 MAC Reporter Online recently published a variety of award watch lists. Those lists contained all players on the lists and also featured MAC players. Here is a summary of the MAC players on 2016 College Football Watch Lists.
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- Toledo inks 2019 grid date at Kentucky - Akron loosens tailgating guidelines - UB adds Nebraska to future schedule - Broncos slates Georgia State for home-and-home - Miami adds forward - Buffalo heading to Happy Valley  DETROIT, Mich. – The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced today the remainder of its expanded television sublicensing schedule with 20 additional games for the 2016 football season. Highlighting the schedule are five additional games that will be televised nationally by CBS Sports Network.
Through the MAC’s national television partnership with ESPN, additional national and regional television networks have partnered with the MAC for expanded coverage. Games will be featured on . . . Western Michigan gets nod in title game  DETROIT, MI – The Western Michigan Broncos and Bowling Green Falcons have been selected to win the West and East Divisions, respectively, in the 2016 Mid-American Conference Football Preseason Poll. The poll was announced at the league’s annual MAC Football Media Day at Ford Field in Detroit and was determined by members of the league’s media members. Western Michigan was also selected to win the 2016 MAC Football Championship Game.
In the East Division, three-time . . .  The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the names of 40 “players to watch” for its 2016 Player of the Year award, the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.
Oklahoma senior quarterback Baker Mayfield, a First Team Walter Camp All-American in 2015, along with Clemson junior quarterback Deshaun Watson, a Second Team Walter Camp All-America selection a year ago, headline the 2016 Watch List. Mayfield accounted for 3,700 passing yards and 36 touchdowns for the Sooners, while Watson passed for 4,104 yards and 35 touchdowns for the Tigers. Twelve players on the 2016 watch list, including . . .  Six of 11 semifinalists for the 2015 Doak Walker Award appear on the 2016 watch list.
The Doak Walker Award is presented annually to the nation’s top college running back. Juniors Leonard Fournette of LSU and Christian McCaffrey of Stanford headline the 2016 candidate list after both were Doak Walker Award finalists a year ago. Fournette led the NCAA at 162.8 yards per game last year, while McCaffrey was the nation’s leader in all-purpose yardage (276.0 YPG). Candidates were nominated by their universities and . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football award watch lists with the Davey O’Brien Award Watch list.
Deshaun Watson of Clemson headlines the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List, which includes 30 of the nation’s top college quarterbacks. The junior is bidding to become the award’s first two-time winner since Oklahoma’s Jason White (2003-04). In addition, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield, one of three finalists a year ago, returns for his junior season. This year’s list was selected based on player performance during the previous year and expectations heading into the 2016 college football season. All nominees are . . .  The Biletnikoff Award annually recognizes the outstanding receiver in college football. Any player, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back, and running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes the outstanding receiver, not merely outstanding wide receiver.
The award recipient is selected by the highly distinguished Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a group of prominent college football journalists, commentators, and former receivers. Foundation trustees do not vote and have never voted. Receivers are . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football award watch lists with the Wuerffel Trophy Watch list.
Named after 1996 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel from the University of Florida, the Wuerffel Trophy is awarded to the FBS player that best combines . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football award watch lists with the Butkus Award Watch List.
Dick Butkus, whom NFL Films considered the best defensive player in football history, plied his pro trade in a now legendary number "51" jersey. The Butkus Award watch list mirrors that number with 51 players reviewed by a 51-person selection committee of experienced coaches, talent evaluators and journalists who vote by private ballot. Jaylon Smith (now with the Dallas Cowboys) of Notre Dame was the 2015 collegiate Butkus Award winner. One finalist, Raekwon McMillan of Ohio State) returns to head the 2016 group. That list includes . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football award watch lists with the Jim Thorpe Award Watch List.
The Jim Thorpe Award 2016 watch list includes 39 of the nation’s best defensive backs, representing ten conferences and includes the 2015 winner, Desmond King. The Jim Thorpe Award is one of the most coveted awards in college football. The award was established in 1986 and is named after history’s greatest all-around athlete, Jim Thorpe. Thorpe excelled not only as a running back, passer, and kicker on the offensive side of the ball, but also stood out as a defensive back. In addition . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football award watch lists with the Outland Trophy Watch List.
Seventy standout interior linemen from all 10 FBS conferences are represented on the 2016 Outland Trophy Watch, which was announced by the Football Writers Association of America. The SEC (12) led all conferences, followed by the Big Ten (11), ACC (10), Pac-12 (10), Big 12 (6), American Athletic (4), Conference USA (4), Independents (4), Mountain West (4), Mid-American (3) and Sun Belt (2). The list includes . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football Award watch lists with the Ray Guy Award Watch List
Desmond King of Iowa, Shawun Lurry of Northern Illinois and Myles Garrett of Texas A&M headline the 2016 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List that includes 88 defensive standouts from all 10 Division I FBS conferences. King, Lurry and Garrett are the returning first-team Football Writers Association of America All-Americans. The watch list also . . .  This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award. The celebration presented by the Orange Bowl Committee will recognize three finalists at a gala awards banquet in Palm Beach County on Dec. 5.
This year's watch list is headlined by three past finalists, 19 former semifinalists, and some of the best emerging talent in college football. It’s a highly competitive year on the 30-player Watch List for the 2016 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award, as announced by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. Last year’s winner, Ka’imi Fairbairn, is now a Houston Texan, making this the first season since 2012 that the reigning Groza winner does not return to defend the honor. But . . .  MAC Reporter Online continues its roundup of college football Award watch lists with the Ray Guy Award Watch List.
The Ray Guy Award has been handed out since 2000 and is named after the former Southern Mississippi punter, who was an unaminous All-American selection in 1972 and the only punter selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. The 2016 winner will . . . |
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