ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo will be featured tonight at 7 PM (ET) on the CBS Sports Network Show, CBS Sports Connected, with host Evan Washburn.
The show features personalities from around the world of sports with a special guest that will "zoom bomb" them during the interview. Niumatalolo's surprise zoom bomb was by former Navy great Keenan Reynolds. Las Vegas Raiders general manager Mike Mayock will also be featured on tonight's show.
In his 12 seasons at the helm of the Navy football program and in his 22 years overall at the Naval Academy, head coach Ken Niumatalolo has engineered a program that has hit on all cylinders more often than not since he took over the reigns at the end of the 2007 campaign.
Navy has had 10 winning seasons and gone to 10 bowl games during Niumatalolo's time as head coach, which makes it one of the greatest eras in school history.
Niumatalolo has repeatedly guided the Midshipmen to success both on and off the gridiron. Included in his accomplishments are a number of milestones never before achieved by a coach or team in the program's 139-year history.
Niumatalolo (98-60, .620) is the program's all-time winningest coach and is the only coach in the history of the Army-Navy game to start his coaching career 8-0 against the other Academy. Niumatalolo's nine wins against Army are the most in the history of the Army-Navy game, which is the greatest rivalry in all of sports.
Niumatalolo led Navy to one of the greatest seasons in school history in 2019, winning a school-record tying 11 games against just two losses, winning the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy, sharing the American Athletic Conference West Division title with Memphis and winning the prestigious Liberty Bowl. Navy's turnaround of eight games from 2018 was the second-biggest turnaround in FBS history.
Navy finished the 2019 campaign ranked 20th in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls. It marked just the second time in the last 56 years Navy finished in the AP Top 20 (18th in 2015).
Niumatalolo also led Navy to a school-record 11 wins in 2015, which included sharing the West Division title with Houston in Navy's first year in the American Athletic Conference, as well as winning the Lambert Trophy, awarded to the best team in the East, for the first time since 1963.
He led Navy to its first outright division title in 2016 as the Mids went 7-1 in the AAC.
Niumatalolo is the first coach in school history to win four-consecutive bowl games and his six overall bowl wins are the most in school history.
He has led Navy to six Commander-In-Chief's Trophies, which is the most in school history.
Niumatalolo was one of just four coaches to be named a finalist for the Dodd Trophy and the Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of The Year Award in 2015 and was a finalist for the Bryant Award again in 2019. He was a Dodd Trophy finalist again in 2016 and was also the AFCA Region 1 Coach of the Year in 2016.
In 2019, he won the Stallings Award which is presented annually to a college football head coach who is both a humanitarian and an exceptional head coach.
He has been named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times (2015, 2016, 2019) and the ECAC Coach of the Year twice (2015 and 2019).
