Matt Butterfield - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

BYU

Sep 27 (Sat)

8:15 PM

Matt Butterfield

Title:
Offensive Assistant
Email:
matthew.butterfield@colorado.edu

        Matt Butterfield is in his third year at Colorado and first year as quality control with the offense, as he returned to his alma mater on February 15, 2019. He works primarily with CU’s quarterbacks and assists the rest of the offensive skill positions.

        He had eight stops, including one twice, in-between graduating from CU and coming back to Boulder. He had been an offense and special team assistant at the University of California-Berkeley in 2018-19, which followed as tight ends coach at Bucknell University (2018).

        Butterfield’s first full-time position was at Arizona State University (2010-12), where he was in quality control at one time or another for the offense (wide receivers), defense (linebackers) and special teams under Hall of Fame coach Dennis Erickson. He then moved on to UCLA, where he was an offensive graduate assistant the 2012 and 2013 seasons, working particularly with the inside wide receivers. The Bruins won the Pac-12 South Division under first-year head coach Jim Mora and were nipped by Stanford in the league’s title game. He returned to ASU for the 2014-15 seasons as the senior associate offensive analyst with the quarterbacks under head coach Todd Graham.

        In 2015, he found himself at Boise State University as a graduate assistant on offense, where he worked with the running backs under head coach Bryan Harsin. From there, he headed west to the University of Oregon, where in 2016 he was the Ducks’ senior offense (tight ends) and special teams analyst. UO’s tight ends led the nation in receptions and were second in receiving yards that year. For the 2017 season, he was an offensive assistant at Oklahoma State University, working with Coach Gundy and the Cowboys' quarterbacks and tight ends. Helping the Cowboys have the most-explosive offense in the country.

        In his career, he has worked nine bowl games: 2007 Independence (with the Buffaloes), 2011 Las Vegas, 2012 Holiday, 2013 Sun, 2014 Sun, 2015 Poinsettia, 2017 Camping World, 2018 Cheez-It and 2020 Alamo (also with CU); four of those teams were bowl champions.

        Butterfield earned his bachelor’s degree in History from CU in 2010, and earned a Masters of Education in Education from UCLA in 2013. As an undergraduate at CU, he got his first taste of the coaching profession as he was a student coach assisting CU Hall of Fame assistant coach Brian Cabral with the Buff linebackers.

        He was born in Scottsdale, Ariz., and graduated from Brophy College Prep in Phoenix, where he lettered in football. Brophy was a four-time Desert Valley Conference champion and a one-time AIA state titlist during his prep career. His hobbies include sports, music, the outdoors and traveling.