Stanford didn’t win the Pac-12 championship, but it did collect the lion’s share of the conference’s top awards Tuesday.

Heisman Trophy finalist Bryce Love was chosen the Pac-12’s Offensive Player of the Year, David Shaw was named Coach of the Year and Walker Little was selected Freshman Offensive Co-Player of the Year.

The coaching honor was the fourth for Shaw — 2011, ’12 and a shared award with Washington State’s Mike Leach in 2015. The Cardinal won the Pac-12 North title but lost 31-28 to USC in the conference title game at Levi’s Stadium on Friday night.

Love was one of five Stanford players named to the All-Pac-12 first team. He was joined by Dalton Schultz (tight end), Nate Herbig (guard), Harrison Phillips (defensive tackle) and Justin Reid (defensive back).

Three Stanford players received second-team honors: David Bright (guard), Quenton Meeks (defensive back) and Jake Bailey (punter).

Honorable mentions were given to the Cardinal’s Jesse Burkett (center), A.T. Hall (offensive tackle), Little (offensive tackle), Bobby Okereke (inside linebacker), Cameron Scarlett (running back), Brandon Simmons (special teams), Jet Toner (kicker) and JJ Arcega-Whiteside (wide receiver).

Cal didn’t have any players on the first or second teams, but did have four with honorable mentions: Devante Downs (inside linebacker), Patrick Laird (running back), James Looney (defensive end) and Patrick Mekari (offensive tackle).

Washington’s Vita Vea was named the Defensive Player of the Year, J.J. Taylor of Arizona shared the offensive freshman award with Little and Taylor’s Arizona teammate Colin Schooler was selected the Freshman Defensive Player of the Year.

Taggert leaving Oregon: Willie Taggart is returning to the Sunshine State, this time as head coach at Florida State.

Taggart, 41, has agreed to become the Seminoles’ head coach, replacing Jimbo Fisher. Taggart told his Oregon players during a team meeting Tuesday that he is leaving.

The Bradenton native coached at South Florida for four seasons before going to Oregon. Fisher resigned Friday to accept the head-coaching job at Texas A&M.

Taggart has a 47-50 career record, 7-5 this season.

Heupel to Central Florida: UCF announced that Josh Heupel will be the Knights’ head coach. The move comes about 72 hours after Scott Frost announced Saturday he was leaving UCF to become the head coach at Nebraska.

Heupel, who has been the offensive coordinator at Missouri the past two seasons, inherits a program that finished 12-0 to win the American Athletic Conference title. The Knights will play Auburn in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Jan. 1.

Heupel will watch the game from a booth. UCF is working on logistics that would allow Frost to coach it.

Briefly: New UCLA head coach Chip Kelly has hired defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro and linebackers coach Don Pellum, both of whom worked on his staff at Oregon. Azzinaro also worked under Kelly with the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and 49ers before becoming Cal’s defensive line coach this season.. ... New Arizona State head coach Herm Edwards has promoted Billy Napier to associate head coach and offensive coordinator while retaining the Sun Devils’ offensive staff. ... Virginia linebacker Micah Kiser was awarded the Campbell Trophy, commonly referred to as the academic Heisman, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs with a 3.42 GPA and maintaining a 4.0 while working toward a master’s in higher education.