Former Oklahoma Sooners offensive coordinator Seth Littrell landed a new gig on Tuesday, joining another familiar face to Sooner Nation.
Tennessee Volunteers head coach Josh Heupel has hired Littrell to join his staff in Knoxville, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Adam Sparks. Sparks noted that Littrell will likely slide into an analyst role since all 10 assistant roles on the Tennessee staff have already been filled. As of Tuesday night, the team had not yet announced the move.
Littrell will join his former college teammate from 1999 to 2000 at OU. He was a fullback on the 2000 national championship team that Heupel quarterbacked to the title. The duo served as captains together for the Sooners championship run.
Ironically, Heupel and Littrell were both offensive coordinators at their alma maters and were fired from their posts nearly ten years apart.
Littrell lasted just eight games as OU’s offensive coordinator, and coached just seven games in the 2024 season. The Sooner offense reached a low point under Littrell’s leadership, and he was dismissed after a 35-9 drubbing at the hands of the South Carolina Gamecocks in October. He was originally hired as an offensive analyst by Brent Venables in 2023, after serving as North Texas’ head coach from 2016 to 2022.
It would have been challenging for anyone to have much success with the players Oklahoma had available on offense. Throw in a quarterback change midseason and it was going to be tough for Littrell to find much of a rhythm offensively.
Ben Arbuckle was brought in to take the reins of the offense in Norman to turn around a unit that underperformed in 2024.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Former Sooners offensive coordinator Seth Littrell hired by Tennessee
