Given to the coach of the year, The Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award 
is an annual college football award given to the Division I Football 
Bowl Subdivision head coach whose team excels on the field, 
in the classroom, and in the community. 
The award is named for Bobby Dodd, longtime head football coach at 
Georgia Tech and was established in 1976 to honor the values that 
Dodd exemplified. 
Award recipients are chosen by a selection committee composed of 
college football experts and all previous recipients.


Year - coach, school
2011 - Dabo Swinney, Clemson
2010 - Chris Petersen, Boise State
2009 - Gary Patterson, Texas Christian
2008 - Mack Brown, Texas
2007 - Lloyd Carr, Michigan
2006 - Jim Grobe, Wake Forest
2005 - Joe Paterno, Penn State
2004 - Paul Johnson, Navy
2003 - Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
2002 - Jim Tressel, Ohio State
2001 - Ralph Friedgen, Maryland
2000 - George O'Leary, Georgia Tech
1999 - Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech
1998 - Bill Snyder, Kansas State
1997 - Mike Price, Washington State
1996 - Bob Sutton, Army
1995 - Gary Barnett, Northwestern
1994 - Fred Goldsmith, Duke
1993 - Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin
1992 - Eddie Robinson, Grambling State
1991 - George Welsh, Virginia
1990 - Bobby Ross, Georgia Tech
1989 - Bill Curry, Alabama
1988 - Don Nehlen, West Virginia
1987 - Dick MacPherson, Syracuse
1986 - Dick Sheridan, North Carolina State
1985 - Fisher DeBerry, Air Force
1984 - Jim Wacker, Texas Christian
1983 - Ken Hatfield, Air Force
1982 - George MacIntyre, Vanderbilt
1981 - Joe Paterno, Penn State
1980 - Bobby Bowden, Florida State
1979 - LaVell Edwards, Brigham Young
1978 - Tom Osborne, Nebraska
1977 - Bo Schembechler, Michigan
1976 - Vince Dooley, Georgia