On Sunday night, Auburn announced that Kenny Dillingham was the team’s new offensive coordinator. The play-caller, however, is once again head coach Gus Malzahn.

Malzahn handed play-calling over to then-offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee during the 2016 season and had Lashlee’s successor Chip Lindsey call plays in 2017 and ’18, but is going back to being the play-caller with Dillingham as offensive coordinator. In his Thursday press conference, Malzahn explained why he’ll be calling plays again, starting with the Music City Bowl.

“Really, that’s probably my true comfort zone,” Malzahn said. “I’m really looking forward not just to the bowl game but going into next year. We’ve got a lot of our guys back. We’ve got a chance to be really good on offense. So, real excited about that. That’s something that I’m really looking forward to.”

Most importantly, Malzahn thinks it will lead to some much-needed improvement.

“I expect us to be quite a bit better,” Malzahn said. “We’ll operate like we have in the past when I called the plays, everything as far as that goes with it.”