Founding Trustee Walter Manley, II, Coach Dennis Simmons, Mike Houck, and Foundation Chairman Rocky Bevis
2017 Foundation Trustees
Bobby Bowden and Dede Westbrook
Dede with the trophy
2017 Scholarship Recipients
Bobby at the podium
Chairman Rocky Bevis, Coach Bobby Bowden & Coach Dennis Simmons present the Biletnikoff Award Trophy to Biletnikoff Award Winner Dede Westbrook
Dede at the podium


The Biletnikoff Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association’s official website,