Murphy, the former Texas and Duke quarterback, transferred to Oregon State this past offseason. The No. 82 overall player in the 247Sports transfer rankings finished the season with 1,805 passing yards and a touchdown-to-interception ratio of 9-to-8. Murphy completed 58.1% of his passes and Oregon State finished the season 2-10.

New Auburn Tigers head coach Alex Golesh will hit the ground running as he tries to hold on to key players while filling critical needs in the transfer portal.

New Auburn head coach Alex Golesh wants the program to be built on high school recruiting. In his mind, there’s enough talent in the 250-mile radius around Auburn to build an elite roster with those players out of high school. That doesn’t mean he’s against using the transfer portal, but he doesn’t want to depend on it.

Auburn football is expected to lose a second member of its wide receiver room to the transfer portal with Horatio Fields planning to depart.