Dawson Tayrone Odums is an American football coach.

He was most recently the head coach at Norfolk State University, a position he held from 2021 to 2024.

Odums served as the interim head football coach at Clark Atlanta University for one season, in 2004, and head football coach at Southern University and A&M College from 2013 to 2020.

Odums agreed to a three-year contract extension as head football coach with Southern University as reported by the Advocate and confirmed by his agent Burton Rocks on January 17, 2014.

[2] On April 20, 2021, Odums agreed to a six-year deal with Norfolk State to become the new head coach.