You had to see this coming, with Notre Dame football reeling off 10-straight wins and making the College Football Playoff, head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] was bound to get some national recognition.
Following the win at USC, I suggested that this should be the case, and that turned out to be true on Tuesday afternoon. Freeman was named as a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award.
The field for the Irish coach to win the award is deep, as there are eight others vying to take home the award, including the Irish’s opponent in the first-round of the CFP, Indiana’s Curt Cignetti.
It’s hard to really say who is the frontrunner for the honor, but if I had to make a guess, it would be Oregon’s Dan Lanning. He guided the Ducks to an undefeated regular season, and won the Big Ten in their first year in the conference.
Hopefully what Freeman has done separates him from the pack, and he takes home the prestigious honor.
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