Landon Keopple is in his fourth season with the Bobcats (2026) after serving as the assistant wide receivers coach in 2024 and offensive analyst in 2023. He was instrumental in helping TXST to its second straight win in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl in 2024. The Texas State offense finished the 2024 season top 10 in scoring and total offense and in the top 25 in rushing and passing offense. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in January 2025.
In his first year as offensive coordinator in 2026, Keopple helped lead the Bobcats to their third bowl win in as many seasons behind an offense that finished fifth in the country in total offense. The Bobcats’ ground game finished 10th in the country with 222.1 yards per game. The 2025 rushing attack also set single season records for rushing touchdowns (36) and rushing yards (2,887). In the redzone, Keopple’s offense finished eighth in the country with a .921 scoring percentage. His offense helped quarterback Brad Jackson set a Texas State single-season record with the highest pass efficiency at 164.0 and highest completion percentage at 71.3. Texas State also set a single season record for most total yards per play at 6.68. Eight offensive Bobcats earned All-Conference selections.
The Fayetteville, Arkansas, native spent the 2022 season under Kinne at UIW, serving as a senior offensive analyst. During that season, the Cardinals won the Southland Championship and earned a No. 7 national ranking and a national seed in the FCS Playoffs. UIW finished the season 12-2 with an appearance in the FCS semifinals and led all of NCAA Division I – FBS and FCS – with 51.5 points and 581.2 yards per game.
In their first stop together, Keopple worked as a senior offensive analyst under OC Kinne at Hawaii in 2020 and remained on staff for the 2021 season as the chief of staff/director of football operations as well as the director of recruiting.
Prior to his time at Hawaii, Keopple spent 11 years at Southern Arkansas (Division II), including nine years as its offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach/recruiting coordinator (2011-19). In this role, he coached 51 All-GAC selections in the last seven years and helped a quarterback earn all-conference in eight straight seasons. He also mentored the program's all-time leading passer, rusher and wide receiver in school history. During the 2009-10 seasons, Keopple served as the quarterbacks coach, wide receivers coach and strength & conditioning coordinator.
Keopple opened his coaching career at Ouachita Baptist (Division II) as a graduate assistant and wide receivers coach from 2007-08 following a standout career at Tulsa where he helped the Golden Hurricane to a Conference USA championship in 2005 and two bowl game appearances (2003 Humanitarian Bowl and 2005 Liberty Bowl).
