Auburn hires Alex Golesh as next head football coach

The Auburn Tigers hired Alex Golesh arsenic their adjacent caput shot coach, the schoolhouse announced connected Sunday.

Golesh volition caput to the SEC schoolhouse aft 3 seasons astatine the helm of the South Florida Bulls. The squad finished the regular play with a 9-3 grounds and capped it disconnected with a 52-3 triumph implicit the Rice Owls connected Saturday.

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South Florida Bulls caput manager Alex Golesh speaks with the caput enactment justice during the Navy Midshipmen crippled astatine Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium connected Nov. 15, 2025. (Tommy Gilligan/Imagn Images)

He joined South Florida for the 2023 season, starring the schoolhouse to 7 wins, including a triumph successful the Boca Raton Bowl. It was overmuch of the aforesaid successful 2024 – a 7-6 grounds and a triumph successful the Hawaii Bowl.

The 2025 play was Golesh’s best. Bulls backmost Byrum Brown had 3,158 passing yards and led the squad with 1,008 rushing yards. The squad started with wins implicit ranked opponents Boise State and Florida earlier suffering their archetypal nonaccomplishment against Miami. The squad besides had losses against Memphis and Navy.

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South Florida Bulls caput manager Alex Golesh looks connected against the UTSA Roadrunners astatine Raymond James Stadium connected Nov. 6, 2025. (Kim Klement Neitzel/Imagn Images)

Auburn parted ways with Hugh Freeze aft 9 games. Freeze was hired implicit from the Liberty Flames aft helium was capable to get them into 3 vessel games successful 4 years.

However, Auburn ne'er had much than six wins nether Freeze. In 2023, the Tigers were 6-7 and mislaid successful the Music City Bowl.

South Florida Bulls caput manager Alex Golesh reacts to a replay during the Florida Atlantic Owls crippled astatine Raymond James Stadium connected Oct. 18, 2025. (Reinhold Matay/Imagn Images)

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Golesh volition beryllium Auburn’s 4th caput manager since winning a nationalist title successful 2010.

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