PHILADELPHIA – Temple football head coach Matt Rhule was named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award, the Football Writers Association of America announced today.
Rhule has done wonders with a Temple program that is a Top 25 team in 2015. The Owls have been nationally ranked for the first time since 1980. The former Penn State linebacker is in his third season on North Broad Street and could register the first 11-victory season in school history with a victory over Toledo in the Marmot Boca Raton Bowl. The Owls took Notre Dame down to the wire before losing and won the American Athletic Conference's East Division before falling at Houston in the conference title game.