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 2023 - Mike Norvell, Florida State 2022 - Willie Fritz, Tulane 2021 - Luke Fickell, Cincinnati 2020 - Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern 2019 - Kyle Whittingham, Utah 2018 - Brian Kelly, Notre Dame 2017 - David Shaw, Stanford 2016 - Mike MacIntyre, Colorado 2015 - Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 2014 - Nick Saban, Alabama 2013 - David Cutcliff, Duke 2012 - Bill Snyder, Kansas State 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