Minnesota fires offensive coordinator Greg Harbaugh

Minnesota has fired offensive coordinator Greg Harbaugh, On3’s Pete Nakos reported. The decision comes amid a three-game losing streak for the Golden Gophers, most recently to Penn State on Saturday.

During the recent skid, Minnesota has only scored 20 points once, doing so against UCLA in Week 10. But even beyond the losing streak, the Golden Gophers have not scored more than 21 points since a victory at Washington in Week 4.

As a whole, Minnesota ranks 17th in the Big Ten with 299.4 total yards per game, and the Golden Gophers’ 23.6 points per game rank 15th out of the 18 teams in the conference. Now, the program is making a change ahead of the final two-game stretch.

Harbaugh was a quality control coach at Minnesota in 2017 and 2019 before returning as tight ends coach in 2022. He then became co-offensive coordinator in 2023 and quarterbacks coach before becoming the lone OC in 2025.

Previously, Harbaugh worked for PJ Fleck at Western Michigan as a graduate assistant from 2015-16 before joining him at Minnesota in 2017. Minnesota is currently getting ready to welcome Northwestern for the penultimate game of the season.

After Saturday’s loss to Penn State, Fleck said he needed to watch the film while working to figure out what went wrong in the effort. He cited issues on all sides of the ball while evaluating things during his postgame press conference.

“Unacceptable in all three phases,” Fleck said. “I mean, I just mentioned the first half. I mean, that’s – you’re not going to win any game in the Big Ten, and it doesn’t matter who you play, but especially coming here, playing a team that’s playing really well right now. You’re not going to beat a team, or even come close to beating a team like that, if you play the way we did.”

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