Xavier Garcia was hired as the program's new defensive line coach before the 2025 season.
Garcia spent the 2024 season at Georgia Tech as a defensive assistant working with the defensive line. The Yellow Jackets racked up 18 sacks in 13 games and made an appearance in the Birmingham Bowl. Tackle Jordan van den Berg was an All-ACC Second Team selection and Zeek Biggers earned honorable mention all-conference honors.
Garcia spent the previous season at Duke, helping the Blue Devils lead the ACC in scoring defense at 19 points per game which was 16th-best nationally.
He also spent time at SMU, Temple, Central Oklahoma, and Angelo State as a graduate assistant. Garcia started his coaching career at New Mexico Military Institute, where he also was a two-time all-conference selection before finishing his career at Eastern Kentucky where he started 10 games his senior year.
Jax State has won nine games each of the last three seasons and is coming off a Conference USA championship and an appearance in the StaffDNA Cure Bowl.
