Frost is named AP coach of the year

Scott Frost is the Associated Press coach of the year after leading Central Florida to an unbeaten season and a spot in the Peach Bowl.

Frost has accepted the Nebraska head-coaching job, but plans to complete the season with UCF and coach the 10thranked Knights against No. 7 Auburn.

Frost received 21 first-place votes and 100 points from 57 Top 25 poll voters who submitted ballots. Kirby Smart of Georgia finished second with seven first-place votes and 55 points. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney finished third with seven votes and 38 points.

Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley (four, 36) was fourth and Miami’s Mark Richt (five, 28) was fifth. UAB’s Bill Clark (six), Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst (three), Iowa State’s Matt Campbell (two), Fresno State’s Jeff Tedford (one) and Auburn’s Gus Malzahn (one) also received first-place votes.

Frost took over the UCF program two years ago with the Knights coming off an 0-12 season. He got them to a bowl game last season, going 6-7. This season, UCF won the American Athletic Conference and was the highest-scoring team in the country at 49 points per game. Soccer: Wayne Rooney had one penalty saved and scored another in Everton’s 3-1 win over lastplace Swansea in the Premier League that maintained the team’s resurgent form under recently hired manager Sam Allardyce.

Everton has won four of five games since Allardyce was appointed as the full-time replacement for Ronald Koeman at the end of last month. Skiing: After nearly 100 races spanning more than a decade, Matts Olsson finally stepped atop the podium of a World Cup event — albeit a nontraditional one. The Swedish skier upset favorites Marcel Hirscher and Henrik Kristoffersen in quick succession to win a parallel giant slalom for his first World Cup victory.