The Maxwell Player of the Year Award has released its 2022 Watch List. Big-time stars from the 2021 season highlight the watch list. Players like Bryce Young, Will Anderson, Stetson Bennett, C.J. Stroud, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Bijan Robinson, and Caleb Williams headline the list. All are looking to build off of stellar 2021 campaigns. However don’t count out players in new waters like J.T. Daniels, Spencer Rattler, and Jordan Addison. Or under-the-radar guys like Jaren Hall, Malik Cunningham, Hendon Hooker, and Cam Rising. In an award geared toward offense (LB Will Anderson is the only defender on the list) look for…
Author: Phillip Riggs
Phillip Riggs
I write about college football, it's past, present, and future. I cover Ohio State, BYU, the Big Ten, national college awards, and the MAC. The Ohio State Buckeyes and the BYU Cougars are my ride and die teams and I admit my heart is swayed toward the Scarlet and Gray and Royal Blue. I love my state of Ohio.
The 2022 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watchlist has been released. The award is given to the best quarterback in college football. Here are all the quarterbacks on the list for 2022 via the Davey O’Brien Award’s website. It’s an impressive list with returning stars like C.J. Stroud, Bryce Young, and Stetson Bennett. Along with old faces in new places Spencer Rattler, Bo Nix, and Dillion Gabriel. As well as some signal callers who can do nearly as much with their feet as their arms like Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Jaren Hall, Will Levis, and Malik Cunningham. Some young guns to watch…
The Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award has released its preseason watchlist for the 2022 college football season. The award is self-explanatory in that it goes to the best coach in college football at the end of the college football season. It is announced during the week of the Peach Bowl, its counterpart. Like most college football awards it is unfortunately announced prior to the completion of the bowl season. PAST TEN WINNERS 2012 – Bill Snyder, Kansas State 2013 – David Cutcliffe, Duke 2014 – Nick Saban, Alabama 2015 – Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 2016- Mike MacIntyre, Colorado 2017…
Gary Moeller, a unique figure in the greatest rivalry in all of sport passed away on Monday. Moeller was from Ohio and played linebacker at Ohio State in the early 1960s. His time includes 1961, a year Woody Hayes and Bob Ferguson lead the Buckeyes to a national championship. That was the start of the controversy Moeller would encounter in his decades in college football. In 1961, Ohio State won the Big Ten and presumably a trip to the Rose Bowl but the Ohio State faculty voted not to allow the team to go (The faculty thought football was becoming…
With the recent blockbuster news of UCLA and USC leaving the PAC-12 (and making it the PAC-10 once again) for the Big Ten the college football world is left wondering where the next domino of the shakeup of college football conferences will fall. The only hope for the PAC-12 is to respond like the Big 12 did when Texas and Oklahoma left. That hope is to expand and find the best teams they can to fill the gaps. The Big 12 did well to secure BYU (a national school), Houston (the fourth-largest city in the country), UCF (a Florida school…
