After the most successful season in the program's Football Championship Subdivision tenure, Presbyterian College isn't looking to slow down.
And new head coach Matt Rahl is poised to add some major experience to his inaugural Blue Hose staff.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Mike Babcock, a former UCLA Bruins staffer, among other stops, is joining the Presbyterian program in an senior offensive role.
For Rahl, named head coach this week as replacement for the departed Steve Englehart, Babcock brings immediate depth of experience and big-picture football wisdom.
Babcock spent the 2024 season as the chief lieutenant for then-UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster.
Additionally, Babcock has decade-long experience as an NCAA head coach. He served atop the McKendree University (Illinois) program from 2013-23..
In his playing days, Babcock was a contributing linebacker for the UCLA Bruins as they captured back-to-back conference titles in the 1997-98 seasons. He then started his coaching career at his alma mater and has coached at the University of San Diego, as well as Colorado State University-Pueblo among his other stops.
Presbyterian promoted Rahl into the full-time head coaching post after Englehart departed on the heels of the program's most successful season ever to take over at West Georgia.
The Blue Hose earlier in the 2025 season had NCAA Division I football's longest winning streak at 11 consecutive games; they won their final four games in 2024 and opened the 2025 campaign 7-0.
Englehart was pursued for a number of opportunities before he accepted the West Georgia post earlier this month. The Wolves needed a new coach after Joel Taylor returned to Mercer. Formerly the Bears defensive coordinator, Taylor accepted the head coaching position at Mercer when Mike Jacobs departed for the Football Bowls Subdivision job at Toledo. Jacobs is an Ohio native and former Ohio State Buckeyes offensive lineman.