Georgia Football: 3 intriguing options to be the next offensive coordinator

1. Jeff Lebby, Offensive Coordinator & QB Coach of UCF

Jeff Lebby is one of my more coveted options to be the next Bulldog offensive coordinator. He is relatively young and would bring a new, fresh perspective to the Bulldogs offense.

Lebby has been on staff at UCF since the beginning of the 2018 season, and before that, he spent a year as the offensive coordinator at Southeastern University.

In his one year there, he helped lift Southeastern to the number one scoring offense in the NAIA and the number three total offense.

Despite moving from the NAIA to division one college football, his offensive schemed did not miss a beat as UCF has been one of the more explosive and high-scoring offenses in all of college football.

In his first year as offensive coordinator, the Knights went undefeated until they lost to LSU in their bowl game. Throughout the year, however, his offense would put up over 520 yards of offense on average while scoring around 43 points per game on average.

Lebby’s offense was very good in both the passing game and in the rushing game.

In year one, Lebby had his offense throw for 3,300 yards on the season. On a per-game basis, UCF was throwing for 257 yards per game and 8.5 yards per pass attempt.

Even with a bunch of passing factored in, Lebby still ran the ball a lot too and did so efficiently.

His offense ran for over 3,400 yards that first year and averaged 265 yards per game on the ground and 5.8 yards per carry.

In his second year this year as the offensive coordinator, Lebby has his offense operating at even better heights. In the second year, his offense has increased their yards per game by 30 to over 550 yards per game and has increased their points per game to 44 points per game.

Through the first seven games, the Knights have rushed for 1,486 yards and thrown for 2,391 yards. They’re rushing for 212 yards per game at a clip of 4.8 yards per carry.

Those aren’t great rushing stats, I know, but give him a back like Zamir White, and I’m betting those numbers improve significantly.

When they take to the air, though, they shine. The Knights are throwing for 341 yards per game and almost 10 yards per attempt.

Putting that kind of passing scheme in with a running back corps like Georgia has, and the Bulldogs offense could be one of the best, if not the best, in the country.

If UCF were once again going undefeated, it might be hard to get Lebby to leave, but they have already lost two games this year, and Lebby might find that moving to the nation’s premier conference to run his offense in could help propel his career to the next level.

Pairing Lebby’s offense with the kind of elite talent that Georgia regularly brings in year after year could be very enticing to Lebby as well.

Lebby would bring an outside voice into a team that is running a slightly outdated offense.

Giving the offense a Lebby-led update and combining it with what is year in and year out an elite defense could very well put Georgia over the hump it has experienced with Jim Chaney and James Coley at the controls of the offense the past few years.