Gus Malzahn is taking a different job in Florida.

According to ESPN, the UCF coach is stepping down to become the offensive coordinator at Florida State. UCF ended its season on Friday night with a home loss to Utah. The defeat dropped the Knights to 4-8 on the season.

Florida State is 2-9 ahead of its regular-season finale against Florida on Saturday night. The Seminoles have been searching for an offensive coordinator for weeks after coach Mike Norvell fired both offensive coordinator Alex Atkins and defensive coordinator Adam Fuller following a 52-3 loss to Notre Dame.

FSU’s only wins this season are over Cal and Charleston Southern and the Seminoles have scored more than 21 points just once this season. That came in the team’s 41-7 win over the FCS-level Pirates a week ago.

Malzahn, 60, is taking the route UCLA coach Chip Kelly did less than a year ago. Kelly stepped down at UCLA to take the offensive coordinator job at Ohio State ahead of the 2024 season.

The former Auburn coach recently completed his fourth season at UCF. The Knights won nine games in each of his first two seasons but fell to 6-7 in 2023 before winning just four games this season. The drop in wins has coincided with UCF’s move from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12.

Before UCF, Malzahn was the head coach at Auburn from 2013 through 2020. The Tigers lost the BCS title game to Florida State in his first season in 2013 and won just 10 games once over the next seven seasons. However, Auburn never posted a losing season under Malzahn and was 6-4 in his final season.

Malzahn was Auburn’s offensive coordinator when the Tigers won the national title following the 2011 season. He left Auburn to be the coach at Arkansas State for a season and then replaced Gene Chizik after one season with the Red Wolves.