Helton is currently in his third season at the helm of Georgia Southern and he has the Eagles sitting at 6-4 and in the driver’s seat for a bowl bid for a third-straight year. Since coming to Statesboro,
Helton is 18-18 overall, but he is in the midst of his best Sun Belt season to date. Georgia Southern is 4-2 in the league with two games remaining, putting them within striking distance of a Sun Belt title game appearance.
Prior to Georgia Southern, Helton spent parts of eight seasons at USC, compiling a 46-24 overall record with a 2016 Rose Bowl win and 2017 Pac-12 championship to his name. Despite going 5-1 with the Trojans in the COVID-shortened 2020
season, USC fired Helton after two games the next season. That Trojan team finished the season 4-8 before the program hired Lincoln Riley the next year.
Helton first joined the USC program in 2010 as quarterbacks coach under Lane Kiffin.
