BREAKING: Cal fires offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and offensive line coach Angus McClure

Justin Wilcox will be looking for new offensive coaches in the 2022 season.

The inevitable has arrived, surprisingly before the end of the season.

Cal offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and offensive line coach Angus McClure are out. Cal coach Justin Wilcox made the call to fire both prior to Saturday’s Big Game against Stanford.

"I felt these changes to our coaching staff were needed and made them with the best interest of our football program in mind," Wilcox said. "We thank Bill and Angus for their contributions and the investments they made in Cal football, and we wish them all of the best in their future endeavors."

Cal confirmed that other members of the coaching staff will take on McClure’s and Musgrave’s duties for the remaining two games.

Bruce Feldman @BruceFeldmanCFB

SOURCE: Cal OC Bill Musgrave and OL coach Angus McClure have been let go. Cal, which is on a six-game losing streak, is 3-7 and 1-6 in Pac-12 play.

Adam Rittenberg @ESPNRittenberg

#Cal offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and offensive line coach Angus McClure are out, a Pac-12 source told ESPN. Cal is 96th nationally in scoring and has struggled in protection this season. Bears play Stanford this week.

The Musgrave/McClure era finishes with some very rough marks. The Cal offense never got going.

• Cal has not improved their scoring at all from Beau Baldwin, going from ~21 points a game to ~24 in 2021 and ~23 in 2022, a bottom 40 mark in FBS.

• Cal went 0-12 in true road games outside the Bay Area.

• Cal failed to score more than 17 points in seven of those last eight true road games.

• Cal went 0-8 in one-score games against Power 5 opponents the last two years, not once engineering a 4th-quarter come-from-behind victory. In the Bill Musgrave/Angus McClure era in Berkeley, Cal went 2-11 in one-score games.

• The Cal offensive line has bottomed out, grading as one of the worst in college football in 2022. Cal is averaging 3.5 yards per rush (106th in FBS) and is averaging 98 rushing yards a game (120th in FBS). Cal has given up 30 sacks, 108th in FBS.

• After seeming to turn the corner against Arizona, the Cal offense has managed only 20 points COMBINED in the first half during its six game losing streak, getting shut out three times.

Cal is in the midst of their longest losing streak since 2013 and will try to avoid their worst record since that season when they play Stanford on Saturday.