Grantland Rice Trophy

The Grantland Rice Trophy was an annual award presented in the United States from 1954 to 2013 to the college football team recognized by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) as the National Champions.

Grantland Rice Trophy
CountryUnited States
Presented byFootball Writers Association of America (FWAA)
History
First award1954
Final award2013
Most recentFlorida State
WebsiteFWAA Awards

Named for the legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice, the trophy was the first national championship award to be presented after the college football bowl games. Through 1991 voting was undertaken by the membership of the FWAA, but after 1992 was conducted amongst a panel of four or five selected writers, initially by a positional voting system but after 1994 by a single-team vote. Beginning in 2002, the FWAA also began issuing a national poll to go along with the Grantland Rice Trophy. The top team in the final poll was awarded the trophy. The trophy itself consisted of a bronze football atop a four-sided pedestal.

On August 26, 2010, the FWAA announced that the 2004 award presented to the USC Trojans had been rescinded, the first time in the award's history that a winner has vacated the honor.[1] The FWAA declined to name a replacement for that year's award.

With the advent of the College Football Playoff (CFP) for the 2014 season, the FWAA quietly retired the Grantland Rice Trophy, joining with the National Football Foundation (NFF) to instead publish the FWAA-NFF Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll during the regular season, with the CFP champion automatically receiving the NFF's MacArthur Bowl Trophy.[2][3]

Winners
Season Team Conference Head Coach Record
1954UCLAPacific CoastHenry Russell Sanders9–0
1955OklahomaBig 7Bud Wilkinson11–0
1956OklahomaBig 7Bud Wilkinson10–0
1957Ohio StateBig TenWoody Hayes9–1
1958IowaBig TenForest Evashevski8–1–1
1959SyracuseIndependentBen Schwartzwalder11–0
1960Ole MissSECJohnny Vaught10–0–1
1961Ohio StateBig TenWoody Hayes8–0–1
1962USCAAWUJohn McKay11–0
1963TexasSouthwestDarrell Royal11–0
1964ArkansasSouthwestFrank Broyles11–0
1965Alabama
Michigan State (joint)		SEC
Big Ten		Bear Bryant
Duffy Daugherty		9–1–1
10–1
1966Notre DameIndependentAra Parseghian9–0–1
1967USCAAWUJohn McKay10–1
1968Ohio StateBig TenWoody Hayes10–0
1969TexasSouthwestDarrell Royal11–0
1970NebraskaBig 8Bob Devaney11–0–1
1971NebraskaBig 8Bob Devaney13–0
1972USCPac-8John McKay12–0
1973Notre DameIndependentAra Parseghian11–0
1974USCPac-8John McKay10–1–1
1975OklahomaBig 8Barry Switzer11–1
1976PittsburghIndependentJohnny Majors12–0
1977Notre DameIndependentDan Devine11–1
1978AlabamaSECBear Bryant11–1
1979AlabamaSECBear Bryant12–0
1980GeorgiaSECVince Dooley12–0
1981ClemsonACCDanny Ford12–0
1982Penn StateIndependentJoe Paterno11–1
1983Miami (FL)IndependentHoward Schnellenberger11–1
1984BYUWACLaVell Edwards13–0
1985OklahomaBig 8Barry Switzer11–1
1986Penn StateIndependentJoe Paterno12–0
1987Miami (FL)IndependentJimmy Johnson12–0
1988Notre DameIndependentLou Holtz12–0
1989Miami (FL)IndependentDennis Erickson11–1
1990ColoradoBig 8Bill McCartney11–1–1
1991WashingtonPac-10Don James12–0
1992AlabamaSECGene Stallings13–0
1993Florida StateACCBobby Bowden12–1
1994NebraskaBig 8Tom Osborne13–0
1995NebraskaBig 8Tom Osborne12–0
1996FloridaSECSteve Spurrier12–1
1997MichiganBig TenLloyd Carr12–0
1998TennesseeSECPhillip Fulmer13–0
1999Florida StateACCBobby Bowden12–0
2000OklahomaBig 12Bob Stoops13–0
2001Miami (FL)Big EastLarry Coker12–0
2002Ohio StateBig TenJim Tressel14–0
2003USCPac-10Pete Carroll12–1
2004USC (vacated)Pac-10 Pete Carroll 13–0
2005TexasBig 12Mack Brown13–0
2006FloridaSECUrban Meyer13–1
2007LSUSECLes Miles12–2
2008FloridaSECUrban Meyer13–1
2009AlabamaSECNick Saban14–0
2010AuburnSECGene Chizik14–0
2011AlabamaSECNick Saban12–1
2012AlabamaSECNick Saban13–1
2013Florida StateACCJimbo Fisher14–0

    Source: FWAA[4]

    By school
    School Number Seasons
    Alabama 7 1965, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011, 2012
    Oklahoma 5 1955, 1956, 1975, 1985, 2000
    USC 5 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 2003
    Miami (FL) 4 1983, 1987, 1989, 2001
    Nebraska 4 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995
    Notre Dame 4 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988
    Ohio State 4 1957, 1961, 1968, 2002
    Florida 3 1996, 2006, 2008
    Florida State 3 1993, 1999, 2013
    Texas 3 1963, 1969, 2005
    Penn State 2 1982, 1986
    Auburn 1 2010
    Arkansas 1 1964
    BYU 1 1984
    Clemson 1 1981
    Georgia 1 1980
    Colorado 1 1990
    Iowa 1 1958
    LSU 1 2007
    Michigan 1 1997
    Michigan State 1 1965
    Ole Miss 1 1960
    Pittsburgh 1 1976
    Syracuse 1 1959
    Tennessee 1 1998
    UCLA 1 1954
    Washington 1 1991

    See also

    References
    1. ESPN.com news services (August 26, 2010). "USC loses Grantland Rice Trophy". ESPNLA.com. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
    2. National Football Foundation (January 13, 2015). "Ohio State Recognized as 2014 NFF MacArthur Bowl Recipient". National Football Foundation. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
    3. Kirk Bohls (March 4, 2014). "President's column: Introducing the FWAA-NFF Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll". The Fifth Down. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
    4. "Grantland Rice National Championship Trophy". Football Writers Association of America. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
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