Sport | College football |
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League | Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) |
Awarded for | National champion per final Coaches Poll each season |
Nickname | Crystal football |
Country | United States |
Presented by | American Football Coaches Association |
History | |
First award | 1986 (retroactively available to earlier top-ranked teams per Coaches Poll) |
Most wins | Alabama Crimson Tide (11) |
Most recent | 2023 Michigan Wolverines |
Website | www |
The Coaches' Trophy (officially known as the AFCA National Championship Trophy and popularly as the "crystal football") is the trophy awarded annually by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) to the NCAA Division I FBS college football national champion as determined by the Coaches Poll. The trophy has been presented since 1986 and was contractually given to the winner of the BCS National Championship Game and its predecessors from 1992 to 2013. Since then, it continues to be awarded to the top-ranked team in the final Coaches Poll of the season.[1]