Nebraska Football: 5 reasons Scott Frost will bring Huskers back to greatness

1. Scott Frost knows how to build a high-powered offense quickly

Two years removed from a trip to the Fiesta Bowl, UCF plummeted to the depths of the FBS in 2015. A large part for the fall was due to an anemic offense that ranked 125th out of 127 teams in the top division of the NCAA. That year, the Knights averaged fewer than two touchdowns per game as the losses kept coming.

That opened the door for Frost to arrive in Orlando. Prior to landing his first head coaching gig, Frost spent seven years in Eugene on the staff of one of the nation’s most potent offenses. After four years as the wide receivers coach under Chip Kelly, Frost was promoted to offensive coordinator when Mark Helfrich took over for Kelly in 2013.

He helped turn Marcus Mariota into a Heisman winner and was instrumental in building the team that played for the national championship in 2014. That run of success was a big reason why UCF took a chance on Frost, and his arrival immediately turned around the Knights offense. Their productivity more than doubled in 2016, as UCF scored 28.8 points per game.

Even more impressively, the Knights nearly doubled their scoring average again in 2017. On their way to an 11-0 regular season and a spot in the American Athletic Conference championship game, UCF led the nation in scoring with an average of more than 48 points per game. In two years, Frost created a juggernaut that scores nearly five more touchdowns per game than it did during its nadir year in 2015. He could quickly rebuild a once-proud Nebraska offense.