Teryl Austin (born March 3, 1965) is an American football coach and former player. Austin is currently the defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators football team that represents the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Austin was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt Panthers football) from 1984 to 1987, where he was a four-year letterman and three-year starter. He played in the 1984 Fiesta Bowl and the 1987 Bluebonnet Bowl. He went on to play one season with the Montreal Machine of the World League of American Football in 1991.

Austin then began a career in coaching, landing a position as a graduate assistant at Penn State (Penn State Nittany Lions football) in 1991. In 1993, he accompanied fellow Penn State assistant Jim Caldwell (Jim Caldwell (American football)) to Wake Forest (Wake Forest Demon Deacons football) where he served as secondary coach. Austin went on to serve on the coaching staffs at Syracuse (Syracuse Orange football) and Michigan (Michigan Wolverines football) before joining the Seattle Seahawks staff in 2003, helping Seattle advance to Super Bowl XL in 2006.

He joined the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff as coach of defensive backs in 2007. He helped the team reach Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.

On February 12, 2010, it was announced that Austin had been hired as the defensive coordinator for the University of Florida football team.