George Munger Award

The George Munger Award is presented to the NCAA Division I college football coach of the year by the Maxwell Football Club. The award was named after former University of Pennsylvania head coach George Munger. People who voted for the winners of the award included NCAA head coaches, members of the Maxwell Club, and sportswriters from all over the country.^[1]

George Munger Award

Awarded for	College Coach of the Year
Country	United States
Presented by	Maxwell Football Club
History
First award	1989
Most recent	Marcus Freeman
Website	maxwellfootballclub.org

In March 2010, the Maxwell Football Club announced that the award would be replaced by the Joseph V. Paterno Award.^[2] Following the breaking of the Penn State sex abuse scandal in November 2011, the club announced that the Paterno award would be discontinued.^[3] The Maxwell Club later returned Munger's name to the award.

Winners

Year	Winner	Team	Ref
1989	Bo Schembechler	Michigan	[4]
1990	Joe Paterno †	Penn State	[4]
1991	Don James	Washington	[4]
1992	Gene Stallings	Alabama	[4]
1993	Terry Bowden	Auburn	[4]
1994	Joe Paterno (2) †	Penn State (2)	[4]
1995	Gary Barnett	Northwestern	[4]
1996	Bruce Snyder	Arizona State	[4]
1997	Lloyd Carr	Michigan (2)	[4]
1998	Phillip Fulmer	Tennessee	[4]
1999	Frank Beamer	Virginia Tech	[4]
2000	Bob Stoops	Oklahoma	[4]
2001	Ralph Friedgen	Maryland	[4]
2002	Tyrone Willingham	Notre Dame	[4]
2003	Pete Carroll	USC	[4]
2004	Urban Meyer	Utah	[4]
2005	Joe Paterno (3) †	Penn State (3)	[4]
2006	Greg Schiano	Rutgers	[4]
2007	Mark Mangino	Kansas	[4]
2008	Mike Leach	Texas Tech	[4]
2009	Gary Patterson	TCU	[4]
2010	Frank Beamer (2)	Virginia Tech (2)	[4]
2011	Brady Hoke	Michigan (3)	[4]
2012	Bill O'Brien	Penn State (4)	[4]
2013	David Cutcliffe	Duke	[4]
2014	Dan Mullen	Mississippi State	[5]
2015	Dabo Swinney	Clemson	[4][6]
2016	Nick Saban	Alabama (2)	[7]
2017	Kirby Smart	Georgia	[8]
2018	Jeff Monken	Army	[9]
2019	Ed Orgeron	LSU	[10]
2020	Jamey Chadwell	Coastal Carolina	[11]
2021	Dave Aranda	Baylor	[12]
2022	Willie Fritz	Tulane	[13]
2023	Kalen DeBoer	Washington	[14]
2024	Marcus Freeman	Notre Dame (2)	[15]

Note: † = The 1990, 1994, and 2005 awards had been given to Joe Paterno of Penn State, but the Maxwell Sports Club has rescinded the awards for those years and removed his name in the aftermath of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal and Paterno's firing.^[16]