Now Frost is back at UCF for a second chance at the right place. He lasted just more than four seasons at Nebraska, with a 16-31 record, then spent 2024 as an analyst with the Los Angeles Rams. Frost said Tuesday that he didn’t want to talk about his time at Nebraska, but questions were impossible to avoid with how it connects to his UCF story.

Scott Frost’s celebrated return as coach at UCF comes with the backdrop of a failed tenure at Nebraska, the alma mater he said he didn’t want to talk about at Big 12 football media days.