COLUMBIA, Mo. • Add another name to the Missouri candidate pool. Athletics director Mack Rhoades was expected to interview Cal’s Sonny Dykes on Tuesday in Denver, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Post-Dispatch. Chris Gervino of Columbia’s KOMU, the NBC affiliate, reported the same on Twitter.
Dykes was mentioned as a candidate at Houston twice when Rhoades was hiring coaches there in 2011 and 2014.
In his third year at Cal, Dykes has the Bears going to their first bowl game since 2011. The Bears are 13-23 overall under the 46-year-old Dykes, improving from 1-11 in 2013 to 5-7 last year to 7-5 this season.