| Matt Viator | |
| Current Title: | Quality control assistant |
| Current Team: | Louisiana |
| Current Conference: | Sun Belt |
| Birth Date: | 3 September 1963 |
| Alma Mater: | McNeese State University |
| Coach Years1: | 1986–1988 |
| Coach Team1: | Sam Houston HS (LA) (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1989–1990 |
| Coach Team2: | Vinton HS (LA) |
| Coach Years3: | 1991–1994 |
| Coach Team3: | Jennings HS (LA) |
| Coach Years4: | 1995–1998 |
| Coach Team4: | Sulphur HS (LA) |
| Coach Years5: | 1999 |
| Coach Team5: | McNeese State (LB) |
| Coach Years6: | 2000–2006 |
| Coach Team6: | McNeese State (OC) |
| Coach Years7: | 2006–2015 |
| Coach Team7: | McNeese State |
| Coach Years8: | 2016–2020 |
| Coach Team8: | Louisiana–Monroe |
| Coach Years9: | 2021–present |
| Coach Team9: | Louisiana (QC) |
| Overall Record: | 97–72 (college) |
| Tournament Record: | 0–5 (NCAA D-I playoffs) |
| Championships: | 4 SLC (2006–2007, 2009, 2015) |
| Awards: | 3× Southland Coach of the Year (2006–2007, 2015) |
Matt Viator (born September 3, 1963) is an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at McNeese State University from 2006 to 2015 and the University of Louisiana at Monroe from 2016 to 2020.[1] [2] Viator began his coaching career in 1986 as a high school assistant coach, before leading several high schools in southwestern Louisiana as a head coach. He moved to the college ranks at McNeese State in 1999 and was elevated to head coach four games into the 2006 season after the firing of Tommy Tate.[3]
Viator led Jennings High School to a Louisiana Class 3A State Championship in 1992, the school's first, and only, state title since 1939.