Cobb colleges field
competitive sports teams
This is where a national park meets a national pastime.
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SPORTS
By Ryan Kolakowski
Cobb County may be home to the
headline-grabbing Atlanta Braves and
Major League Baseball, but it also serves
as a hotbed for college athletics.
Kennesaw State University, Georgia’s
third largest university with nearly
38,000 students, fields 16 NCAA Division
I programs. The KSU Owls football
team competes in the Big South Conference,
taking on the likes of Monmouth
and Charleston Southern, and the remaining
15 sports compete in the ASUN
Conference.
Since beginning football competition
in the 2015 season, the Owls have
emerged as a conference power and
a mainstay in the Division I Football
Championship Subdivision Playoffs.
KSU won Big South regular season titles
in 2017 and 2018, and the Owls were
runners-up in 2019. KSU concluded the
2019 season ranked No. 13 in the STATS
FCS Top 25, its third consecutive season
ending the year ranked.
Under Head Coach Brian Bohannon,
KSU football has garnered double-digit
win totals and qualified for the FCS playoffs
in each of the last three years. The
Owls reached the quarterfinals in 2017
and 2018 and the second round in 2019,
but have yet to reach the sport’s final four
in the postseason.
KSU also sponsors men’s teams in
baseball, basketball, cross country, golf,
On the same day Kennesaw State coach Brian Bohannon
was supposed to start preseason camp, the football
team, as well as other fall sports, were put into a waiting
game. Special — Cecil Copeland
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