaching at Mississippi State (2023), Appalachian State (2022), and Central Michigan (2019-21), his teams recorded 31 games with 30 or more points and 19 games with at least 500 yards of total offense. During the 2022 and 2021 seasons, his offenses combined to average 448.01 yards per game and ranked in the top 20 nationally. In 2022, Barbay’s Appalachian State offense ranked in the top 25 nationally in multiple categories, including a scoring offense average of 34.9 points per game, a passer rating of 155.80, and a rushing offense average of 204.42 yards. His unit also ranked No. 8 nationally with 21 plays of 40 or more yards. While at Central Michigan in 2021, Barbay oversaw an offense that averaged 440.7 yards per game and helped develop Lew Nichols III, who led the nation with 1,848 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns. He also played a key role in the development of two future NFL offensive linemen, Luke Goedeke and Bernhard Raimann, who were both selected in the 2022 NFL Draft. Barbay’s career spans multiple lev