The Eddie Robinson Award is awarded annually to college football's top head coach in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). The award was established by The Sports Network, since merged into Stats Perform, in 1987 and is voted upon by the division's sports information directors and selected sports writers. The award is named for Eddie Robinson, the College Football Hall of Fame coach, who retired in 1997 after 56 years at Grambling State University.
Along with the Walter Payton Award and Buck Buchanan Award, it is presented the night before the annual NCAA Division I Football Championship.
Winners Year Winner School 1987 Holy Cross 1988 Lafayette 1989 Georgia Southern 1990 UCF 1991 Nevada 1992 The Citadel 1993 Boston University 1994 Youngstown State 1995 Murray State 1996 Nicholls State 1997 Villanova 1998 Georgia Southern 1999 James Madison 2000 Montana 2001 Lehigh 2002 McNeese State 2003 Wofford 2004 Southern Illinois 2005 New Hampshire 2006 Appalachian State 2007 Northern Iowa 2008 James Madison 2009 Prairie View A&M 2010 Southeast Missouri State 2011 Towson 2012 North Dakota State 2013 North Dakota State 2014 New Hampshire 2015 Coastal Carolina 2016 Sam Houston State 2017 Austin Peay 2018 UC Davis 2019 Troy Taylor Sacramento State 2020 Scott Wachenheim VMI 2021 Deion Sanders Jackson State 2022 John Stiegelmeier South Dakota State 2023 Jimmy Rogers South Dakota State 2024 Brent Vigen Montana State 2025 Kevin Cahill Lehigh
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External links Eddie Robinson Award - Past winners from The Sports Network