Dave Huxtable enters his sixth season at UCF and second as the team's defensive coordinator. After spending his first four seasons guiding the Knights' linebackers and special teams, Huxtable was elevated to his new post following the 2007 season and guided the 2008 defense to one of the top finishes in Conference USA. In several defensive categories, UCF either led the league or finished near the top.

Huxtable was the first hire of the George O'Leary era at UCF and continues a long coaching relationship between the two. Huxtable has 29 years of collegiate coaching experience.

Huxtable and O'Leary reunited in Orlando after the two coached together at Georgia Tech from 1994-97. While serving as the linebackers coach at Georgia Tech from 1992-97, Huxtable also spent time as the Yellow Jackets' special teams coordinator (1992-94) and defensive coordinator (1996-97). Under O'Leary, he was part of the staff that coached Georgia Tech to a 35-30 win over West Virginia in the 1997 Carquest Bowl.

From 2001-03, Huxtable worked at North Carolina. He coached the linebackers for three seasons and also served as the team's defensive coordinator for the final two years of his stint in Chapel Hill. In 2001, he also was North Carolina's special teams coordinator.

Huxtable helped guide a unit that finished first in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 15th in the nation in 2001 in total defense. In addition, he molded a group of inexperienced linebackers into one of the top units in the ACC. Under Huxtable's instruction, former walk-on David Thornton earned All-ACC honors in 2001 after leading the Tar Heels with 131 tackles. That same season, fellow linebacker Quincy Monk was second on the team with 125 stops. Thornton (fourth round) and Monk (seventh round) were both selected in the National Football League Draft.

Prior to working at North Carolina, Huxtable spent a year as the linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Oklahoma State. Before coaching the Cowboys, he spent two years on the East Carolina staff. Huxtable worked with the Pirates linebackers in 1998 and defensive line in 1999. He also worked at East Carolina in the early 1990s, coaching linebackers and special teams from 1990-91. Huxtable was on the staff when the Pirates defeated NC State in the 1991 Peach Bowl.

Prior to his time at Georgia Tech, he coached at Western Kentucky from 1985-89 and was the Hilltoppers' defensive coordinator in 1989. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Iowa State in 1982 and 1983 and was the defensive coordinator at Independence Community College in Kansas in 1984.

During his career, Huxtable has coached a pair of players who were selected in the first round of the NFL Draft - Robert Jones at East Carolina (Dallas, 1991) and Keith Brooking at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, 1997).

A 1979 graduate of Eastern Illinois with a bachelor's degree in education, Huxtable and his wife, Vicki, have a daughter, Shea, and a son, Jake. Shea is a junior on the tennis team at Georgia Southern. Jake is a freshman on the UCF baseball team.