Dayton LeBlanc was hired in the spring of 2026 as Defensive Tackles Coach. The 2026 season will be his first on The Hill.
LeBlanc joins the Hilltoppers after spending one season at Eastern Kentucky, where he served as Defensive Line Coach.
He helped coach a Colonels defense that ranked tied for first nationally and first in the UAC in defensive touchdowns with five during the 2025 season. EKU was in the top three in its league in passing yards allowed, rushing defense, red zone defense, team passing efficiency defense, turnovers gained, total defense and scoring defense. EKU's 24.3 points allowed per game were second-best in the UAC.
Prior to the 2025 season at EKU, LeBlanc was at Georgia as an Assistant Defensive Line Coach for the 2023 and 2024 seasons under Head Coach Kirby Smart. With the Bulldogs, he helped in the development of All-SEC sections Nazir Stackhouse and Mykell Williams, and helped the program to a Capital One Orange Bowl victory in 2023 and an SEC Championship.
In the 2023 season, the Bulldogs had the top defense in the SEC and ninth-best in all of FBS for total defense, allowing only 289.1 yards per game, and 15.6 points per game, the fifth-best mark in the country. On the ground that season, UGA allowed only 113.6 yards per game – the 18th-best figure in the FBS.
Before Georgia, LeBlanc served as a Defensive Line Student Assistant at North Texas in 2022, helping the Mean Green to a 7-7 record and appearances in the CUSA Championship game and the Frisco Bowl.
LeBlanc played for the Mean Green from 2018-2021 and was named to the CUSA All-Freshman team in 2019 with 30 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack, appearing in all 12 games that season. LeBlanc graduated from North Texas with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 2021 and a Master's degree in Sports Management in 2022.
LeBlanc is a native of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2018, where he was rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports.
