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Champions Award<br />
Mack Brown<br />
2019 Champions Award Winner<br />
Mack Brown, who won 244 games<br />
over a career that spanned 40 years and four<br />
schools, is the Football Bowl Association's<br />
Champions Award winner.<br />
The Champions Award is presented<br />
annually to a coach or administrator who<br />
'over a long career furthers the cause of the<br />
college football bowl industry.'<br />
"I cannot think of anyone who is more<br />
deserving of this recognition than Mack Brown," said <strong>FBA</strong> Executive<br />
Director Wright Waters. "In a coaching career that has covered all or<br />
part of five decades, Mack's teams achieved unusual excellence. He<br />
has been a friend not only to me but to all of college football and I<br />
could not be happier for him."<br />
Brown currently works for ESPN as both a College Football<br />
Countdown studio host and in-game commentator on the network's<br />
Friday evening college football telecasts. He also continues to serve as<br />
a special assistant at the University of Texas.<br />
His head coaching career began in 1973 with a single-season stint<br />
at Appalachian State. He was then head coach at Tulane for three years<br />
[1985-87] and North Carolina [1988-97] for 10 years. His success at<br />
Chapel Hill [69-46-1] vaulted Brown into one of the sport's premiere<br />
spotlight destinations, coaching the Texas Longhorns for 16 seasons<br />
and compiling a 158-48 won-lost record.<br />
Brown coached the Longhorns from 1998-2013. His Longhorns<br />
won the 2005 national championship when Texas scored a late-game<br />
touchdown to beat USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl Game. That contest is<br />
considered one of college football's greatest games ever.<br />
Texas played for the national title again in 2009 against Alabama.<br />
In each of those years, Brown was named Big 12 Coach of the Year. He<br />
was also a two-time national coach of the year in 2005 and 2008.<br />
The Longhorns played in bowl games in 15 of Brown's 16 seasons,<br />
with a 10-5 mark in postseason competition, including three BCS bowl<br />
wins.<br />
From 2001-09, the Longhorns recorded double-digit wins in nine<br />
consecutive seasons, a school record and tied for the second-longest<br />
streak in NCAA history. In addition to the undefeated 2005 season,<br />
Texas had just a single defeat in three other campaigns.<br />
Only 85 coaches at all levels own 200 or more coaching victories.<br />
Brown's 244 rank him 33rd overall and they are the 10th most by a<br />
coach with at least 10 years at an FBS school.<br />
Previous Champions Award Winners<br />
2009 – Roy Kramer, Southeastern Conference commissioner<br />
2010 – Tom Hansen, Pacific-12 Conference commissioner<br />
2011 – LaVell Edwards, Brigham Young head coach<br />
2012 – Bobby Bowden, Florida State head coach<br />
2013 – Grant Teaff, Baylor head coach/AFCA president<br />
2014 – Dennis Poppe, NCAA administrator<br />
2015 – Lee Corso, Indiana head coach/ESPN commentator<br />
2016 – Mike Slive, Southeastern Conference commissioner<br />
2017 – Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech head coach<br />
<strong>2018</strong> – Donnie Duncan, Oklahoma athletics director/Iowa State head coach<br />
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