Gene Chizik, Former Auburn Head Football Coach, 2010 National Champion (Pt 1)
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Episode 198
For 28 years, Gene Chizik coached college football. He began his career at Clemson and after stints with Middle Tennessee, Stephen F. Austin, Central Florida, Auburn, and Texas, he got his first shot as a head coach with Iowa State in 2007. Two years later, he became the head coach of the Auburn Tigers, and in 2010, reached the pinnacle of college football, winning the BCS National Championship, defeating Oregon 22-19.
Chizik spent 4 seasons with the Tigers before his time ended in 2012. In 2015, he returned to coaching as the defensive coordinator of the North Carolina Tar Heels for two seasons.
In 2016, he was named an analyst for ESPN and the SEC Network, where he remains.
In part 1 of our podcast, Coach Chizik shares about broadcasting, parenting, his coaching journey, and where his faith in Christ was rooted.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former Auburn head football coach 2010 national champion, Gene Chiswick, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:18.5 | Today's guest on the podcast, part one of a two-part conversation with former Auburn |
| 1:23.6 | head football coach 2010 national champion, Gene Chiswick, is our guest here on the podcast. |
| 1:30.0 | And I met Coach Chisick back in 2011. |
| 1:33.8 | So that's the year following his national championship run with Auburn. |
| 1:39.5 | And of course, Cam Newton being a big part of that, winning the Heisman Trophy that year, |
| 1:44.1 | and then certainly |
| 1:44.6 | playing great enough to get Auburn all the way to an undefeated national championship in 2010. |
| 1:51.4 | And Coach Chizek came in 2011 to ESPN, and again in 2012, as the Auburn head football coach. |
| 1:58.3 | And they had what they called SEC sort of media days at ESPN. And I was assigned |
| 2:05.3 | in my job at that time to walk around and be the guide for Auburn. So coach Chisick and I and a |
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