LSU’s Ed Orgeron Named 2019 Walter Camp Coach of the Year
Ed Orgeron, head coach of the Louisiana State University Tigers, is the Walter Camp 2019 Coach of the Year. The Walter Camp Coach of the Year is selected by the nation’s 130 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors.
Orgeron joins former LSU head coaches Les Miles (2011) and Jerry Stovall (1982) as the Walter Camp Coach of the Year. In addition, Orgeron is the 11th coach from the Southeastern Conference to earn the honor.
Under Orgeron’s direction this season, the LSU has recorded a 13-0 record, winning the SEC title with a 37-10 victory over No. 4 Georgia on Dec. 8. This season, the Tigers have defeated five teams who were ranked in the top ten at the time of the game. It is the second time in college football history (Notre Dame, 1943), a team has done that. Top-ranked LSU will play fourth-ranked Oklahoma in 2019 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chuck-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, December 28.
In addition, four LSU players were recently honored as Walter Camp All-America selections, including 2019 Walter Camp Player of the Year, senior quarterback Joe Burrow. Entering the College Football Playoff semifinals, the Tigers are averaging 47.8 points per game (good for 3rd in the nation), while allowed just 21.2 (27th in the nation).
Orgeron was named LSU’s interim coach during the 2016 season. He went 5-2 to finish the regular season and was promoted to head coach. His overall record at LSU is 38-9, 23-7 in the SEC. Prior to arriving at LSU, Orgeron was a head coach at Ole Miss (2005-07) and USC (2013). His overall coaching record is 54-36.
A native of Larose, La., Orgeron is a 1984 graduate of Northwestern State University and earned a B.A. in liberal arts. He and his wife Kelly have three children.
Coach Orgeron, along with the members of the 2019 Walter Camp All-America team and other major award winners (2019 Walter Camp Player of the Year Joe Burrow, LSU; Man of the Year-Curtis Martin; Distinguished American-Chris Berman), will be honored at the organization’s national awards banquet, presented by David McDermott Lexus of New Haven, on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at the Yale University’s Lanman Center.
Walter Camp, “The Father of American football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. 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.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipien
Walter Camp Coaches of the Year
2019 – Ed Orgeron, LSU
2018 – Nick Saban, Alabama
2017 – Mark Richt, Miami
2016 – Mike MacIntyre, Colorado
2015 – Dabo Swinney, Clemson
2014 – Gary Patterson, TCU
2013 – David Cutcliffe, Duke
2012 – Brian Kelly, Notre Dame
2011 – Les Miles, LSU
2010 – Chip Kelly, Oregon
2009 – Gary Patterson, TCU
2008 – Nick Saban, Alabama
2007 – Mark Mangino, Kansas
2006 – Greg Schiano, Rutgers
2005 – Joe Paterno, Penn State
2004 – Tommy Tuberville, Auburn
2003 – Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
2002 – Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
2001 – Ralph Friedgen, Maryland
2000 – Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
1999 – Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech
1998 – Bill Synder, Kansas State
1997 – Lloyd Carr, Michigan
1996 – Bruce Snyder, Arizona State
1995 – Gary Barnett, Northwestern
1994 – Joe Paterno, Penn State
1993 – Terry Bowden, Auburn
1992 – Gene Stallings, Alabama
1991 – Bobby Bowden, Florida State
1990 – Bobby Ross, Georgia Tech
1989 – Bill McCartney, Colorado
1988 – Don Nehlen, West Virginia
1987 – Dick MacPherson, Syracuse
1986 – Jimmy Johnson, Miami
1985 – Fisher DeBerry, Air Force
1984 – Joe Morrison, South Carolina
1983 – Mike White, Illinois
1982 – Jerry Stovall, Louisiana State
1981 – Jackie Sherrill, Pittsburgh
1980 – Vince Dooley, Georgia
1979 – John Mackovic, Wake Forest
1978 – Warren Powers, Missouri
1977 – Lou Holtz, Arkansas
1976 – Frank R. Burns, Rutgers
1975 – Frank Kush, Arizona State
1974 – Barry Switzer, Oklahoma
1973 – Johnny Majors, Pittsburgh
1972 – Joe Paterno, Penn State
1971 – Bob Devaney, Nebraska
1970 – Bob Blackman, Dartmouth
1969 – Bo Schembechler, Michigan
1968 – Woody Hayes, Ohio State
1967 – John Pont, Indiana
