LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold announced Tuesday that Matt Lubick will join the Jayhawks as the program’s Co-Offensive Coordinator and Tight Ends coach.
Lubick, a coaching veteran of nearly 30 years, rejoins Kansas following one season as Nevada’s offensive coordinator in 2024. Lubick served as a senior offensive analyst at Kansas from 2022-23, where he helped the Jayhawk offense thrive. In 2023, Kansas ranked inside the Top 25 in rushing offense (8th), scoring offense (17th), total offense (21st) and team passing efficiency (7th).
“We’re very excited to welcome Matt back to Kansas,” Leipold said. “In his time here, he made valuable contributions to our program and our offensive evolution. Matt is an extremely accomplished coach and will be a great addition to our staff. He is a very dedicated to his craft, and I think he and Coach Zebrowski will work very well together in their roles.”
During the 2024 season at Nevada, Lubick led the Wolfpack offense to five games with at least 400 yards of offense, including a 42-37 win over Oregon State on Oct. 12 and a 534-yard performance in a 49-16 win over Eastern Washington on Sept. 21. Nevada’s offense averaged 5.9 yards per play and had the 10th highest completion percentage in the country at 67.5% in 2024. Lubick was later named Nevada’s nominee for the Broyles Award, an award that honors the top assistant coach in college football.
"I could not be more excited for the opportunity to return to Kansas. Coach Leipold and his staff embraced me as family when I became an analyst in 2022,” Lubick said. “I am beyond grateful for their continued support and love they have given me throughout my recovery of leukemia. The turnaround of Kansas football has been awesome to follow and the best is yet to come. Rock Chalk.”
Lubick spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons at Kansas as a senior analyst and helped Kansas to its first nine-win season and first bowl win since 2008 in 2023 and its first bowl appearance since 2008 in 2022. Prior to arriving at Kansas, Lubick served as the offensive coordinator at Nebraska (2020-21), Washington (2017-18), and Oregon (2016).
The son of longtime Colorado State head coach Sonny Lubick, Matt was a part of two Pac-12 Championship teams in Oregon in 2014 and Washington in 2018 and five teams that finished the season ranked in the top-20, including four 10-win teams. In 2014, Lubick helped Oregon rank in the top-five in scoring offense and total offense, leading the Ducks to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
In 2012, Lubick was named Football Scoop's national Receivers Coach of the Year, as well as being one of three finalists for the American Football Coaches Association's (AFCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year award that same year.
A Bozeman, Montana native, Lubick began his coaching career in 1995 as a student assistant and academic supervisor at Colorado State. In the three decades since, Lubick has risen through the ranks, first becoming an offensive coordinator in 2016, overseeing an Oregon offense which set school records for passing yards (4,687), completions (326) and first downs passing (198). Oregon ranked 13th nationally in completion percentage and 15th in total offense.
In 2017, Lubick took over as the co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Washington, guiding the Huskies to the 2018 Pac-12 Title, consecutive 10-win seasons and appearances in the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl.Lubick spent three seasons as the wide receivers coach at Duke from 2010 to 2012, helping the Blue Devils to a bowl game in 2012, a first for the program since 1994. Lubick was named Football Scoop's national Receivers Coach of the Year, as well as being one of three finalists for the AFCA National Assistant Coach of the Year award.