Tommy Tuberville
Thomas Tuberville was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, Auburn University from 1999 to 2008, Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012, and University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016. He is the only coach in Auburn football history to beat in-state rival Alabama six consecutive times. He won the 2004 Walter Camp and Bear Bryant Coach of the Year awards after Auburn’s 13–0 season, in which Auburn won the Southeastern Conference title and the Sugar Bowl. In April 2019, he announced his candidacy in the 2020 United States Senate election in Alabama.
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Thomas Tuberville was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, Auburn University from 1999 to 2008, Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012, and University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016. He is the only coach in Auburn football history to beat in-state rival Alabama six consecutive times. He was inducted into the Southern Arkansas University Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. In April 2019, he announced his candidacy in the 2020 United States Senate election in Alabama. On July 14, 2020, he won the Republican nomination, defeating former senator and attorney general Jeff Sessions. In 2015, he was the president of the American Football Coaches Association. In 2017, he worked for ESPN as a color analyst for their college football coverage. He won the 2004 Walter Camp and Bear Bryant Coach of the Year awards after Auburn’s 13–0 season, in which Auburn won the Southeastern Conference title and the Sugar Bowl. He earned his 100th career win on October 6, 2007, a 35–7 victory over Vanderbilt. In 2004, he led Auburn to a 9–3 record, finishing the regular season with victories over rivals Georgia and Alabama. In 2005, despite starting the entire backfield from the first round of the NFL draft, Tubervile led the Auburn team to an unbeaten start to the 2004 season. He led the Tigers to the top of the SEC standings, leading them to an SEC championship and the Western Division title in 2004. In the 2004 Sugar Bowl, he received the Coach of The Year awards from the Associated Press, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the Walter Campers Association and the Football Foundation of America.
In 2008, he also won the Coach Of The Year award from the Football Writers Association of America and the National Football Coaching Association. He has been married to his wife, Barbara, since 1998. He had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Jennifer, with whom he has three children. He also has a stepson and a son-in-law, who is a high school football coach. He played football for Southern Arkansas and Arkansas State University. He lettered in football as a safety for the Muleriders and played two years on the golf team. He went through the ranks at University of Miami, beginning as graduate assistant and ending as defensive coordinator in 1993 and winning the national championship three times during his tenure there. In 1994, he replaced Bob Davie as defensive Coordinator under R. C. Slocum at Texas A&M University. In 1997, he took over a Rebels team under severe NCAA scholarship sanctions, and was named the SEC Coach Of the Year in 1997 by the AP. In 1998, he left Ole Miss following the 1998 season to take the head coaching job at Auburn University. At Ole Miss, he became involved in the movement to ban Confederate flags from the football stadium by requesting that the students quit waving them during the home football games. At Auburn, he said, \”They’ll have to carry me out of here in a pine box,\” in reference to not leaving to coach at another school.
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