UCF and Scott Frost reunite.
According to the Orlando Sentinel and other reports, Frost will be the Knights’ next head coach. UCF was looking for a coach after Gus Malzahn resigned as offensive coordinator at Florida State.
Frost, 49, was UCF’s head coach in 2016 and 2017. He was hired to replace George O’Leary after UCF went 0-12 in 2015 and the Knights promptly went 6-7 and headed to a bowl game in Frost’s first season. In his second, UCF went 13-0 and defeated Auburn to win the Peach Bowl and cap off an undefeated season after missing the College Football Playoff.
Frost left UCF after that season to become head coach at Nebraska in a stint that didn’t go nearly as well as Cornhusker fans had hoped. His teams never won more than five games in one season. Frost was fired three games into the 2022 season after Nebraska started 1-2 and lost at home to Georgia Southern.
The former Nebraska quarterback was retained for 2022 despite a six-game losing streak that ended the 2021 season. During that losing streak, Nebraska announced that Frost would be back for a fifth season on a restructured contract as four of his assistant coaches were fired before the end of the season.
Frost served as an offensive analyst on Sean McVay’s staff for the Los Angeles Rams this season. Before taking the UCF job, Frost served as Oregon’s offensive coordinator for three seasons and before that as the team’s wide receivers coach for three seasons.
Frost doesn’t inherit a UCF situation that’s nearly as dire this time around. The Knights won nine games in each of Malzahn’s two seasons, but were 6-7 in their first season in the Big 12 in 2023 and 4-8 in 2024 despite the excellence of RB RJ Harvey. He rushed 232 times for 1,577 yards and 22 TDs, but UCF’s QBs combined to complete just 58% of their passes for fewer than 2,400 yards. The Knights went just 2-7 in Big 12 play, ending the season with a home loss to Utah. The next day, Malzahn resigned to take the job at Florida State.
