Per GoBearcats:
Cincinnati football head coach Luke Fickell collected another Coach of the Year honor on Monday when he was named the recipient of the 2021 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award by the Football Writers Association of American (FWAA) and the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Fickell is the first UC head coach to win the prestigious Eddie Robinson honor.
This season, Cincinnati’s fifth-year head coach led the Bearcats to the only undefeated (13-0) record in college football and a second-consecutive American Athletic Conference Championship.
No. 4 Cincinnati will face top-ranked Alabama in the College Football Playoff Semifinals at the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, on Dec. 31 for a chance at the CFP National Championship.
This season, Cincinnati is one of only two teams in the nation that ranks in the Top 10 in scoring offense (8th – 39.2) and scoring defense (4th – 16.1) and features an incredible 12 All-AAC First Team selections.
Fickell led UC to back-to-back 11-win seasons in 2018 and 2019, and a 9-1 overall record in the condensed 2020 season.
He is a three-time AAC Coach of the Year, winning the conference honors in 2021, 2020 and 2018.
Fickell was also named The Home Depot National Coach of the Year and the Sporting News National Coach of the Year earlier this month.
