University of California Athletics

Kyle Cefalo is in his first season at Cal. He was named the wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator on December 13, 2024.

• Cefalo has over a decade of coaching experience at the FBS level. He has made stops at Arkansas State, Maryland and Utah State.

• During his time as an offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach, Cefalo has been part of six teams that have been ranked in the top 25 nationally in both total offense and passing offense. 

• Three of his teams have been ranked in the top 10 in the country in passing offense, including the No. 2-rated squad in passing offense when he was the wide receivers coach and special teams co-coordinator at Arkansas State in 2020.

• During his tenure as offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach at Utah State, Cefalo directed a unit this past season that produced 467.7 yards per game – which ranks seventh in the nation and second in the Mountain West Conference.

• He coached two Associated Press Second Team All-Americans and Biletnikoff Award semifinalists at Arkansas State – Omar Bayless in 2019 and Jonathan Adams Jr. in 2020. Adams was also the 2020 Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year.

• Utah State's Deven Thompkins was also a Biletnikoff Award semifinalist, Third Team All-American and First Team All-Mountain West performer in 2021. He finished second in the country with 1,704 receiving yards and currently plays for the Carolina Panthers. Jalen Royals was a Third Team All-American under Cefalo's guidance in 2023 for the Aggies, when he ranked second nationally with 15 touchdown catches.Royals was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2025.

• Cefalo began his coaching career at Arkansas State in 2013 and spent three seasons there as a graduate assistant – the first of which he worked under then-Red Wolves head coach Bryan Harsin.

• Cefalo was also a grad assistant at Maryland in 2016 before returning to Arkansas State as inside wide receivers coach in 2017. 

• Cefalo moved on to Utah State in 2021 as the Aggies' wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator before becoming the program's co-offensive coordinator in 2023. In 2024, he took over sole offensive coordinator duties for Utah State.

• During his coaching tenure, Cefalo has been involved in 10 bowl games and three conference championships. 

• He played wide receiver for the University of Colorado from 2009-13.

Cefalo File
Hometown: Boston, Mass.
College: Colorado, 2012, Bachelor's in History

Year-By-Year Coaching Positions

Season: Team – Coaching Position

2013: Boise State – Recruiting Intern 
2014-15: Arkansas State – Graduate Assistant
2016: Maryland – Graduate Assistant
2017-18: Arkansas State – Inside Wide Receivers
2019-20: Arkansas State – Special Teams Co-Coordinator/Wide Receivers
2021-22: Utah State – Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers
2023: Utah State – Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers
2024: Utah State – Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers
2025: California – Wide Receivers/Passing Game Coordinator