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Report: Bryan Harsin emerges as candidate for Cal offensive coordinator

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Bryan Harsin
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Bryan Harsin has seen his name emerge in a search of what would be his next job in college football.

Per Matt Zenitz, Harsin has become a candidate for the open role as offensive coordinator at California. That would give him a role on the staff under Justin Wilcox after the removal of Mike Bloesch last week.

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“Former Auburn and Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin has emerged as a candidate for the offensive coordinator job at Cal, sources tell @CBSSports/@247Sports,” Zenitz tweeted on Sunday.

Harsin has been out of the sport for the past two seasons after the end of his tenure at Auburn. That was following seven seasons at Boise State, his alma mater, as well as one at Arkansas State to start as a head coach. He also served the seven seasons prior as an offensive coordinator with a pair at Texas after five with the Broncos previously.

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As a head coach for a decade with the Red Wolves, Broncos, and Tigers, Harsin was 85-36 (.702). That led to six bowl berths with five at Boise State and one at Auburn. However, after being 69-19 (.784) with the Broncos, he was just 9-12 (.429) while on The Plains. He was then fired before the end of his second season there in 2022. In those ten years, those offenses averaged 33.1 points and 430.5 yards. Most of that success came with Boise State with 35.6 ppg. and 445.2 yards.

In his seven years working as an offensive coordinator for the Longhorns and Broncos, those offenses averaged 38.7 points with 446.8 yards per game. That, again, mostly was successful at Boise State with five very effective units that had averages of 41.4 ppg., with four seasons as a top-five offense and one as the top scoring offense in the country, and 460.1 yards.

This comes after Bloesch saw his offensive numbers decrease from year one to year two at Cal. After averaging 30.2 ppg. (48th) with 390.9 yards in ’23, the Golden Bears put up 26.1 ppg. (82nd) with 382.8 yards in ’24.

After two seasons away from the sport, Harsin could now be back with a new job in Berkeley.