\u201cWe\u2019re Focusing On the Buckeyes\u201d: Brian Hartline Says Ohio State\u2019s CFP Run is \u201cFront of My Mind\u201d As He Navigates Postseason As USF\u2019s Head Coach<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\tFor Northwestern, though, landing Kelly is a splashy hire as the Wildcats look to elevate an offense that ranked just 14th of 18 Big Ten teams with 23.4 points per game this season.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tBefore his one-year stints with the Raiders and Buckeyes, Kelly was the head coach at UCLA from 2018-23. He was previously the head coach of the NFL\u2019s San Francisco 49ers in 2016 and Philadelphia Eagles from 2013-15. Kelly was previously the head coach (2009-12) and offensive coordinator (2007-08) at Oregon, where he became known as one of college football\u2019s most innovative offensive minds. Before that, Kelly was a longtime assistant at New Hampshire \u2013 his alma mater \u2013 where he coached\u00a0Day during his own playing career.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tKelly replaces Zach Lujan, Northwestern\u2019s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the past two years, whose contract is not being renewed.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tBoth of Ohio State\u2019s coordinators from its 2024 national championship team have now already changed jobs twice in less than a year. Jim Knowles, who left Ohio State after last season to become the new defensive coordinator at Penn State, became the new defensive coordinator at Tennessee<\/a> earlier this month; new Penn State head coach Matt Campbell reportedly hired D\u2019Anton Lynn away from USC<\/a> on Monday\u00a0to be Penn State\u2019s new DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chip Kelly is returning to the Big Ten, but not to Ohio State. Northwestern has hired the former…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809984604106952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}