Kennesaw State U. prepares for first football season

Eli Goodstein | University of Southern California

Kennesaw State University will play its first football game ever this fall.

After nearly 10 years of planning and development, the debut season of the school's football team will begin in September.

The coaching staff started recruiting players throughout the southeast after head coach Brian Bohannon was hired in early 2013. KSU also built offices and athletic facilities to house the new team, located approx. 30 miles outside of Atlanta.

Bohannon says he is trying to build a long-lasting program so football can "make an impact on the university and the community."

Eli Goodstein is a student at the University of Southern California and a summer 2015 USA TODAY Collegiate Correspondent.

This story originally appeared on the USA TODAY College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.