Is it me or does the Broyles Award seem to be a bit of a Madden Cover/ SI Cover jinx? You have Kirby Smart who has gone on to great success. A couple of others of note, but seems to be a lot of Former… in the titles, and the guys winning them usually aren’t 70 years old. Based on this list, not sure I’m backing up the Brinks truck to hire the latest winner.
2001
Randy Shannon
Miami (FL)
Current co-defensive coordinator of Florida State, Former defensive coordinator at UCF, former head coach at Miami (FL), former interim head coach at Florida
2002
Norm Chow
Southern California
Most recently offensive coordinator of the XFL's Los Angeles Wildcats, former head coach at Hawaii
2003
Brian VanGorder
Georgia
Former head coach at Georgia Southern
2004
Gene Chizik
Auburn
Former head coach at Iowa State and Auburn
2005
Greg Davis
Texas
Former head coach at Tulane
2006
Bud Foster
Virginia Tech
Former associate head coach, linebackers coach, and defensive coordinator at Virginia Tech
2007
Jim Heacock
Ohio State
Former head coach at Illinois State
2008
Kevin Wilson
Oklahoma
Current head coach at Tulsa, former head coach at Indiana
2009
Kirby Smart
Alabama
Current head coach at Georgia
2010
Gus Malzahn
Auburn
Current head coach at UCF and former head coach at Auburn
2011
John Chavis
LSU
Former defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Arkansas; former defensive coordinator at Tennessee and Texas A&M
2012
Bob Diaco
Notre Dame
Former head coach at Connecticut
2013
Pat Narduzzi
Michigan State
Current head coach at Pittsburgh
2014
Tom Herman
Ohio State
Current head coach at Florida Atlantic, former head coach at Houston and Texas
2015
Lincoln Riley
Oklahoma
Current head coach at USC
2016
Brent Venables
Clemson
Current head coach at Oklahoma
2017
Tony Elliott
Clemson
Current head coach at Virginia
2018
Mike Locksley
Alabama
Current head coach at Maryland, former head coach at New Mexico, former interim head coach at Maryland
2019
Joe Brady
LSU
Former offensive coordinator of the NFL's Carolina Panthers
2020
Steve Sarkisian
Alabama
Current head coach at Texas, former head coach at Washington and USC, former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Alabama
2021
Josh Gattis
Michigan
Current offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Miami
2022
Garrett Riley
TCU