Tag: college football

• Georgia State’s Peterson Named to Lombardi Award Watch List

  Release from Georgia State Athletics: Georgia State linebacker Joseph Peterson was named to the 2015 Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List, announced Tuesday. The senior from Dothan, Ala., is the Panthers’ top returnee on defense after earning All-Sun Belt Conference recognition the last two years, including second-team honors a year ago. Peterson is already Georgia State’s…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 14, 2015

• More Georgia Bulldogs named to watch lists

  Release from Georgia Athletics: Georgia outside linebackers Jordan Jenkins and Leonard Floyd have been named to the watch list for the Butkus Award, which is presented to the nation’s best linebacker. Jenkins and Floyd have already been named to the watch lists for the Bednarik Award, the Nagurski Trophy and the Lombardi Award. Offensive guard…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 14, 2015

• ACC Has Five Selected to Jim Thorpe Preseason Watch List

  Release from the Atlantic Coast Conference: The Atlantic Coast Conference had five defensive backs—which ties for the second highest total of any conference nationally—named to the preseason watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given annually to the top defensive back in the nation. The total preseason watch list of 42 collegiate defensive…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 13, 2015

• Atlantic Coast Conference Has 13 Selected To the Nagurski; Eight to Outland Preseason Watch Lists

  Release from the Atlantic Coast Conference: The Atlantic Coast Conference had 13 players named to the Nagurski Trophy preseason watch list and had eight players tabbed to the Outland Trophy preseason watch list by the Football Writers of Association of America announced Friday In all, 88 players were named to the Nagurski Trophy watch list,…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 11, 2015

• More Georgia Bulldogs named to awards watch lists

  Release from Georgia Athletics: Georgia senior Jordan Jenkins and junior Leonard Floyd have been named to the Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List for being considered as candidates for the national defensive player of the year. Jenkins, a 6-3, 253-pound linebacker from Hamilton, Ga., is the Bulldogs’ top returning tackler from his outside linebacker position with…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 11, 2015

• FSU, Alabama to Play in 2017 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game

  Release from the Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Two of college football’s last three national champions will meet in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game to open the 2017 season in epic fashion. The 10th installment of the nation’s longest-running kickoff game will feature the Florida State Seminoles and the Alabama Crimson Tide in what will be the first regular-season…

  Etienne Marcel Pourtout

  July 10, 2015