Mike Lynch has coached extensively in the Midwest and even had a stint as an Atlantic Coast Conference offensive coordinator.
He's poised to join the most prestigious program of his career, FootballScoop has learned.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Lynch, most recently the offensive line coach in Jeff Choate's Nevada Wolf Pack program, is joining the first-year staff of new Michigan Wolverines had coach Kyle Whittingham.
Though he won't be an on-field position coach for Michigan, Lynch will serve in an offensive analyst role in the new regime for Whittingham and the offense of former Utah and just-hired Michigan offensive coordinator Jason Beck.
Previously, Lynch coached multiple seasons at Mid-American Conference program Bowling Green before he then was tabbed to run the offense of ACC resident Syracuse less than a decade ago.
A California native, Lynch also has coached at the Football Championship Subdivision level for longstanding powerhouse program Montana. He's a former Grizzlies player who also coached at the FCS level for Eastern Illinois.
Whittingham is in charge at Michigan following his hiring late last month. Stepping away from Utah, Whittingham made clear he wasn't done with coaching despite his record-setting, two-decades-plus run atop the Utah Utes.
With Michigan needing a high-character leader with zero NCAA skeletons, it turned to Whittingham after firing Sherrone Moore amidst his disgraceful scandal that saw Moore arrested on felony charges and also outed for having a long-running, illicit relationship with a Michigan Athletics subordinate.
Moore is due in court later this month for the next step in his judicial process.
Whittingham, meanwhile, is assembling a Michigan staff with plenty of ties to Utah and the Midwest. Beck comes after being Whittingham's most recent offensive coordinator at Utah, and he also brings with him offensive line coach Jim Harding, among the most trusted and longest-tenured members of Whittingham's Utah program.
Lynch will work closely with both Beck and Harding for a Michigan program trying to find its footing following Moore's arrest and firing, still smarting from the NCAA investigation into its 2023 College Football Playoff Championship that resulted in the NCAA's longest-ever "Show-Cause" penalty for former Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh and that saw multiple additional former Michigan staffers penalized and or suspended.
Michigan under Whittingham also is trying to hold together an overall talented roster highlighted by budding superstar quarterback Bryce Underwood.
The NCAA's first-ever single-window Transfer Portal opened Jan. 2 and runs through Jan. 16. All schools are seeking to retain members of their roster while supplementing their 2026 squads beyond the 2026 high school signing class.
Michigan is scheduled to open the Whittingham era Sept. 5, 2026, at home against Lance Taylor's Western Michigan program before hosting Oklahoma a week later in an Big Ten Conference-Southeastern Conference crossover showdown.