Lincoln Riley

American football coach and former player, currently the head coach at the University of Oklahoma since 2017. He won the Broyles Award (2015), awarded to the nations top assistant coach; Big 12 Coach of the Year (2018); and AP Big 12 Coach of the Year (2018). Riley played quarterback at Texas Tech University as a walk-on in 2002, behind senior starter and future Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury and back-up B. J. Symons. After a year, he became a student assistant to Mike Leach, gradually progressing to graduate assistant and then to receivers coach. Following his departure from Texas Tech after the firing of Leach, Lincoln went on to serve five seasons (2010-2014) as offensive coordinator at East Carolina University under Ruffin McNeill. Riley was hired by Bob Stoops to be the offensive coordinator for the Oklahoma Sooners on 12 January 2015. In his first season at Oklahoma, Riley led the Sooners to the 7th ranked offense in the country and to the College Football Playoff. On 7 June 2017, Stoops retired as head coach and Riley was named his successor. In the 2017 season, Riley, anchored by Heisman winner Baker Mayfield, led his team to the Big 12 conference championship, #2 in the CFP rankings, and a berth in one of the CFP semifinal games at the Rose Bowl. Oklahoma went on to lose the 2018 Rose Bowl to Georgia in double overtime 54–48. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less