Interim UConn football coach Gordon Sammis is a candidate for the 2025 Broyles Award.

The award honors the person voted as the top assistant coach in college football. Sammis earned the nomination for his work as the offensive coordinator this season for the Huskies.

He is among 63 candidates for the 30th annual award and now a two-time nominee.

Winners of the prestigious award include some of the biggest names in college football. Consider these now-head coaches who are previous Broyles winners : Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss), Dan Lanning (Oregon), Lincoln Riley (Southern California), Steve Sarkisian (Texas) and Kirby Smart (Georgia).

Sammis was added to the UConn staff by Jim Mora when he took over as head coach of the Huskies prior to the 2022 season. Sammis spent the past two seasons as the offensive coordinator.

Earlier this week, the announcement came that Mora was leaving UConn to become the head coach at Colorado State. With Mora’s departure, Sammis became the logical person to coach the Huskies in their yet-to-be-announced bowl game.

In 2025, Sammis was in charge of the most prolific offense in UConn history, an offense filled with players whose names will dot the Huskies record book.

The regular season is over for the Huskies, who are 9-3, with a chance for the program’s first 10-win season with a bowl game win.

But heading into the final weekend of the season – with other players and teams on the leaderboard still with one last game – UConn’s offense looks impressive in the national standings.

UConn is ranked 15th in scoring offense (36.9 points per game), sixth in passing (301.1 yards per game), 14th in first downs (263) and first in turnovers lost with only two.

The UConn offense – led by the senior trio of quarterback Joe Fagnano, wide receiver Skyler Bell and running back Cam Edwards – set school records for passing yards (3,613) and passing completions (297), and is second in both total offense (5,521 yards) and total points (443).

The Huskies could move into first place in the latter two categories with a bowl game still remaining. The 2025 team is just 209 yards short of the total yardage record and 18 points from the school standard.

With Fagnano throwing for more than 3,000 yards, and Bell and Edwards each gaining more than 1,000 yards at their positions, UConn joined North Texas as being the only two tams in the nation to have a 3k passer/1k rusher/1k receiver in the same season.

No UConn team had accomplished the feat before.

The award will be given out in a ceremony on Feb. 12, in Hot Springs, Ark.

Broyles, who died in 2017, was the head coach at Arkansas from 1958-76 and served as the school’s athletic director from 1974-2007.

For the first time, fans can have a vote in the Broyles Award. Through each stage of the competition – from nominee to semifinalist to finalist and then recipient – fans can vote at BroylesAward.com/Vote

Voting to select the semifinalists closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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