Matt House was hired by the Jacksonville Jaguars as inside linebackers coach for the 2024 season.
House most recently served as the defensive coordinator/linebackers coach with LSU during the 2022-23 seasons. In 2023, the Tiger's defense led the SEC in total tackles, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. In 2022, House's first season with the Tigers, the LSU defense featured six transfers, a true freshman and two first-time starters and still finished fourth in the SEC in passing defense, fifth in scoring and sixth in total defense. Under House's guidance, linebacker Harold Perkins emerged as one of the SEC's top playmakers, earning consecutive season All-SEC honors in 2022-23 and Freshman All-America in 2022.
Prior to his time at LSU, House served as linebackers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs (2019-2021). He was part of a Kansas City organization that won Super Bowl LIV during the 2019 season and played for the Super Bowl title the following year. Over the span of three seasons, Kansas City ranked fourth in PFF pressures, seventh in interceptions, and seventh in points allowed.
House spent three seasons (2016-18) at the University of Kentucky where he coached Jaguars OLB Josh Allen to SEC Defensive Player of the Year and Bronko Nagurski Award honors. House's defense anchored a Wildcat team that reached three consecutive bowl games, a first for the school in nearly a decade. The Wildcats capped the school's first 10-win season in 2018 and finished ranked No. 12 in the nation. House's 2018 Kentucky defense ranked No. 6 in the nation in points allowed per game as the Wildcats held six opponents to 14 points or less. In his first year with the Wildcats, House served as the special teams coordinator/inside linebackers coach.
House spent one season as the defensive coordinator at Florida International (2015) in which his defense limited four opponents to less than 14 points and finished the season ranked 16th nationally in red zone defense. House's defense boasted five players who earned all-conference honors and four would go on to sign NFL contracts.
Before his time in Lexington and South Florida, House spent time as a defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh (2012-14) where he coached first round NFL Draft pick Aaron Donald. Donald has since become one of the most dominant defenders in the NFL, three times being named the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year. Pitt won two bowl games during House's three years with the Panthers.
Prior to returning to the college, House spent four years in the NFL, serving as defensive quality control/assistant linebacker coach for the St. Louis Rams (2009-11) and special teams/strength and conditioning assistant for the Carolina Panthers (2008). In his one season in Carolina, the Panthers went 12-4 and claimed the NFC South title.
House's final stop of his first collegiate stint was at the University of Buffalo (2006-07), where he was the defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the Bulls. Buffalo captured the MAC East title in 2007 and in 2008, the Bulls played in a bowl game for the first time in school history. House also coached on the defensive side of the ball at North Carolina (2003-04) and Gardner-Webb (2005).
House began his coaching career at Michigan State University (2001-02) as a graduate assistant, helping the Spartans to the 2001 Silicon Valley Classic working with the secondary and special teams units.
House and his wife Jessi have four children – Avery, Jackson, Jacob and Trent. The Harrison, Michigan native is a 2000 graduate of Michigan State.
