Robert Edwin Davie Jr. (born September 30, 1954) is an American former college football coach and player.

As a student at Moon Area High School, Davie excelled in sports, lettering three times each in football, baseball, and basketball.

[3] In September 1995, Davie served as interim head coach when Holtz missed a game in order to have surgery.

Davie was the first assistant to become a head coach at Notre Dame since 1954, when Terry Brennan replaced Frank Leahy.

Although a judge dismissed the defamation charges,[3] the university was later found guilty of age discrimination, and Moore received a small settlement.

His final season included the 2001 AFCA Academic Achievement Award when the Notre Dame football team posted a 100% graduation rate.

On 4th down, having killed all but eight seconds, Davie instructed his quarterback Jarious Jackson to scramble around in the end zone before taking a safety.

Ideally, this would have wound the clock almost to zero, but instead, Jackson suffered a blindsided hit, leading to ligament damage in his right knee.

Newly hired athletic director Kevin White promptly gave Davie a five-year contract extension.

[9] On February 8, 2018, he was suspended 30 days without pay; this was related to his handling of incidents of alleged misconduct by football players at UNM.

[10] After the Lobos' 2019 season opener, a 39–31 victory against Sam Houston State, Davie was hospitalized for heart problems, forcing him to cancel the post-game press conference.

[12] Between his head coaching positions at Notre Dame and New Mexico, Davie was a college football analyst for ESPN.