Golesh returns to the SEC after serving as Tennessee\u2019s offensive coordinator and tight ends coach from 2021-22.<\/p>\n
He left the Vols to become USF\u2019s head coach from 2023-25. The former Tennessee assistant led the Bulls to a 23-15 (14-10 AAC) record and two bowl game wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am humbled and grateful to have been named the head football coach at Auburn<\/a> University seven months ago, and it has been an incredible journey up until this point,\u201d Golesh said at SEC media days. \u201cThankful to be back in Tampa. We spent just over three years here and met some incredible people here, some dear friends still. This community was incredible to my family. I am really, really thankful for my time here and the way we got treated and the commitment that was made to us here in Tampa.<\/p>\n \u201cThankful to Dr. (Christopher) Roberts and our administration, and them welcoming us to Auburn. What they’ve done for us through these first seven months in giving us the ability to go hire an elite staff, to go build the way we need to. Thankful to John Cohen for bringing me to Auburn, our board of trustees that continues to pour into our program. Beyond thankful to the Auburn family for welcoming us, my family.\u201d<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Tennessee will host the Tigers on Oct. 3 at Neyland Stadium.<\/p>\n More: Auburn football hires former Tennessee offensive coordinator<\/a> Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 21, 2026, 1:10 p.m. ET Alex Golesh made his SEC football media days debut on Tuesday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31,118220,35395,303,13194,298,11010,299,97,43,4819,96,4818,4821,9811,301,300,8664,21414,9810,135,137,136,34],"class_list":["post-347527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcevols-wire","tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagalex-golesh","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagauburn-tigers-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-conference-football","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-coaching-training","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtampa","tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-football","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784656327_116_90988565007-2286338050.jpeg\")