Bobby Bowden COTY award. That makes SEVEN this season.
AUBURN — Gus Malzahn picked up his sixth national coach of the year award on Friday, capping off the successful season he led in his first year as Auburn head coach.
Malzahn was named the winner of the 2013 Bobby Bowden National Collegiate Coach of the Year Award by The Over the Mountain Touchdown Club of Birmingham. He previously won the 2013 FWAA/Eddie Robinson, Liberty Mutual, Home Depot, Sporting News and Paul “Bear†Bryant Coach of the Year Awards for leading Auburn to 12-2 record, an SEC Championship and spot in the BCS National Championship, which the Tigers lost to Florida State earlier this month, this season.
In the five year history of the Bowden Award the winner has been either Alabama coach Nick Saban or an Auburn coach. Former Auburn coach Gene Chizik won the award in 2010 after leading the Tigers to the BCS National Championship.
Presentation of the award will take place in Birmingham at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center on March 2, 2014. Bobby Bowden will present the award to Malzahn and honor College Football Hall of Fame member Vince Dooley with a Lifetime Achievement Award
The recipient of the Bowden Award is voted upon by the OTM Touchdown Club and members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Other finalists for this year’s award were David Cutcliffe of Duke, Art Briles of Baylor, Mark Dantonio of Michigan State, and Jimbo Fisher of Florida State.
The others were: Bear Bryant Death Mask Award, the Eddie Robinson, Home Depot, Liberty Mutual, Associated Press and Sporting News.
Gotta be a record.
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