Tennessee parted ways with second-year head coach Brian Callahan in the NFL on Oct. 13. Mike McCoy is serving as the Titans’ interim head coach for the remainder of 2025 season.
“After extended conversations with our owner and general manager, we met with Brian Callahan this morning to tell him we are making a change at head coach,” Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker said. “These decisions are never easy, and they become more difficult when they involve people of great character. We are grateful for Brian’s investment in the Titans and Tennessee community during his tenure as head coach. We thank him and his family for being exemplary ambassadors of the Tennessee Titans.
“While we are committed to a patient and strategic plan to build a sustainable, winning football program, we have not demonstrated sufficient growth. Our players, fans, and community deserve a football team that achieves a standard we are not currently meeting, and we are committed to making the hard decisions necessary to reach and maintain that standard.”
Former Tennessee and current Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin could be an option for the Titans in replacing Callahan.
According to Bruce Feldman and Ralph Russo of The Athletic, Kiffin could be linked to the Titans’ head coach vacancy.
“This situation seems to be trending in a positive direction for Rebels fans who would like to keep their coach, but one note of caution: One industry source said there was at least a modicum of interest in Kiffin among decision-makers with the Tennessee Titans,” Feldman and Russo said in The Athletic (subscription required).
Kiffin served as the Vols’ head coach in 2009, compiling a 7-6 (4-4 SEC) record. Tennessee won games against Western Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, Memphis, Vanderbilt and at Kentucky under Kiffin. The Vols appeared in the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl versus Virginia Tech.
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