Washington State is hiring Missouri offensive coordinator Kirby Moore as its next head coach according to multiple reports. Moore is out after three years as the Tigers’ offensive coordinator.

Washington State is set to hire Missouri offensive coordinator Kirby Moore as its new head coach, sources tell me and @chris_hummer for @CBSSports.

Moore, whom ESPN first reported as the target, has been at Missouri the last three years. pic.twitter.com/hG70O0COXl

— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) December 12, 2025

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Moore was hired prior to the start of the 2023 season, coming to Mizzou from Fresno State. A native of Prosser, WA, Moore grew up just 167 miles from the Washington State campus. Almost his entire football career prior to taking the Mizzou job was out west.

In 2022, Missouri finished 86th in the country at 25.3 points per game and 85th in yards per game. Eli Drinkwitz served as his own offensive coordinator for his first three years as Mizzou’s head coach, but cited a need to take some things off his plate when he added Moore as the offensive coordinator and primary play caller. He said the Tigers needed to score about a touchdown more per game.

In 2023, Missouri did exactly that, jumping to 29th in the country at 32.5 points per game. The season was highlighted by Cody Schrader leading the nation in rushing and finishing eighth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. That was also Brady Cook’s best year in college as he threw for 3317 yards, 21 touchdowns and six interceptions. The Tigers averaged 434 yards per game.

In 2024, Missouri slid to 63rd in total offense and 55th in scoring, but still won ten games and finished in the top 25. 

This season, the Tigers averaged 32.2 points and 429.3 yards per season, both in the top 40 in the country. But the way they got there was strange. Mizzou had at least 456 yards and 29 points in each of its first five games. In four of them, Missouri went over 40 points and 500 yards.

But as the competition ramped up, Missouri’s offense started to sputter. Mizzou was held to 24 points or fewer in five of its last seven games and gained more than 376 yards just once. The Tigers lost four of those seven games. Missouri was particularly inept throwing the football. Mizzou averaged just 152.1 passing yards per game in the last seven. That featured two games in which the Tigers threw for fewer than 100 yards and three in which they completed fewer than ten passes. 

“At the end of the season, we’ll look holistically at, hey, what is it?” Drinkwitz said a 17-6 loss to Oklahoma last weekend. “What is the exact root cause of this, and how do we fix it? But that’s not where we’re at right now.”

Not then, but now. Moore is headed to Pullman and Drinkwitz is looking for a new offensive coordinator.

Stay tuned to PowerMizzou.com for a look at candidates to replace Moore coming soon.