Rutgers is going to need a new offensive coordinator.
Just one year into the Chris Ash Era in Piscataway, offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer is leaving for an assistant-coaching job at Texas, according to multiple reports.
Mehringer is re-teaming with Tom Herman, newly named head coach of the Longhorns. Herman spent two seasons as the head coach at Houston, where Mehringer was the wide receivers coach in 2015 before becoming the Scarlet Knights' offensive coordinator.
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Mehringer's Rutgers offense was awful this season, ranking dead last in the country in total offense, averaging 283.2 yards a game, and second to last in scoring offense, averaging 15.7 points a game.
The Knights were routinely pounded by elite competition, losing four games against teams that finished ranked in the top six of the College Football Playoff rankings — No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Washington, No. 5 Penn State and No. 6 Michigan — by a combined 223-13 score. Rutgers scored seven or fewer points in six of its 10 losses this season.
The Knights now need to find a replacement, who will be their eighth offensive coordinator in the past eight seasons.