Matt Rahl has worn all the coaching hats.

Well, almost all of them. 

A college football assistant coach with more than two decades’ experience, Rahl has filled just about every role within a progam.

Sources tell FootballScoop, Rahl is poised to become the next head coach at Presbyterian College, which saw Steve Englehart depart to take over at West Georgia in the wake of the program’s most successful Football Championship Subdivision season in program history.

In Rahl, the Blue Hose hope to sustain that success with a crucial holdover from the Englehart regime.

He served as the program’s recruiting coordinator as well as its offensive line coach and running game coordinator under Englehart, the AFCA FCS Coach of the Year for the 2025 campaign. The outgoing staff, the current team and the incoming signees all championed Rahl for the position. 

A former Missouri Southern State player and assistant coach, Rahl additionally has crucial Football Bowls Subdivision experience on the staffs at the University of Wyoming and UTEP in various capacities. Rahl has coached both lines of scrimmage — defense and offense — as well as served in an offensive coordinator role, off-the-field personnel roles and been an associate head coach.

By keeping Rahl, Presbyterian positions itself for the potential of sustained success.

Under Englehart in late 2024 and throughout the majority of the 2025 season, the Blue Hose uncorked one of college football’s longest winning streaks at any level; in winning their final four games of last season and first seven of this most recent campaign, the Blue Hose’s 11-game winning binge at once stood as the longest winning streak anywhere in NCAA Division I football — either the FBS or FBS levels.

Presbyterian finished 10-2 in 2025, its most wins ever as an FCS program, and just missed the FCS Playoffs when it suffered late-season losses against Dayton and Davidson.

Presbyterian is expected to announce the hire later today.Â