Bobby Dodd was an American college football coach.

Born in Galax, Virginia, Bobby Dodd moved to Kingsport, Tennessee and excelled at several sports in high school. After playing quarterback at the University of Tennessee, he served as an assistant coach at several schools before being named head coach and athletic director at Georgia Tech. He was involved in encouraging that institution to leave the Southeastern Conference when it imposed academic requirements over and above those imposed by the NCAA, which it did in the early 1960s, reasoning that Tech's own standards were higher than any that could be arbitarily imposed by the conference. (Tulane University also left the conference shortly afterwards over largely the same reason.) After retiring as football coach he served many more years as atheletic director only.

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1959 and as a coach in 1993.