Buck Buchanan Award
{{Short description|Football award}}
{{infobox sports award
| name = Buck Buchanan Award
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| description = Most Outstanding Defensive Player in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision
| presenter = Stats Perform
| country = United States
| location =
| year = 1995
| holder = David Walker, DE, Central Arkansas
| website = {{URL|www.fcs.football}}
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File:1986 Jeno's Pizza - 50 - Buck Buchanan and Curley Culp (Buck Buchanan crop).jpg
The Buck Buchanan Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding defensive player in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) of college football, and was first given in 1995 after the Walter Payton Award was designated solely for offensive players.{{cite news |url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/buchanan.htm|title=Buck Buchanan Award |agency=The Sports Network |access-date=2008-12-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404060537/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2Fbuchanan.htm|archive-date=2011-04-04}}
It was named in honor of Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle Buck Buchanan (died 1992), who starred at Grambling State University. Buchanan was an All-American defensive lineman and the first overall pick in the 1963 American Football League (AFL) Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Up until presentations for the 2014 season, the Payton and Buchanan Awards were awarded by The Sports Network. Since STATS LLC, now known as Stats Perform, acquired The Sports Network in February 2015, it has presented all of the major FCS awards. Through the 2011 season, the awards were presented the night before the NCAA Division I Football Championship, but the 2012 awards were presented on December 17, nearly three weeks before that season's championship game.{{cite news |url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/2012payton_Heinicke_xxx.htm |title=Old Dominion's Heinicke captures 2012 Walter Payton Award |agency=The Sports Network |date=December 17, 2012 |access-date=December 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822160708/http://sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2%2Fmisc%2F2012payton_Heinicke_xxx.htm# |archive-date=2013-08-22 |url-status=dead }}
Winners
Awards won by school
This is a list of the colleges and universities who have had a player win a Buck Buchanan Award. Cal Poly (2004, 2005, 2006) is the only program with three winners. Appalachian State (1995–1996), Eastern Washington (2008, 2010), James Madison (2001, 2009), Montana (2007, 2019), Montana State (2012–2013), and Western Illinois (1998, 2000), are the only schools to win the award twice. Dexter Coakley of Appalachian State is the only player to win the award twice.
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="auto" |
| School
! Awards |
|---|
| Cal Poly
| rowspan="1" | 3 |
| Appalachian State^
| rowspan="6" | 2 |
| Eastern Washington |
| James Madison^ |
| Montana |
| Montana State |
| Western Illinois |
| Bethune–Cookman
| rowspan=15 | 1 |
| Central Arkansas |
| Florida A&M |
| Idaho State |
| Illinois State |
| Jacksonville State^ |
| New Hampshire |
| Norfolk State |
| North Carolina A&T |
| North Dakota State |
| Northern Iowa |
| Southeast Missouri State |
| Southern |
| Tennessee State |
| Troy State^ |
:^ Team is now a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
References
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