AP College Football Coach of the Year

AP College Football Coach of the Year

Awarded for	The most outstanding collegiate football coach in the country
Country	United States
Presented by	Associated Press
History
First award	1998
Most recent	Curt Cignetti, Indiana

The AP College Football Coach of the Year award is given annually since 1998 to NCAA college football's national coach of the year. The award is voted on by the Associated Press (AP) voters that participate in the weekly college football AP Poll. The current award holder for 2024 is Curt Cignetti of the Indiana Hoosiers.

Winners

Year	Winner	School
1998	Bill Snyder	Kansas State
1999	Frank Beamer	Virginia Tech
2000	Bob Stoops	Oklahoma
2001	Ralph Friedgen	Maryland
2002	Kirk Ferentz	Iowa
2003	Nick Saban	LSU
2004	Tommy Tuberville	Auburn
2005	Joe Paterno	Penn State [1]
2006	Jim Grobe	Wake Forest [2]
2007	Mark Mangino	Kansas [3]
2008	Nick Saban (2)	Alabama [4]
2009	Gary Patterson	TCU [5]
2010	Chip Kelly	Oregon [6]
2011	Les Miles	LSU [7]
2012	Brian Kelly	Notre Dame [8]
2013	Gus Malzahn	Auburn [9]
2014	Gary Patterson (2)	TCU [10]
2015	Dabo Swinney	Clemson [11]
2016	Mike MacIntyre	Colorado [12]
2017	Scott Frost	UCF [13]
2018	Brian Kelly (2)	Notre Dame [14]
2019	Ed Orgeron	LSU [15]
2020	Jamey Chadwell	Coastal Carolina [16]
2021	Jim Harbaugh	Michigan [17]
2022	Sonny Dykes	TCU [18]
2023	Kalen DeBoer	Washington [19]
2024	Curt Cignetti	Indiana [20]

Winners by school

School	Trophies won
LSU	3
TCU	3
Auburn	2
Notre Dame	2
Alabama	1
Clemson	1
Coastal Carolina	1
Colorado	1
Indiana	1
Iowa	1
Kansas	1
Kansas State	1
Maryland	1
Michigan	1
Oklahoma	1
Oregon	1
Penn State	1
UCF	1
Virginia Tech	1
Wake Forest	1
Washington	1

References

1. "Paterno easily named AP coach of year". NBC Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 6, 2008.
2. "Wake Forest's Grobe named AP Coach of the Year". ESPN. Associated Press. December 20, 2006.
3. "Kansas' Mangino voted AP's Coach of the Year". ESPN. Associated Press. December 19, 2007.
4. "Tide has turned: Saban is AP's coach of year". ESPN. Associated Press. December 23, 2008.
5. "TCU's Patterson named AP coach of the year". ESPN. Associated Press. December 23, 2009.
6. "Oregon's Kelly bests Chizik as AP coach of year". ESPN. Associated Press. December 21, 2010.
7. 2011 Award ^{[ dead link ]}
8. Krausz, Tony (December 5, 2012). "Kelly named coach of the year | The Journal Gazette". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013.
9. "Auburn's Malzahn named AP coach of year". ESPN. Associated Press.
10. "Patterson AP's coach of year for 2nd time". ESPN. Associated Press.
11. "Clemson's Swinney wins AP coach of the year". ESPN. Associated Press.
12. "College football: Colorado's Mike MacIntyre wins AP Coach of the Year". NCAA. Associated Press. December 15, 2016.
13. Russo, Ralph D. (December 18, 2017). "College football: Scott Frost named AP Coach of the Year after leading UCF to undefeated season". NCAA.com. Associated Press.
14. Glaspie, Akeem (December 5, 2018). "Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly wins Coach of the Year award". Indianapolis Star.
15. Staff report (December 17, 2019). "LSU's Ed Orgeron named AP Coach of the Year". espn.com.
16. "Coastal Carolina's Jamey Chadwell is AP coach of the year". AP NEWS. December 30, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
17. "Michigan's Jim Harbaugh is AP coach of the year, Fickell 2nd". AP NEWS. December 10, 2021. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
18. "TCU's Sonny Dykes named Associated Press coach of the Year". AP NEWS. December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
19. "Washington's Kalen DeBoer is the AP coach of the year after leading undefeated Huskies to the CFP".
20. "Colorado's Hunter big winner on college football awards night". ESPN.com. December 12, 2024. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

External links

• List of winners