Gus Malzahn is taking a unique job in Florida.
According to ESPN, the UCF coach is stepping right down to change into the offensive coordinator at Florida State. UCF ended its season on Friday night time with a house loss to Utah. The defeat dropped the Knights to 4-8 on the season.
Florida State is 2-9 forward of its regular-season finale towards Florida on Saturday night time. The Seminoles have been looking for an offensive coordinator for weeks after coach Mike Norvell fired each offensive coordinator Alex Atkins and defensive coordinator Adam Fuller following a 52-3 loss to Notre Dame.
FSU’s solely wins this season are over Cal and Charleston Southern and the Seminoles have scored greater than 21 factors simply as soon as this season. That got here within the crew’s 41-7 win over the FCS-level Pirates every week in the past.
Malzahn, 60, is taking the route UCLA coach Chip Kelly did lower than a 12 months in the past. Kelly stepped down at UCLA to take the offensive coordinator job at Ohio State forward of the 2024 season.
The former Auburn head coach not too long ago accomplished his fourth season at UCF. The Knights received 9 video games in every of his first two seasons however fell to 6-7 in 2023 earlier than successful simply 4 video games this season. The drop in wins has coincided with UCF’s transfer from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12.
Before UCF, Malzahn was the top coach at Auburn from 2013 by 2020. The Tigers misplaced the BCS title recreation to Florida State in his first season in 2013 and received simply 10 video games as soon as over the following seven seasons. However, Auburn by no means posted a dropping season below Malzahn and was 6-4 in his remaining season.
Malzahn was Auburn’s offensive coordinator when the Tigers received the nationwide title following the 2011 season. He left Auburn to be the coach at Arkansas State for a season after which changed Gene Chizik after one season with the Red Wolves.
