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Seth Littrell

American football player and coach (born 1978)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ22095602
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James Seth Littrell (born July 24, 1978) is an American football coach and former player. He is a senior offensive analyst at the University of Tennessee. Littrell served as the head football coach at the University of North Texas from 2016 to 2022. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Oklahoma for part of the 2024 season.

Littrell attended the University of Oklahoma, where he played four years as a fullback and was a team captain on the Oklahoma Sooners football team that won the 2000 national championship. He graduated in 2001 with a degree in communications and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. His father, Jimmy, also played fullback at OU and won two national championships in 1974 and 1975.

Early life

Littrell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and attended Muskogee High School. He played fullback and linebacker where he rushed for 1,385 yards and 29 touchdowns his senior year. He was named first team all state as a linebacker.

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“Seth Littrell” enters the record as american football player and coach (born 1978). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Seth, Littrell and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Seth Littrell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.