The 2017 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented

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in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Paul Haynes and played their home games at

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as members of the East Division of the

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. They finished the season 2–10, 1–7 in MAC play to finish in last place in the East Division. On August 28, 2017, the school announced that head coach Paul Haynes would be taking a medical leave of absence and miss the first two to three weeks of the season. Offensive coordinator

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was named interim head coach. Haynes returned to the Flashes after missing two games due to prostate cancer treatments. On November 22, one day after the Flashes' final game of the season against

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, the school fired Paul Haynes after five losing seasons. On December 19, the school hired Sean Lewis as head coach.

Previous season

The Golden Flashes finished the 2016 season 3–9, 2–6 in MAC play to finish in fifth place in the East Division.

Coaching staff

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Schedule

Source:2017 Kent State Golden Flashes football schedule
''FBSchedules.com''. Retrieved April 29, 2017.

Game summaries

At Clemson

Howard

At Marshall

At Louisville

Buffalo

At Northern Illinois

Miami (OH)

At Ohio

Bowling Green

At Western Michigan

Central Michigan

At Akron

References

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