What Is The Update On University Of Tennessee Coaching Search

Central Florida head coach Josh Heupel has emerged every bit a leading candidate to be Tennessee's next head football autobus, according to a study from Austin Toll of VolQuest.com. New UT athletic director Danny White hired Heupel at UCF's new caput motorbus in 2018 afterwards Scott Frost departed for Nebraska.

Heupel is 28-8 in three seasons as UCF'south head coach. He went 12-i in the first flavour after Frost left in 2018, guiding the Knights to a Fiesta Bowl appearance against LSU. Heupel followed his debut in Orlando up past going ten-3 in year ii, ending 2019 with a basin game win. This by season, UCF went 6-4 and lost in the Boca Raton Bowl to cease the year.

The 42-yr former was a star quarterback at Oklahoma, where he led the Sooners to a National Championship afterward transferring from Weber State. Heupel was the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2000. He was too an All-American, the AP Player of the Year, and a Walter Campsite Award winner. Heupel led the Sooners to an undefeated flavour and a national championship with a victory over Florida State in the 2001 Orange Bowl.

Heupel was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2001 NFL Draft just retired after dealing with shoulder tendinitis in his throwing arm. He returned to Oklahoma following his playing career, where he served every bit a graduate banana nether Bob Stoops. Heupel was an assistant under Stoops at Oklahoma from 2006-2014 after serving every bit Arizona's tight ends charabanc in 2005.

Following his time as offensive coordinator at Oklahoma, where he was fired after the 2014 flavor, Heupel made his mode to Utah Land, where he served as banana head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach during the 2015 season. He and then fabricated his mode to Missouri to serve under Barry Odom every bit offensive coordinator in 2016 and 2017, which got him the job at UCF.

White was hired by Tennessee concluding Th afterwards Phillip Fulmer retired in the wake of Jeremy Pruitt beingness fired for cause under his watch.