Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre has been named the winner of the 2016 Dodd Trophy.
Presented annually by the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, The Dodd Trophy honors the head football coach whose program embodies the award's three pillars of scholarship, leadership and integrity, while also having success on the playing field throughout the season.
MacIntyre joins a list of former recipients of the award, which includes his father, former Vanderbilt coach George MacIntyre, who won the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 1982.
“I’m honored to receive this award on behalf of the University of Colorado,” MacIntyre said in a release. “Our football team and our coaching staff have done a phenomenal job this year. This award is very personal to me, my dad won this award and I also got to know coach Dodd when I was playing at Georgia Tech, so I am honored and blessed to kind of follow in my dad’s footsteps. It is a very special award for me personally since my dad won it.”
MacIntyre was a defensive back at Georgia Tech from 1987 to 1988. He has been an assistant at Georgia and coached at Temple, Ole Miss, and Duke. He joined Colorado in 2013, after two years as head coach at San Jose State.
The Buffaloes went a combined 2-25 in conference play, finishing last in the Pac-12 South for the last three seasons. Under MacIntyre this year, Colorado clinched its first winning season since 2005 and its 10 wins are the most since 2001. The Buffaloes won the Pac-12 South and earned a berth in the Pac-12 Championship Game for the first time since joining the conference in 2011. Colorado was ranked No. 10 in the final College Football Playoff rankings.
The Buffaloes lost 38-8 to Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl.
The team has seen success in the classroom as well, boasting a notable Academic Progress Rate score of 968 last year. In 2016, five Buffaloes were honored on the Pac-12 Conference Football All-Academic teams, which brought the two year total for the program to 13 honorees.
The Dodd Trophy was established in 1976 and is named after Bobby Dodd who coached the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for 22 years.
Past Dodd Trophy winners include Alabama’s Nick Saban, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, Michigan’s Lloyd Carr, Georgia’s Vince Dooley, Tech’s George O'Leary, and Paul Johnson, as Navy’s head coach.
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