Colorado's offensive coordinator Sean Lewis will be the new head football coach at San Diego State University, NBC 7 confirmed on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old Lewis joined Deion Sander's staff at Colorado after leaving a head-coaching job at Kent State. During his time there, from 2018-22, Lewis had tremendous success, coaching the team to a pair of bowl games in five seasons, thanks to a consistent, exciting, high-powered offense.
The 2020 Kent State team led all of college football in yards per game, with 606, and points per game, with 49.8.
Lewis, obviously, is an offensive-minded coach who likes to stretch the field, piling up yards and points. That is in stark contrast to an Aztec offense that was continually among the lowest-ranking units in college ball during the past few years. SDSU was not among the Top 100 teams this season in scoring offense, passing offense or total offense.
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Through the first six games of the 2023 season, Colorado was averaging 34 points per game with Lewis calling the plays. However, Lewis's play-calling duties were revoked by Coach Sanders ahead of the Buffaloes' game against UCLA, with offensive analyst Pat Shurmur assuming those duties.
San Diego State is hoping Lewis can jump-start the excitement around an Aztec program that lost 8 of its final 10 games this season and failed to fill seats in the $300 million Snapdragon Stadium.
San Diego State finished 4-8 in 2023 and failed to make a bowl game. Longtime Brady Hoke retired as SDSU head coach after the season finale against Fresno State.
