2025 Walter Camp FBS Coach of Year Finalists Announced – Cignetti (Indiana), Day (Ohio State), Lea (Vanderbilt)
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the three finalists for its 2025 Football Bowl Subdivision Coach of the Year award. The Walter Camp Coach of the Year is selected by the 136 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports communicators, and will be announced on Wednesday, December 10.
The 2024 Walter Camp Coach of the Year, Coach Cignetti has led the Hoosiers to a 12-0 record and a berth in the 2025 Big Ten Conference Championship game. Cignetti was the 2024 Walter Camp Coach of the Year.
Coach Day has led the defending national champion Buckeyes to a 12-0 record in 2025, and its second straight appearance in the Big Ten Conference championship game.
Coach Lea has led the Commodores to an impressive 10-2 record, marking the first time in program history that Vanderbilt football achieved a 10-win season.
Considered the “Father of American Football,” Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Visit www.waltercamp.org for more information.
The Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). Founded in 1997, the NCFAA includes college football’s most prestigious awards and its 25 awards have honored more than 950 recipients dating back to 1935.
Previous Walter Camp Coach of Year winners — https://waltercamp.org/coach-of-the-year/
