The head coach of the Duke Blue Devils football team when they played at new West Campus has won multiple college football coach of the year awards. He also coached the 2002 Ole Miss Rebels football team. He also coached another sports group. This sports group won that year's Independence Bowl.
 The team was led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his sixth year, and played its home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. 
 He also earned multiple college football coach of the year awards from the Walter Camp Football Foundation, the Maxwell Football Club, and the Bobby Dodd Foundation. 
 Coached by David Cutcliffe, the Rebels played their home games at VaughtHemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi. 
The 2002 Independence Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Ole Miss Rebels on December 27, 2002, at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. 
