Dave Clawson is a college football analyst who joined ESPN in 2025 following a 36-year collegiate coaching career, including 25 seasons as a head coach. In 2026, he joins Roxy Bernstein and Madison Hock in the broadcast booth to call games on the ACC Network.
Clawson is the only coach in Division I history to lead four programs — Fordham, Richmond, Bowling Green and Wake Forest — to 10-win seasons. The 2021 ACC Coach of the Year, he led Wake Forest to its first top-10 ranking in school history, a program-record seven consecutive bowl games and an ACC Championship Game berth in 2021.
A native of Youngstown, New York, Clawson graduated from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in political economy in 1989, where he was a member of the football and basketball teams. He began his coaching career at the University at Albany, where he also earned a master’s degree in liberal studies. Clawson and his wife, Catherine, are the parents of two adult children, Courtney and Eric.