| Jeff Lebby | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Mississippi State |
| Current Conference: | SEC |
| Current Record: | 2–10 |
| Birth Date: | January 5, 1984 |
| Birth Place: | McGregor, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | (2007) |
| Coach Years1: | 2002–2006 |
| Coach Team1: | Oklahoma (SA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2007 |
| Coach Team2: | Victoria Memorial HS (TX) (OL/TE) |
| Coach Years3: | 2008–2011 |
| Coach Team3: | Baylor (OQC) |
| Coach Years4: | 2012–2014 |
| Coach Team4: | Baylor (RB) |
| Coach Years5: | 2015–2016 |
| Coach Team5: | Baylor (PGC/RB/ORC) |
| Coach Years6: | 2017 |
| Coach Team6: | Southeastern (OC) |
| Coach Years7: | 2018 |
| Coach Team7: | UCF (QB) |
| Coach Years8: | 2019 |
| Coach Team8: | UCF (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years9: | 2020–2021 |
| Coach Team9: | Ole Miss (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years10: | 2022–2023 |
| Coach Team10: | Oklahoma (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years11: | 2024–present |
| Coach Team11: | Mississippi State |
| Overall Record: | 2–10 |
Jeff Lebby (born January 5, 1984) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Mississippi State University, a position he has held since 2024, earning an annual salary of $4.5 million.[1] He has previously served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Oklahoma, an assistant coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Baylor University and University of Central Florida (UCF).
Lebby played high school football at Andrews High School.[2] He earned All-State honors his senior year and signed with Oklahoma to play football. An injury ended his playing career in college.
After the injury ended his playing career, he switched to coaching and stayed at Oklahoma as a student assistant.[3] At Oklahoma, he would meet then-Oklahoma quarterback and future boss Josh Heupel. He left Oklahoma to coach the offensive line and tight ends at Victoria High School (Texas).
Lebby came back to the collegiate ranks in 2008, and served various roles for Baylor across nine seasons which included passing game coordinator for two seasons. From 2008 to 2011, he was the assistant director of football operations. He also served five seasons as a running backs coach.[4]
While coaching at Baylor University, Lebby was named by Baylor student Dolores Lozano as one of the coaches that took no action against running back Devin Chafin after she reported being physically assaulted three times by him.[5] After Art Briles was terminated by Baylor, Lebby defended Briles, who is also Lebby's father-in-law, and sold shirts with #CAB (Coach Art Briles) in a show of continued support.[6]
He got his first full time offensive coordinator opportunity at Southeastern, an NAIA school in Florida. He helped lead Southeastern to the Mid-South Conference Sun Division title and a playoff berth. Southeastern would finish with the No. 1 scoring offense and the No. 3 total offense in the NAIA that year.
On December 24, 2017, UCF announced the hire of Lebby as their quarterback coach, reuniting with Josh Heupel. Under his guidance, quarterback McKenzie Milton was 7th in yards per attempt and 9th in passing efficiency rating. Milton would finish 6th in Heisman Trophy voting that year.[7] He was promoted to offensive coordinator the following year in 2019. His offense ranked 5th in total offense and true freshman quarterback Dillon Gabriel threw for 3,653 yards and 29 touchdowns.[8]
On December 11, 2019, Lebby was hired by Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss to serve in the same role as he did at UCF.[9] In his first season with the Rebels, Lebby's offense ranked eighth in total offense.[10]
On January 6, 2021, Lebby signed a two-year extension with Ole Miss.[11]
On December 8, 2021, Oklahoma football finalized a deal for Lebby to be the Sooners' new offensive coordinator under newly hired head coach Brent Venables. Lebby’s contract with Oklahoma is for three years and $5.7 million dollars.[12]
During his first season at Oklahoma, the Sooners were ranked 13th nationally in yards per game,[13] improving to 4th in 2023.[14]
On November 26, 2023, Lebby was named the head coach at Mississippi State.[15]
Lebby is married to his wife, Staley, and they have two children.[16] Lebby is the son-in-law of American football coach Art Briles and the brother-in-law of Kendal Briles.[17]