AUBURN, Alabama–
Bryan Harsin, who has averaged better than 10 wins per season as head coach at Boise State, is expected to be named as Auburn’s head football coach. The hiring would come nine days after Gus Malzahn was fired following Auburn’s final regular season game.
Harsin has a 64-17 record in seven seasons at Boise State, which is his alma mater. Including one season as head coach at Arkansas State, the school where Malzahn was head coach for a season, Harsin’s overall record as a head coach is 71-22 and each of his teams has received a bowl invitation, although the Broncos declined their bid this year.
The Broncos finished the 2020 season with a 5-2 record with a 34-20 loss to San Jose State in the Mountain West Conference Championship Game. Under his guidance they have won the league title three times and he was part of eight league championships as an assistant coach for the Broncos.
Harsin was named head coach at Boise State on Dec. 11, 2013 in the city where he was a football star at Capital High School. He went on to play quarterback for the Broncos from 1995-99 and began his college coaching career at Eastern Oregon in 2000 coaching running backs and receivers.
He returned to Boise State as a graduate assistant in 2001 before becoming tight ends coach from 2002-05. When Chris Petersen was hired as head coach in 2006, Harsin was promoted to offensive coordinator and also coached the quarterbacks. During his time as a coordinator of the Broncos the team posted a 61-5 record. In 2009 he was a finalist for the Frank Broyles Award, which is presented annually to college football’s top assistant coach.
After the 2010 season he moved to the University of Texas where he was co-offensive coordinator. In Austin he helped the Longhorns’ offense that ranked 88th nationally in scoring improve to 24th in 2012 at 36.1 points per game.
In 2013, his only season at Arkansas State where he took over as head coach replacing Malzahn, his team shared the Sun Belt Conference championship and played in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.