Is Missouri football OC Kirby Moore interviewing for Washington State job?
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Missouri football offensive coordinator Kirby Moore has seemingly emerged as a potential candidate to fill the open head coach position at Washington State. A video was posted to Twitter by Spokesman-Review reporter Greg Woods of Moore arriving at the airport Wednesday in Pullman, Washington, which is where Washington State is based.
That has sparked an online game of ‘Where’s Kirby?’
Several outlets in Pullman, including 247Sports Washington State reporter Jamey Vinnick, reported that Moore was in Pullman and seemingly interviewing for the open head coaching position with the Cougars, which was left vacant after Jimmy Rogers left to replace Penn State-bound Matt Cambell as the head coach at Iowa State.
PowerMizzou, the 247Sports outlet in Columbia, reported that sources said Moore was not in Pullman on Wednesday.
So, what do we know? Let’s try and parse through the available info.
Moore is from Prosser, Washington, and has appeared on hot boards as a candidate to fill the open head coaching position at both Wazzu and Oregon State, as well as the open offensive coordinator job at Oregon, left vacant by now-Kentucky head coach Will Stein. Oregon State has since hired Alabama assistant JaMarcus Shephard to lead its program.
The video of the vehicle reportedly carrying Moore from the Pullman airport to interview for the Washington State job is far too blurry to concretely say whether or not it’s the Mizzou offensive playcaller.
Missouri OC Kirby Moore just arrived at the airport in Pullman. Looks like he’s a candidate for the WSU job. pic.twitter.com/FAHvHzQkmu
— Greg Woods (@GregWWoods) December 10, 2025
Prosser and Pullman are separated by less than 200 miles. Moore still has family in the area and it’s certainly possible that it was him in the vehicle but he was in the state for a personal visit.
The plane that reportedly brought Moore to Pullman departed from Phoenix. It’s even more unclear why Moore would have been in Arizona before Pullman.
The Tribune was also told that the Tigers began bowl prep this week. Mizzou was allotted 15 additional practices to prepare for the Gator Bowl, with the Tigers set to face Virginia on Dec. 27 in Jacksonville, Florida. You would expect the offensive coordinator to be present for those, especially as the Tigers have important evaluation to do at the quarterback position before next season begins.
Despite the Missouri offense generally regressing this season, it’s not a major surprise that Moore is a candidate for open head coaching roles at the FBS level, especially in the Pacific Northwest.
Moore is a Boise State alum and has spent time coaching at Washington under Chirs Peterson and Fresno State under Jeff Tedford and Kalen DeBoer. His brother, Kellen Moore, is the head coach of the New Orleans Saints in the NFL. Their father, Tom Moore, is a now-retired longtime high school head coach at Prosser High in Washington.
Per his most recent contract, signed shortly before the Tigers beat Ohio State in the 2023 Cotton Bowl after a tremendous first season as Mizzou’s offensive playcaller, Moore is signed with the Tigers through January, 2027.
He earns $1.5 million in total pay per year to call plays for the Tigers, which is $250,000 more than Rogers made with Washington State this year, per USA Today’s coaching salary database.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Moore would be in line for a pay cut, if he took the job in Pullman, but it wouldn’t likely be an enormous raise, either.
Missouri has the nation’s No. 27-ranked total offense this season with 429.3 yards per game, helped greatly by fielding the nation’s No. 8-ranked rushing offense.
Moore has called the plays for Mizzou’s offense since 2023.
Was his third season in Columbia his last? The available information leans more toward Moore not being in Pullman to interview for the Washington State job. That’s not the same as a report that he wasn’t there, which is just currently unconfirmed. But, on-campus visits for interviews are now extremely rare, and there’s very little concrete evidence that Moore was out west.
Time will tell. So far, there is only speculation on Moore’s whereabouts.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Is Missouri football OC Kirby Moore interviewing for Washington State job?
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