NORMAN, Okla. (KFDA) - University of Oklahoma head football coach Brent Venables named Ben Arbuckle the team’s next offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach this week.
Arbuckle is an alumnus of both the Canadian High School and West Texas A&M football programs.
“To have this opportunity to join the University of Oklahoma football program, with its longstanding tradition of excellence, was so enticing to me and I wanted to be a part of it more than anything,” Arbuckle said via press release. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be in this situation... I want to put our guys in position to be successful at all times, and ultimately go out there and be explosive and put a product on the field that Sooner Nation is proud of.”
Arbuckle has rapidly ascended the coaching ranks since the end of his playing career.
After brief stops at Houston Baptist University and Seminole High School, Arbuckle was hired at Western Kentucky as an offensive quality control staffer in 2021.
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He was promoted to offensive coordinator the very next year, before Washington State hired him for the same position, just one year after his promotion at WKU.
Arbuckle spent the last two years with the Cougars, leading one of the best offenses in the country in both years.
Ben Arbuckle’s Washington State tenure (2023-2024)
| Category | Value | FBS Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Passing yards per game | 302.7 | 10th |
| Passing touchdowns | 57 | 10th |
| Touchdown/interception ratio | 3.56 | 12th |
| Passing efficiency rating | 154.5 | 13th |
| Offensive points per game | 34.2 | 20th |
| Touchdowns from scrimmage | 101 | 22nd |
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