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Paul "Bear" Bryant Award

Paul "Bear" Bryant Award
Awarded for NCAA college football's national coach of the year
Country United States
Presented by National Sports Media Association
First awarded 1986
Currently held by Dabo Swinney, Clemson
Official website http://www.bryantawards.com/

The Paul "Bear" Bryant Award is an award that has been given annually since 1986 to NCAA college football's national coach of the year. The Award was named in honor of longtime Alabama coach Bear Bryant after he died of a heart attack in 1983. It is voted on by the National Sports Media Association (formerly the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association) and proceeds from the awards ceremony benefit the American Heart Association. The College Football Coach of the Year Award began in 1957 and was renamed for Bryant in 1986. Bryant himself won the AFCA Coach of the Year award in 1961, 1971, and 1973.

According to the official website:

The Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coaching Awards is an exclusive event that honors a college football coach whose great accomplishments, both on and off the field, are legendary. The award recognizes the masters of coaching and allows them to take their deserved place in history beside other legends like Bear Bryant.

Unlike many college football head coaching awards, it is presented after each season's bowl games.

2000Darrell Royal
2001Charles McClendon
2002Bill Yeoman
2003Frank Broyles
2004Gene Stallings
2005Lou Holtz
2006Jack Pardee
2007Bo Schembechler
2008Tom Osborne
2009Barry Switzer
2010Vince Dooley
2011Bobby Bowden
2012Hayden Fry
2013LaVell Edwards
2014R. C. Slocum
2015Jimmy Johnson
2016Mack Brown
2017Barry Alvarez


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