Norman native Zac Taylor, in eighth season as Bengals coach, hosts Steelers on Sunday
NORMAN - Zac Taylor, who was born in Norman, is in his eighth season as head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, according to his official team biography, which lists his hometown as Norman, Oklahoma, and says he was born there on May 10, 1983. The Bengals' 2026 schedule and Week 10 game-center pages, opened Thursday, Nov. 12, list Cincinnati hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers at 8:20 p.m. EST (7:20 p.m. Central) Sunday, Nov. 15, at Paycor Stadium, on NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Taylor was named the 10th head coach in Bengals history on Feb. 4, 2019, the biography says. It was last updated in June 2026. In 2021, according to the same biography, he led Cincinnati to its first division title in six years, then to three postseason wins, the AFC championship and a berth in Super Bowl LVI. The following year, the Bengals won a second straight AFC North title under Taylor and returned to the AFC Championship Game.
As a quarterback, Taylor played at Wake Forest and at Butler County Community College in Kansas before two seasons at the University of Nebraska, the biography says. He was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year in 2006 after passing for 3,197 yards and leading the Cornhuskers to a 9-3 record, a conference championship game and a Cotton Bowl berth. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2017 and earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies from Nebraska in 2006.
Before Cincinnati, the biography lists coaching stops as a graduate assistant at Texas A&M, quarterbacks coach for the Miami Dolphins, offensive coordinator at the University of Cincinnati, and assistant roles with the Los Angeles Rams, including the 2018 season when the Rams reached Super Bowl LIII. The same page says his father, Sherwood Taylor, was a defensive back and captain at the University of Oklahoma from 1976 to 1979.
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Source: Cincinnati Bengals: Zac Taylor coach biography; Bengals 2026 schedule; Bengals-Steelers Week 10 game center.