Scott Frost ended Saturday night in Orlando on his couch, answering a flood of text messages. They all wanted to congratulate him after UCF upset No. 2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime, the program's first victory ever over a top-five team. Country singer Casey Donahew.
Todd Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs. And Nebraska legend Tom Osborne, the coach who won a national championship in 1997 with Frost at quarterback. "It was a good nightcap to sit down on my couch and see all the people that reached out," Frost told CBS Sports.
Saturday marked Frost's first win over a ranked opponent since Jan. 1, 2018, when the undefeated Knights beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl and declared themselves national champions just hours before he left for his alma mater to become the next head coach at Nebraska. A lot has changed since that ill-fated decision eight years ago. Frost has learned a lot, too.
Now he's back doing what he loves, at a school he adores, and where he believes he can win, just as he did during his first stint leading UCF. Frost isn't interested in revisiting his time at Nebraska, but it still hangs over the storyline, especially when redemption comes up. He went 0-19 against ranked opponents before Saturday's wild win, including a 0-14 run at Nebraska.
It wasn't always like that for Frost, who turned UCF into a powerhouse before leaving for Nebraska. "Again, you're kind of bordering on getting me to talk about something I don't wanna talk about, but there's a lot of good coaches. There's a lot that goes into winning," Frost said.
"There has to be alignment at the university, you have to get support from campus, you have to have a good AD, you have to have the right players, you have to have the right assistants. You have to be at the right place at the right time."And there's been a lot of coaches that have done average jobs and won a lot because they're in the right place at the right time. And there's been a lot of coaches that have done everything they possibly can do and haven't won and lost their jobs.
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