The Eddie Robinson Award is awarded annually to
college football
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Unlike most ...
's top head coach in the
NCAA Division I
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Football Championship Subdivision
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(formerly Division I-AA). The award was established by
The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language sports specialty channel established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. Since 2001, it has been majority-owned by comm ...
, since merged into
Stats Perform
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The company is involved in sports data collection and predictive analysis for use across various spo ...
, 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
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...
coach, who retired in 1997 after 56 years at
Grambling State University
Grambling State University (GSU, Grambling, or Grambling State) is a public historically black university in Grambling, Louisiana. Grambling State is home of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage ...
.
Along with the
Walter Payton Award
The Walter Payton Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding offensive player in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) of college football as chosen by a nationwide panel of media and college sports ...
and
Buck Buchanan Award, it is presented the night before the annual
NCAA Division I Football Championship
The NCAA Division I Football Championship is an annual post-season college football game, played since 2006, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). From 1978 to 2005, the game was kn ...
.
Winners
References
External links
Eddie Robinson Award- Past winners from The Sports Network
College football coach of the year awards in the United States
Awards established in 1987
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