Clint Bowen (born June 27, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He was the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the University of North Texas. Bowen has spent the large majority of his career as an assistant in some capacity, though he was named the interim head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks on September 28, 2014 after previous head coach Charlie Weis was fired. Bowen would continue his tenure at Kansas with David Beaty as the Defensive Coordinator of the Jayhawks, and was retained on staff as the Safeties coach following the hiring of Les Miles. Bowen, a former Kansas football player himself, and a Lawrence native, was on staff at Kansas for all but three years from 1996 to 2019.