Florida Gators

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gators Head Coach Billy Napier announced Friday that Chris Couch will join his staff as a GameChanger coordinator. In his role as an analyst, he will focus on the special teams unit.
 
A native of Milledgeville, Ga., Couch spent the 2021 season with Napier at Louisiana as UL's special teams coordinator and the director of quality control & analytics.
 
Nationally, the Ragin' Cajuns ranked ninth in net punting, tied-for-10th in blocked kicks, 15th in punting average and 17th in kickoff return defense during Couch's lone season in Lafayette. At the conference level, UL had the best kick return defense and net punting, while ranking fourth in kick return yardage.
 
Prior to joining the Ragin' Cajuns, Couch spent five seasons at Tulane (2016-20), where he worked as the special teams analyst and recruiting coordinator. During his last three seasons at Tulane, the Green Wave ranked in the top half of the American Athletic Conference and top-50 nationally in both kick and punt returns.
 
Prior to Tulane, Couch served as a special teams coordinator and linebackers coach at Point University during the 2015 season, helping the Skyhawks to a 9-3 overall record, a perfect 5-0 conference record and their first-ever NAIA playoff appearance.
 
Among the NAIA national leaders, the Skyhawks ranked third in net punting, 20th in punt return yardage and 30th in kickoff return yardage.
 
Before joining Point University, Couch worked as a defensive graduate assistant at Georgia Southern. He assisted with linebackers in 2014 and defensive tackles in 2013. During his stint at Georgia Southern, he was part of a perfect 8-0 Sun Belt Conference record in 2014, while assisting in the coaching of future NFL players Edwin Jackson, Antwoine Williams and Ironhead Gallon.
 
Couch was the slot backs coach at Missouri Southern State University in 2012. With a 6-5 record, the Lions recorded their first winning season in a number of years, highlighted by an overtime win over second-ranked Missouri Western.
 
Couch earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from Georgia Southern in 2011 and his master's degree in high education administration from Georgia Southern in 2015.