And the inaugural winner of the Steve Spurrier Award for the top first-year head coach in all of college football is (drum roll, please) …
“Coach Gus is up for the award and he’s got an excellent shot down there at UCF,” Spurrier said recently when I asked him about Malzahn’s chances of duplicating the success Spurrier has traditionally had when taking over new programs. “Every first-year coach has a shot at it (including former UCF coach Josh Heupel, now at Tennessee) . … I’m looking forward to honoring a guy that comes in his first year and says, ‘Hey, we can win here now.