{"id":724018,"date":"2026-02-02T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:46:13","slug":"fsu-offensive-coordinator-ex-ucf-coach-gus-malzahn-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724018\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU offensive coordinator, ex-UCF coach Gus Malzahn retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Florida State offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn announced his retirement from coaching Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old Malzahn spent last season with the Seminoles after serving as head coach at UCF (2021-24), Auburn (2013-2020) and Arkansas State (2012). He won the 2010 national championship as an offensive coordinator at Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 35 years, it\u2019s time for me to step away from coaching,\u201d Malzahn said in a statement. \u201cI am excited to spend more time with my family and focus on the next chapter of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike Norvell promoted co-offensive coordinator and receivers coach Tim Harris Jr. to be the Seminoles\u2019 offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State led the Atlantic Coast Conference in total offense and rushing offense in 2025. Florida State had nine 400-yard outputs in 2025, including back-to-back games with more than 700 yards for the first time in school history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Coach Malzahn for his effort and dedication to our program over the last 14 months,\u201d Norvell said. \u201cHe did a wonderful job coordinating our offense and calling plays in 2025, and he has set a strong foundation for us to continue building on in 2026 behind the coordination of Tim Harris and the multiple other assistant coaches who are returning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Florida State offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn announced his retirement from coaching Monday. The 60-year-old Malzahn spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,4713,7,49,48,9,4708],"class_list":{"0":"post-724018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ucf-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116001818883157585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}