Sources: Bobby Petrino to be Arkansas offensive coordinator - ESPN

Bobby Petrino has agreed to become the next offensive coordinator at Arkansas, and the two sides are finalizing the deal, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.

An official announcement was expected later Tuesday, and the former Razorbacks head coach is slated to be on campus in Fayetteville on Wednesday.

Petrino spent this season as the Texas A&M offensive coordinator and wasn't retained by new coach Mike Elko after Jimbo Fisher was fired earlier this month. The Aggies defeated the Razorbacks, 34-22, on Sept. 30.

Petrino was head coach at FCS Missouri State before taking the Texas A&M job, and Missouri State almost nearly the Razorbacks during the 2022 season in Fayetteville. Arkansas rallied in the fourth quarter for a 38-27 win.

Petrino, 62, had been seriously considered by school officials leading up to the hire, and sources told ESPN that Petrino had indicated in the recruiting space that he was in the mix for an SEC coordinator job, per ESPN sources.

Earlier this month, Arkansas elected to bring back head coach Sam Pittman amid 4-7 season that ended with a loss to Missouri last week.

Petrino's return would mark a spectacular full-circle moment, as he left Arkansas in 2012 after being fired in the wake of a scandal that saw him hire his lover and mislead his bosses about their relationship. That all came to light after a motorcycle accident, and the story rocked the college sports world and ended Petrino's career at Arkansas after he'd gone 21-5 the previous two seasons.

Over the past two decades, Petrino has developed a dual reputation as one of the sport's most gifted playcallers and someone who found controversy at nearly every stop. Since his firing at Arkansas, and in addition to Missouri State, he has worked at Western