Jake Spavital has reportedly found a home in the Pac-12.
More than a month after he and Texas A&M “mutually decided to part ways,” the former Aggies’ offensive coordinator has reportedly landed at Cal. Both Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports are reporting that the 30-year-old Spavital is expected to take the same position for Sonny Dykes and the Golden Bears. Additionally, per Fox Sports, Spavital will call plays.
Spavital will replace Tony Franklin, who left Cal last month to take the OC job at Middle Tennessee. Franklin said he wanted to be closer to his family.
Spavital spent the past three seasons at A&M. He first served as quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator before being promoted to offensive coordinator prior to the 2014 campaign.
Before his time at A&M, Spavital was a graduate assistant under A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin and Dana Holgorsen at Houston. When Holgorsen left Houston to become the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, Spavital joined OSU’s staff as a graduate assistant.
Holgorsen then accepted the head-coaching job at West Virginia and took Spavital with him as the Mountaineers’ quarterbacks coach. Spavital served in that capacity in 2011 and 2012 before joining A&M.
At Cal, Spavital inherits an offense that put up big numbers in 2015. However, record-setting quarterback Jared Goff declared for the NFL draft, so Spavital will be working with a new starting quarterback. The team also lost most of its top receivers to graduation or the NFL.
Cal went 8-5 in 2015 and won the Armed Forces Bowl.
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