After multiple reports indicating the likelihood of the move, it's official: UCF offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Jeff Lebby has been hired by new Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin, the Rebels football program announced Thursday afternoon.

Lebby joined the UCF football staff in December 2017 as quarterbacks coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator in the summer of 2019. In two seasons with the Knights, Lebby has helped the UCF offense average at least 43 points per game and ranking among the top five teams in the country in total offense in both years.

In the past two seasons, UCF has handily defeated the Florida Atlantic Owls, the former home of Kiffin, first 56-36 in Orlando in 2018 then 48-14 this past year. Now, Lebby joins Kiffin in Oxford, Mississippi as part of the Rebels coaching staff.

Lebby in 2018 helped lead quarterback McKenzie Milton to his second American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year honor, after throwing for 2,663 yards and 25 touchdowns on a .592 completion percentage. Milton’s passing efficiency rating of 160.97 was fourth-best in UCF history and ranked ninth in the nation. Milton ranked third nationally with 15.57 yards per completion and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting.

Then in 2019 Lebby and the UCF offense turned to a true freshman signal-caller in rookie Dillon Gabriel. The Hawaii product broke the Knights’ freshman record for passing yardage by completing 222 of his 374 throws for 3,393 yards and 27 TDs (against only seven interceptions). Gabriel ranks ninth nationally in passing yards and fifth in yards per completion—and lists 17th in passing efficiency at 155.6 rating points. The UCF attack stands fourth in total offense (536.6, best in Knights history) and sixth in scoring (43.0).

Lebby came to Orlando after one season in 2017 as an offensive coordinator at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. He helped lead Southeastern to a 5-0 conference mark and a berth in the NAIA playoffs. Southeastern had the No. 1 scoring offense and the No. 3 total offense in the NAIA in 2017.

Prior to joining the Southeastern staff, Lebby served in various capacities on the football staff at Baylor. He was the passing game coordinator and offensive recruiting coordinator for two years. He coached the running backs for five years. Prior to those roles, Lebby was the assistant director of football operations in charge of offensive quality control, while also serving as the team’s liaison to the NFL.

In five seasons as running backs coach, Lebby coached five 1,000-yard rushers. Baylor’s 2015 squad ranked No. 2 in the nation in rushing offense, while two Bears went over 1,000 yards that season. Lebby earned 2013 FootballScoop Running Backs Coach of the Year honors after coaching Baylor’s first back-to-back 1,000-yard rushers.

Prior to his tenure at Baylor, Lebby served as the offensive line/tight ends coach at Victoria Memorial (Texas) High School. Lebby played high school football for his father Mike Lebby at Andrews (Texas) High and earned all-state honors as a senior. He signed with Oklahoma, but an injury ended his playing career. He then spent four years with the Sooners as a student assistant coach—and that’s when he first met Josh Heupel.

Lebby earned a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma in 2007.