Graham Harrell

Biography

Legendary Texas high school and Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell was announced on Jan. 28, 2025, as ACU’s associate head coach and offensive coordinator. He will also coach Wildcat quarterbacks. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Purdue in the Big Ten during the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Harrell, announced on January 15 as a member of the 2025 induction class into the College Football Hall of Fame, is very familiar with ACU and its football program. His father, former head coach of Ennis High School Sam Harrell, played football at ACU under head coaches Dewitt Jones and Ted Sitton, graduated from ACU in 1979, and won Class 4A state championships in 2000, 2001, and 2004. His mother, Kathy (Stanton '80) Harrell, is also an ACU graduate, and his youngest brother, Clark, graduated from ACU in 2011 after playing for the Wildcats from 2008-2010. Harrell has coached at five Power 4 universities since 2014, working as an offensive quality control coach at Oklahoma State in 2009. He spent the next five years in the NFL and Canadian Football League before retiring and getting back into coaching. He coached with his Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach at Washington State in 2014 and 2015 before moving to North Texas, where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2016-18. He held that position at USC for three seasons (2019-21), spent one year in the same role at West Virginia in 2022, and spent the last two seasons at Purdue. Harrell solidifie