Auburn parted ways with head coach Gus Malzahn Sunday.
He was 68-35 in eight seasons at Auburn and won the 2013 Southeastern Conference championship.
Malzahn also served as Auburn’s offensive coordinator from 2009-11, winning the 2010 BCS national championship and SEC title.
Former Vol and current Auburn defensive coordinator Kevin Steele has been named interim head coach for the Tigers.
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Steele played linebacker at Tennessee from 1978-79.
He began his coaching career as a student assistant in 1980 under Johnny Majors for the Vols.
Steele was a graduate assistant (1981) and outside linebackers coach (1982) at Tennessee. From 1987-88 he was defensive backs coach under Majors at UT.
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