Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award

The Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award is a college football award given every year to the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision head coach whose team does well on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.  The award is named for Bobby Dodd.  Dodd was head football coach at Georgia Tech.  The award was made in 1976 to honor the values that Dodd held.  Coaches who win the award are chosen by a committee of college football experts and all previous winners.  The winner is announced during half-time of the Chick-fil-A Bowl on December 31 in Atlanta, Georgia.   A formal presentation is held later, usually on the university campus of the winner.

Winners
Only Joe Paterno of Penn State has received the award twice, in 1981 and in 2005.  Four schools have had two different coaches given the award: Michigan with Bo Schembechler in 1977 and Lloyd Carr in 2007; Air Force with Ken Hatfield in 1983 and Fisher DeBerry in 1985, Georgia Tech with Bobby Ross in 1990 and George O'Leary in 2000 and TCU with Jim Wacker in 1984 and Gary Patterson in 2009.

 Year Coach School 1976 Vince Dooley University of Georgia 1977 Bo Schembechler Michigan 1978 Tom Osborne Nebraska 1979 LaVell Edwards Brigham Young University 1980 Bobby Bowden Florida State University 1981 Joe Paterno Penn State University 1982 George MacIntyre Vanderbilt University 1983 Ken Hatfield United States Air Force Academy 1984 Jim Wacker Texas Christian University 1985 Fisher DeBerry United States Air Force Academy 1986 Dick Sheridan North Carolina State 1987 Dick MacPherson Syracuse University 1988 Don Nehlen West Virginia University 1989 Bill Curry University of Alabama 1990 Bobby Ross Georgia Institute of Technology 1991 George Welsh University of Virginia 1992 Eddie Robinson Grambling State University 1993 Barry Alvarez University of Wisconsin–Madison 1994 Fred Goldsmith Duke University 1995 Gary Barnett Northwestern University 1996 Bob Sutton United States Military Academy 1997 Mike Price Washington State University 1998 Bill Snyder Kansas State 1999 Frank Beamer Virginia Tech 2000 George O'Leary Georgia Institute of Technology 2001 Ralph Friedgen University of Maryland 2002 Jim Tressel Ohio State University 2003 Bob Stoops University of Oklahoma 2004 Paul Johnson United States Naval Academy 2005 Joe Paterno Penn State University 2006 Jim Grobe Wake Forest University 2007 Lloyd Carr Michigan 2008 Mack Brown University of Texas 2009 Gary Patterson Texas Christian University 2010 Chris Petersen Boise State 2011 Dabo Swinney Clemson 2012 Bill Snyder (2) Kansas State 2013 David Cutcliffe Duke 2014 Nick Saban Alabama 2015 Kirk Ferentz Iowa 2016 Mike MacIntyre Colorado 2017 David Shaw Stanford 2018 Brian Kelly Notre Dame 2019 Kyle Whittingham Utah 2020 Pat Fitzgerald Northwestern 2021 Luke Fickell Cincinnati 2022 Willie Fritz Tulane

Other websites
 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation official website 

Category:College football coaches
Category:Sports trophies and awards