TCU is close to finalizing the hire of UConn offensive coordinator Gordon Sammis as the next play caller for the Horned Frogs. Sammis will take over for Kendal Briles, who accepted the OC job at South Carolina earlier in the month. He’ll be the third offensive coordinator for Sonny Dykes since landing in Fort Worth ahead of the 2022 season. Garrett Riley was the OC in 2022.  

UConn was 12th in the FBS in scoring offense in 2025 at 36.9 points per game. TCU ranked 43rd while scoring 30.8 points per game. The Huskies were one of the top passing offenses in the country this year, ranking two spots ahead of the Horned Frogs at seventh while averaging 301.1 yards per game in 2025. That’s good news for a TCU program hoping to keep quarterback Josh Hoover happy heading into his senior year. 

Sammis was an offensive lineman at Virginia from 2003-07 and began his coaching career there as a GA. He worked his way through the non-FBS ranks with stops at Columbia, Lafayette, and William & Mary before landing at UConn as the offensive line coach in 2022. He became the offensive coordinator in 2023 and is currently the interim head coach after Jim Mora took the head coaching job at Colorado State. 

TCU is 8-4 on the season and can reach the nine-win mark for the second year in a row if the Frogs knock off USC in the Alamo Bowl later this month. Dykes is 35-17 in four seasons in charge, including a 23-13 mark in conference play.