Given to the coach of the year, the award is selected by the panel of sports writers and broadcasters of the AP college football poll.
	
Year - coach, school
2007 - Mark Mangino, Kansas
2006 - Jim Grobe, Wake Forest
2005 - Joe Paterno, Penn State
2004 - Tommy Tuberville, Auburn
2003 - Nick Saban, Louisiana State
2002 - Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
2001 - Ralph Friedgen, Maryland
2000 - Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
1999 - Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech
1998 - Bill Snyder, Kansas State