ND Coach-of-the-Year Winners, updated

I originally compiled this a couple years ago merely out of my own curiosity. I’ve updated it now that all of this year’s winners have been announced. Kelly won four of eleven 2018 Coach of the Year awards. The other winners were Dabo (2), Bill Clark of UAB (2), Saban, Leach, and Jeff Monken of Army.

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These are college football national “Coach of the Year” awards. This list of awards is not comprehensive. There are other sports magazines and newspapers that have done this in the past, but their winners aren’t listed anywhere on the Internet.

American Football Coaches Association. (Award Established in 1935. Originally a poll of coaches conducted by the Scripps-Howard Newspapers)
1941 Frank Leahy
1964 Ara Parseghian (tied with Frank Broyles)
2012 Brian Kelly

Washington, DC Touchdown Club (Est. 1946, Discontinued 1997)
1949 Frank Leahy
1955 Terry Brennan
1964 Ara Parseghian
1977 Dan Devine
1988 Lou Holtz

Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, Football Writers Association of America. (Est. 1957. Named after Robinson since approximately 1997)
1964 Ara Parseghian
1988 Lou Holtz
2005 Charlie Weis
2012 Brian Kelly

Touchdown Club of Columbus (Est. ?* Called the “Woody Hayes Trophy” since 1977)
1964 Ara Parseghian
1988 Lou Holtz

*Note: Information about the award prior to 1977 is sparse.

Sporting News (Est. 1963)
1966 Ara Parseghian
1988 Lou Holtz
2012 Brian Kelly

Walter Camp Football Foundation. Many years ago it was called the “Tad Jones Award.” Currently chosen by FBS coaches and SIDs.* (Est. 1967)
2012 Brian Kelly

*Formerly chosen by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, before that organization switched to the Bryant Award.

Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation (Est. 1976)
2018 Brian Kelly

Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, National Sports Media Association, formerly called the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (Est. 1986)
1988 Lou Holtz

George Munger Award, Maxwell Football Club (Est. 1989)
2002 Tyrone Willingham

Home Depot Coach of the Year, ESPN/ABC Analysts (Est. 1994)
2002 Tyrone Willingham
2012 Brian Kelly
2018 Brian Kelly

Associated Press (Est. 1998)
2012 Brian Kelly
2018 Brian Kelly

Liberty Mutual (Est. 2006, Discontinued 2014)
2012 Brian Kelly

Stallings Award (Est. 2011)
2018* Brian Kelly

*Officially the “2019” winner, but chosen and awarded in December, 2018.