Cam Aiken - Football Coach - James Madison University Athletics

Cam Aiken

Title:
Offensive Coordinator
Phone:
540-568-6517

Cam Aiken is in his first season with the James Madison football program in 2026, as he serves as the offensive coordinator.

Aiken brings 15 years of coaching experience to Harrisonburg, with all but one at the FBS level, highlighted by winning the 2016 and 2018 College Football Playoff national championship with Clemson in 2016 and 2018.

Most recently, Aiken spent the 2025 season as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at ETSU, where he engineered one of the top offenses in the Football Championship Subdivision, ranking 15th in total offense, at 442.3 yards per game, and 24th in scoring, at 32.5 points per game.

ETSU’s offense was one of the nation’s leaders in first downs per game, at fifth (23.83), while also ranking 12th on fourth down conversions (65.2%), 14th in rushing (198.2) and 26th in passing (244.2). His offense set single-season program records in total offense per game, passing yards, completions, completion percentage and first downs, leading to a 7-5 record.

Three Buccaneer offensive standouts earned First Team All-Southern Conference status in offensive linemen Ashton Flinn and Seth Williams and receiver Devontae Houston.

Prior to ETSU, Aiken spent two seasons as an analyst on Lane Kiffin’s staff at Ole Miss. In 2024, the Rebels ranked second nationally in total offense per game (521.3 yards per game) and seventh in scoring offense (37.5 PPG). The year before in 2023, Aiken helped Ole Miss go 11-2 and a win in the Peach Bowl over Penn State. It was the first time in the 130 seasons of Ole Miss football that the team won 11 or more games in a season.

Following his 2025 season at ETSU before joining the Dukes, Aiken re-joined Ole Miss as an offensive consultant, working with the tight ends and game planning, helping the Rebels reach the CFP semifinals after a first-round win over Tulane and a thrilling win over #3 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Before his move to the SEC, Aiken spent a pair of seasons at USF (2021-22) as the running backs coach and run game coordinator. During his second season with the Bulls, Aiken coached just the sixth 1,000-yard rusher in program history and first in five seasons, as Brian Battie ran for nearly 1,200 yards and eight touchdowns to finish as the American’s second-leading rusher. Battie tied a USF record with five-straight 100-yard rushing games to end the 2022 campaign, and his seven 100-yard games ranked third all-time in USF single-season history. He also set a program record with 1,936 all-purpose yards, adding 659 kick return yards and 91 receiving yards to his rushing total.

The Bulls posted seven 200-yard rushing games in 2022, had 10 100-yard rushers in a game, and posted 25 rushing touchdowns for the second-straight year. The USF rushing offense ranked 29th nationally (197.9) and averaged 5.4 per carry (3rd best in USF history).

In his first season of 2021, he helped guide Jaren Mangham to a team-leading 671 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns, which ranked eighth nationally and tied for the second-most rushing touchdowns in program history. The Bulls also ran for a program-record 421 yards vs. Temple.

Aiken joined the USF staff after a highly successful stint on Dabo Swinney’s staff at Clemson, where he spent nine seasons (2011-13, 2015-20). After beginning his coaching career in 2011 as an offensive intern with the quarterbacks, he returned to Clemson in 2015, spending the next five years as offensive player development with the quarterbacks and running backs. He also served as a senior offensive assistant with the QBs and RBs in 2020.

He was part of six consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference championships from 2015-20, making the College Football Playoff each season. That included national title wins in 2016 and 2018. He was part of an offensive staff that ranked top 15 nationally in total offense and top 20 in scoring in each of those six final seasons. That included a final three-year stretch being top 10 in total offense and top four in scoring from 2018 to 2020.

Aiken also had a single-season stop at UAB (2014) as a graduate assistant working with the quarterbacks.

In 2018, Aiken was honored by 247 Sports on the 30 Under 30 College Football Rising Stars.

Aiken earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Clemson in 2011. He and his wife, Ashleigh, have three sons.

Aiken Coaching File
2026: James Madison (Offensive Coordinator)
2025 CFP: Ole Miss (Offensive Consultant)
2025: ETSU (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks)
2023-24: Ole Miss (Offensive Analyst)
2021-21: USF (Running Backs/Run Game Coordinator)
2015-20: Clemson (Senior Offensive Assistant/Offensive Player Development)
2014: UAB (Graduate Assistant)
2011-13: Clemson (Offensive Intern)