Oklahoma Baptist University Men's Football

The Chris Jensen File Hometown: Lawton, Okla. Education: Oklahoma '92; Southwestern Oklahoma State '06 Wife: Patti; Children: Tayler, Quin, Tanner, Camryn, Grayson, Isaiha Granddaughter: Caroline Coaching Background 2012-Pres. Oklahoma Baptist, Head Coach 2008-12 Southmoore High School, Head Coach Career Records All-Time: 49-84 (.368) OBU Record: 49-84 (.368) Conference: 36-73 (.330) By The Numbers 1 - Only head coach since OBU rebooted the program 8 - Most wins in the NCAA D2 era (2021) 20 - All-American selections 90 - All-Conference selections 17 - Program record for wins consecutive wins vs. GAC Oklahoma schools Championships/Honors - Three straight undefeated seasons over Oklahoma schools (2018, 2019, 2021) - Led OBU to first ever winning season in second year (2014) - Led OBU to first postseason and bowl victory (2021) - Turned in best home record of 4-1 in Division II era (2023) Hired in 2012, Chris Jensen is the first Oklahoma Baptist University head football coach since 1940. He enters his 13th season as head coach on Bison Hill.  Under his direction, OBU has compiled four winning seasons, including back-to-back years in 2019 and 2021. Jensen has coached 20 All-Americans in Division II, NAIA, and NCCAA. He totals 90 All-Conference selections, and more than 100 players who were Academic All-Conference and one Academic All-American. Additionally, he has seen five players named NAIA Scholar Athletes. Jensen posted his latest winning season on Bison Hill in 2023 (6-5), which featured the program's best home record (4-1) in its Division II era. The OBU defense played a key part in the team's success, holding opponents to the fewest amount of points per game since the school joined the NCAA. Oklahoma Baptist also turned in program bests in total offense and passing yards (146.2) allowed per game. The Bison finished the year as the No. 1 ranked passing defense in the GAC for the first time ever.  For their efforts, three defensive players earned All-GAC nods, a tie of the school's record, while two (Scooter Baker, Brett Karhu) became the first defensive All-Americans in the DII era. OBU turned in six total All-Conference honorees (Offense - Michael Marshall, Nick Harris, Jake Sitsler), the second-most in program history.  Jensen has seen three Bison sign major professional contracts, such as wideout Keilahn Harris, who inked a unrestricted free agent agreement with the Atlanta Falcons in 2023. Additionally, quarterback Preston Haire signed with the European Football League's Hamburg Sea Devils and offensive lineman Jake Foshee accepted a deal with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.  In 2021, Jensen steered the Bison to its best-ever NCAA Division II record at 8-4. That included a trip to the postseason where Oklahoma Baptist defeated UT-Permian Basin in the FunTown RV Heritage Bowl. That season, OBU extended its win streak over conference Oklahoma schools to 16 games.  Jensen saw 50-plus school records fall on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball, as his 2021 squad was one of the most prolific teams in his coaching career. Four Bison (Preston Haire, Keilahn Harris, Josh Cornell, Tyler Stuever) earned All-America honors and Keilahn Harris was named a D2CCA First-Team All-Region honoree. Quarterback Preston Haire was tabbed GAC Offensive Player of the Year for a second consecutive season after ranking amongst the top in Division II in statistics for another year.  Under Jensen's watch the Bison offense set a program record and ranked fifth in the nation in first downs (313), along with leading the GAC in three other offensive categories. The passing attack accounted for 41 touchdowns, a significant jump from the 2021 total of 26. In fact the next closest touchdown occurred in 2018, when OBU racked up 28. The 2021 offense saw its best numbers in the following categories since joining Division II: Passing yards per game (287.08), passing yards (3,335), passing efficiency (149.52), completions (322), and completions per game (26.83). The 2021 defense recorded a GAC-best 34.0 sacks after totaling 11.0 in 2019. Furthermore, OBU led the conference with 79.0 tackles-for-loss. Much of the credit was given to linebacker Josh Arnold, who led the charge with 20.0. Arnold finished as the all-time leading tackler in program history with 395 stops on Bison hill. Additionally, Robert Lolofie, an All-GAC selection in 2021, led the team with 9.0 sacks, the most by a Bison player in the Division II era. Jensen's 8-3 mark in 2014 landed the Bison in the No. 26 spot in the NAIA rankings and tied a school record for single-season wins. In 2017, the Bison finished No. 1 in the NCCAA power rankings. Jensen came to OBU from Southmoore High School, whose football program Jensen also began. He rebooted the Bison program in 2012 and had the first season in the fall of 2013. Jensen started the Southmooore football program in 2008. In his and the program's second year, the SaberCats were 11-2 and reached the Class 6A semifinals. Jensen was named Oklahoma 6A-1 Coach of the Year in 2009. Jensen's coaching stops also include assistant posts at Westmoore (defensive coordinator), Bartlesville (offensive coordinator), Durant (offensive coordinator and assistant head coach), Moore (offensive line) and Little Axe (offensive line and outside linebackers). Jensen was a varsity letterman at the University of Oklahoma, playing on the offensive line. A self-described Army brat, Jensen graduated from Lawton High School and received a Naval Academy nomination. He achieved the level of Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America. Jensen received his bachelor of science degree in education in December 1992 from OU. He earned his master's degree in education administration from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in May 2006. Chris and wife, Patti, have four children, Tayler, Tanner, Camryn, and Isaiha, two sons-in-law Quinten and Grayson and one granddaughter, Caroline. The Jensens are members of Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee. Chris Jensen's All-Time Collegiate Head Coaching Record Year         Overall         Conference         Season Notes                                                                                                                2025 2-9 2-9, t-9th 13 All-GAC Selections; Nick Harris All-GAC First Team  2024 2-9 2-9, t-11th     Five All-GAC Selections: Darius Melton, Andrew Sawyer, Jake Sitsler, Haven Lysell-Stewart, Brayden Johnson  2023 6-5 6-5, 5th 2 All-Americans; 2 All-Region (1 First Team); 6 All-GAC, Best home record in DII era (4-1) 2022 1-10 1-10, 11th 1 All-Region and All-GAC selection in Keilahn Harris; Harris signed as UDFA with Atlanta Falcons 2021      8-4 7-4, 5th 4 All-Americans; 3 All-Region (1 First Team); 10 All-GAC; First Bowl game victory in program history; 5-0 vs. Oklahoma schools; Jake Foshee signed with CFL Toronto Argonauts; Preston Haire signed with European League Hamburg Sea Devils  2020 N/A N/A Season canceled due to COVID-19 2019  7-4 7-4, 5th 2 All-Region, Preston Haire: GAC Offensive Player of the Year; Six All-GAC selections; 5-0 vs. Oklahoma schools 2018   5-6 5-6, T-6th Four All-GAC Selections: Cagney Roberson, Brian Cornell, Preston Haire, Robert Lolofie; 5-0 vs. Oklahoma schools 2017    2-9 2-9. T-11th Four All-GAC Selections: Isaiah Mallory, Cagney Roberson, Dante Foster, Josh Arnold 2016 2-9 2-9, T-10th Isaiah Mallory and Zach Clark: NCCAA First Team All-Americans; Mallory also First Team All-GAC 2015     2-9 2-9, 10th Conner Kinsey, Zack Bishop, Brynden Pitzer named All-GAC Honorable Mention 2014 8-3 3-2, 3rd First winning season since reboot 2013 3-8 2-3, 4th Kimes Gilbert: NAIA All-American and Defensive Player of the Year

Gothard came to OBU in the summer of 2014 as offensive line coach after 16 years at Velma-Alma High School. He was promoted to running game coordinator prior to the 2014 season and will continue as offensive line coach. Gothard was 143-51 as the head coach at Velma-Alma, reaching the State Championship twice. He also coached the golf team to three state titles and a state runner-up finish. He additionally coached the school power-lifting team. He took the reins of the Velma-Alma program after serving as defensive coordinator at the school from 1989-97, helping the squad to two state titles. He also coached football as an assistant at Kingston High. Over the years, he also has coached baseball and basketball. A 1981 graduate of Kingston High School, Gothard received his bachelor of science degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State in 1985 and a masters of education degree from East Central in 2001. Since his college days, Gothard has served as president of the Oklahoma Football Coaches Association, been an All-State and Oil Bowl coach and been an All-State Fellowship of Christian Athletes coach. He and his wife, Leslie, have two children. They are members at Immanuel Baptist Church.

Austin Holton was joined the Bison football staff as defensive backs coach on July 18, 2022. He enters his third season on Bison Hill.  Holton has elevated the Oklahoma Baptist secondary to one of the most prolific position groups in the Great American Conference. In 2023, OBU surrendered just 146.27 passing yards per game and finished the season as the No. 1 ranked passing offense in the conference. The Bison only gave up 137 completions (the least in the GAC), brought down seven interceptions, and set a new program record (DII era) for pass break ups (38). Cornerback Tainique Taylor was selected to the All-GAC second team, the first Bison defensive back all-conference honoree in school history. Taylor broke multiple program records, which included setting a new mark for number of pass break ups (15) that finished ranked sixth in the country. Additionally, Taylor and Chase Whitebear garnered the league's GAC Player of the Week award once each.    Holton came to Shawnee following a two-year stint at Sterling College in Kansas, serving as the defensive backs coach and special team coordinator. In 2021, he steered a secondary that produced 300-plus tackles and ranked fifth in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference in interceptions (13). In his special teams role, Holton's field-goal unit went 49-49 in extra points, which ranked first in the conference. Holton produced four All-KCAC selections (2 Defensive, 2 Special Teams) and an AFCA-NAIA All-American in his 2021 campaign. Prior to Sterling, Holton was the wide receivers coach at Alleghany College in 2019 and before then, a graduate assistant football coach at Olivet Nazarene. At ONU, Holton worked primarily with the corner backs and served as the junior varsity defensive coordinator, while also serving as the junior varsity defensive coordinator and strength & conditioning coach assistant. At Olivet, he was a four-year varsity letter winner in both football and track & field for the Tigers, earning all-conference honors in track & field and ONU's Who's Who Award in 2016. Holton graduated from ONU with both a Bachelor's in Sports, Fitness and Recreation in 2016 and his Masters of Business Administration in 2019. A native of Nampa, Idaho, he attended and graduated from Nampa Christian High School. He and his wife Alyssa live in Shawnee. They recently welcomed their first child, Ariana  

Daniel Eaton was in June of 2019 as a wide receivers coach and has since been elevated to Offensive Coordinator (Spring of 2021). He enters his eighth season on Bison Hill.  OBU has risen to one of the most prominent offenses in the conference and country under Eaton's leadership. He has coached four All-Americans, six All-Region selections, and 23 All-GAC honorees. Eaton also saw quarterback Preston Haire collect the GAC's Offensive Player of the Year award in back-to-back seasons (2019, 2021). Furthermore, three Bison have signed major professional contracts, such as wideout Keilahn Harris who inked a unrestricted free agent agreement with the Atlanta Falcons in 2023. Additionally, Haire signed with the European Football League's Hamburg Sea Devils and offensive lineman Jake Foshee accepted a deal with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Haire also received a rookie mini camp invite from the New Orleans Saints in 2022. A season ago (2025), the Bison passing offense averaged 249.1 yards per game, the best total in the GAC and No. 40 in Division II.  Eaton helped coach Nick Harris to the All-GAC First Team in 2025. Harris led the GAC with 49 catches and his 749 receiving yards were good for second.  Harris also pulled down five touchdowns. In 2025, Eaton helped coach Bison quarterbacks to four, 300-yard passing games too.  In 2022, he coached Harris to his second consecutive 1,000-yard season, the third occurrence from a Bison wideout with Eaton at the helm.  OBU finished top-15 in the country in total offense and points per game in his first year of calling plays (2021). The Bison offense also finished fourth in Division II in third-down percentage, fifth in red-zone percentage and second in first downs. Haire threw for a career-best 3,356 yards while setting program records for passing touchdowns (41), completions (315), and yards per game (279.7).   Within the wide receivers’ room in the 2021 season were two All-America selections: Josh Cornell and Harris. Both were among the best in the country in multiple categories which included each recording over 1,000 receiving yards and 16 touchdowns. Harris would go on to be named a D2CCA All-American. Running back Tyler Stuever ran for 1,247 yards and 10 touchdowns en route to being named an All-American. That offense would go on to set the following school records: total offense per game (DII - 447.2), passing yards per game (279.7), completions (322), passing yards (3,435), passing touchdowns (41), total offense (5,372), passing touchdowns (41), first downs (313), passing first downs (170), and fewest fumbles lost (2).   In his first season on Bison Hill as the wide receivers coach, Eaton oversaw an up-and-coming receiving corps that showed continued improvement over the course of the season. Cornell, a redshirt sophomore at the time, led OBU with 74 receptions for 1,054 yards and 10 touchdowns – each of which was the most in a single season in school history at the time. Cornell went on to win conference and national honors. Noah McGraw also finished with All-Conference honors to close his career as one of the top receivers in school history. While at Black Hills State, Eaton mentored wideout Kielar Harpham who was a All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference selection in 2018. Eaton began his coaching career at Harker High School in San Jose, California, where he was the wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator, as well as director of recruiting. A native of Los Altos, California, Eaton played Division I football at UCLA from 2012-16. He is married to the former Alexa Richards, a former OBU women's basketball player. The couple has one child: Kai.   

Defensive Backs/Returners Coach at Oklahoma Baptist University  Former All Conference Player from Arkansas Tech University/Colorado Mesa University 

The Oklahoma Baptist football program hired Stetson Harkness as its new running backs coach, effective June 1, 2025. A native of Oklahoma City, he graduated from Southern Nazarene University in 2023 with a bachelor's in exercise science. He is currently working towards his Master's from SNU in sports administration. Since 2024, Harkness has served as the assistant strength and performance coach at Casady School. Prior to his work at Casady, he was the wide receivers coach at Deer Creek High School from 2021-2024. In between 2023-24, he worked at SNU as the strength and conditioning graduate assistant. Plus, in 2020, Harkness was an offensive assistant at Guthrie High School.

Tyler Roberts was named the Outside Linebackers coach in the spring of 2023.  Roberts began his tenure at OBU after spending last season at Oklahoma State as a football student assistant. In the spring of 2022, he was the defensive/offensive line and outside linebackers coach for the SoCal Coyotes, a developmental pro football program in California. From 2018-2021, Roberts coached at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California. As the defensive line coach in 2019, Roberts' squad was the top-rated defensive line in the nation at the junior college level after leading the state in sacks (49). The following season, he was named the Defensive Coordinator and saw his D-line produce 27 sacks in 2021.  Roberts received a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in May of 2022 from Nicholls State University, where he played on the defensive line in 2014 after earning a scholarship. He amassed 15 tackles and 1.5 tackles-for-loss in eight games with the Colonels. Prior to, he played two seasons at the College of the Desert and earned All-Conference honors as a sophomore. He is a 2012 graduate of Palm Desert High School where he was a three-year starter on the defensive line. Furthermore, Roberts garnered two All-Conference selections and was named one of the Desert Sun Top-10 Players in the Coachella Valley during his junior and senior seasons. 

Zach Blevins joined the Oklahoma Baptist coaching staff in 2020 as the tight ends coach. He has since taken on the recruiting coordinator role (2022) and transitioned into coaching running backs (2022). He enters his fifth season on Bison Hill.  Blevins' tailbacks produced over 700 yards and five touchdowns in his first season in the backfield. Blevins pushed through the injury of starting running back EJ Moore, who'd racked up 392 yards, and coached his remaining backs to 308 yards and three scores in 2023. From 2021-22, his instruction helped tight end Sam Sharp become the OBU Division II all-time leader in yards, receptions, and touchdowns. In November of 2020, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Sports Recreation and Sports Recreation Management from OBU. A former member of the Bison football team, e played offensive line all four years, starting three. In 2018, Blevins’s junior season, the Bison O-line led NCAA Division II in pass protection, allowing the fewest sacks (three) of any team in the country. A native of Cibolo, Texas, he attended and graduated from Byron P. Steele High School. He earned academic and athletic honors including Academic All-State and All-District First Team Offensive Line. He helped the Knights to the Texas 6A State Semifinals as a junior and senior Blevins is married to Allie, who is also a 2020 graduate of OBU. They have one child, daughter Millie Rose Blevins.  

Mason Farquhar comes to Bison Hill after spending the last few years at the University of Tulsa. From January of 2022 to now, he served as a graduate assistant and aided both the offensive line and linebacker units. Prior to his work at Tulsa, Farquhar spent time with the Oklahoma Sooners as an offensive student coach and analyst with the inside receivers group. While in Norman, he assisted the Sooners program in numerous facets including scout game planning, recruiting events and helping former head coach Lincoln Riley with quarterback drills. During the 2020 season, he helped the Sooners claim the Big 12 and Cotton Bowl Championships and then in 2021 was a part of the Alamo Bowl title. Farquhar also gained experience at the high school level at Tulsa Union from the fall of 2017 to the spring of 2020. A native of Tulsa, Farquhar earned his Bachelor of Arts from OU in December of 2021 with a degree in Organization & Motivation. Plus, he earned his Master's of Sports Leadership from Tulsa in May of 2024.

The Oklahoma Baptist Football program announced the hiring of Kwesi Mashack as its linebackers coach for the 2025 season. A native of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., he comes to Bison Hill after spending the previous two seasons at fellow Great American Conference institution East Central University. While in Ada, Mashack coached safeties and helped mentor Jimmy Pitts, who led the GAC with five interceptions in 2023. Plus, Mashack helped ECU's secondary to a top-15 NCAA finish in passing yards allowed per game during that same year. Furthermore, Mashack mentored All-GAC selection Tavare Smith Jr. who led the league in passes defensed last season. Prior to ECU, Mashack spent the 2022 campaign at Illinois College, serving as wide receivers coach. During that season, he helped coach a pair of all-conference wideouts, including one All-American, and aided the team to a 6-4 record. During his playing days, he was on scholarship at the University of Arizona from 2014-18. At one point in his career, he was named team captain. Mashack earned his bachelor's from Arizona in 2018 before gaining his Master's from ECU last year.