[2] Prior to that, he had served as the head coach at Peru State as well as several college and teams in Kansas and Oklahoma.
As a senior at Nebraska, Held coached the Huskers as a student assistant in 1997, helping them to a 13–0 record and a national title.
[3] In 2001, Held became the youngest head football coach in the country (age 26), and he led the Peru State Bobcats to a 5–5 record and a second-place league finish in his only season.
He was part of a staff that led the nation’s most improved team in 2016 and posted the first perfect regular season in UCF and American Athletic Conference history in 2017.
Adrian Killins Jr. averaged 6.8 yards per carry en route to earning all-conference accolades as a sophomore.
Held returned to his alma mater, Nebraska, in December 2017, when he was one of the first hires on Scott Frost's Husker staff.