{"id":117724,"date":"2021-02-15T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T17:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=117724"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:27:45","slug":"gus-malzahn-named-ucf-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/gus-malzahn-named-ucf-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Malzahn Named UCF Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gus Malzahn, who led Auburn to the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game following the 2013 season in the first of eight straight years his Tigers qualified for bowl games, has been named the ninth head football coach at UCF. UCF vice president and director of athletics Terry Mohajir<\/a> made the announcement today.<\/p>\n

In eight years as head football coach at Auburn, Malzahn also led the Tigers to a Southeastern Conference Championship, two SEC West Division titles and six New Year’s Day bowl selections among those eight postseason appearances. Malzahn, 77-38 in nine seasons overall as a head coach, has helped teams to seven conference championship game appearances in his 15 seasons as a collegiate coach, including winning a pair of SEC Championships at Auburn (2010, 2013) and a Sun Belt Championship at Arkansas State in 2012.<\/p>\n

In the final Associated Press rankings his Auburn teams finished second (2013), 10th (2017), 22nd (2014) and 24th (2016).<\/p>\n

“When I started the search process, it became very evident very quickly that, based on the conversations I had with the players last week and what they told me were looking for, Gus Malzahn was the guy for the job,” says Mohajir. “He has won at every level, and he has coached a Heisman Trophy winner and NFL draft picks. There has never been a better time for Coach Malzahn to lead this program than right now.”<\/p>\n

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