Patterson Named AP Coach of the Year
12/24/2014 12:00:00 AM | Football
NEW YORK -- TCU's Gary Patterson has been voted college football coach of the year by The Associated Press, joining Nick Saban as the only two-time winners.
Patterson, in his 14th season at TCU, was coach of the year in 2009. Saban was coach of the year in 2003 when he was with LSU and in 2008 at Alabama.
Patterson received 27 of 54 votes from the AP Top 25 media panel.
Patterson led the Horned Frogs to their first Big 12 championship in just their third season in the conference. TCU was picked seventh in the preseason Big 12 poll.
The Horned Frogs' all-time winningest coach with 131 victories, Patterson has now won six conference championships in three different leagues as TCU's head coach.
Patterson has guided the Horned Frogs (11-1) to the 11-win mark for the eighth time in the last 12 campaigns.
Patterson's .744 winning percentage (131-45) ranks fourth among active coaches nationally (minimum 10 years). He is one of just five active coaches with at least 100 victories at their current school. TCU is 29-3 when taking the field as a top-10 team under Patterson, including a 19-1 mark when in the top 5.
The nation's fifth-longest tenured head coach, Patterson has won a total of 17 National Coach of the Year honors at TCU.
In addition to being the AP Coach of the Year, Patterson has received the 2014 Eddie Robinson Award while also being recognized this season as the Coach of the Year by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, ESPN/Home Depot, CBSSports.com and Scout.com. He is also the Woody Hayes Award recipient in addition to being a finalist for the Bobby Dodd Award and Paul "Bear" Bryant Award. He was also the Chuck Neinas Big 12 Coach of the Year as well as the Associated Press Big 12 Coach of the Year.
TCU faces Ole Miss on Dec. 31 in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta.
