UCF Football: 3 reasons Scott Frost should be 2017 Coach of the Year
By Zach Bigalke
1. Frost built the top-ranked offense in the country in 2017
After helping engineer some of the most dangerous offenses in the country while a position coach and offensive coordinator at Oregon, Scott Frost came to Orlando and within two years turned the woebegone Knights into the top-rated offense in the country. Too many are quick to dismiss the quality and depth of the American Athletic Conference, but there is no denying that Frost created a juggernaut that lights up the scoreboard.
In 2015, when UCF went 0-12, they ranked 125th out of 127 FBS teams in scoring. That winless year, the Knights averaged only 13.9 points per game as they dropped one contest after another. After taking over the program last season, Frost instantly turned around that offense as UCF averaged 28.8 points. In the span of a year, the team immediately doubled its production.
That presaged big things for 2017, and the Knights delivered in emphatic fashion. UCF nearly doubled their production yet again, ranking first in the nation with an average of over seven touchdowns per game. Not once were they held under 30 points per game, as McKenzie Milton and company crushed every defense they faced along the way.
A Coach of the Year is one who wrings every bit of potential out of his players. Nobody did that better in 2017 than Scott Frost.