Joe Moore was one of the best to ever coach offensive line play in college, doing so at Pittsburgh from 1980-85 before spending two years at Temple, and from 1988-1996 at Notre Dame.
All-Americans and Hall of Famers were regularly developed under Moore. Mark May, Bill Fralic, Jimbo Covert, Russ Grimm, Aaron Taylor, Tim Ruddy, and Tim Ryan are just a few of the great players he helped develop before Bob Davie fired him at Notre Dame in 1996.
Each year since 2015 the Joe Moore Award has gone to college football’s best offensive line and Monday saw the 2020 finalists announced:
No. 1 Alabama, No. 4 Notre Dame, and No. 5 Texas A&M.
Heard anything about any of those three teams lately, Notre Dame fans?
Alabama took home the first Joe Moore Award in 2015 while Notre Dame won it in 2017. Iowa (2016), Oklahoma (2018), and LSU (2019) are the only other programs to ever win the award.
Notre Dame’s offensive line has been superb almost all season long so it’s no surprise to see them as a finalist for this. Alabama has had an insane year offensively in no small part due to their offensive line play, a unit that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough when evaluating the Tide.
Click ahead to read the official release from the University of Notre Dame about them earning a spot as a finalist.