College Football Awards & Predictions
The College Football Awards show in on ESPN tonight at 7 PM EST. There are 9 awards given out the College Players, plus the Home Depot Coach of the Year Award. I never watch too much of these things because a lot of the winners are announced ahead of time, but the Steelers don't play till 8:20 so I'll watch tonight and update these real-time.
Lets look at the award finalist and predict a winner (who I would pick) for each. Update: I got 8 out of 9 of the awards correct tonight.
Maxwell Award
Finalists: Ingram, McCoy, Tebow
The Maxwell Award is suppose to go the the nations most outstanding college football player. It is basically the same exact criteria as the Heisman, just not quite as famous.
Prediction: McCoy
Winner: Colt McCoy
Bednarik
Finalists: Cody, Spikes, Suh
The Chuck Bednarik goes to the most outstanding defensive player.
Prediction: Suh
Winner: Ndamukong Suh
Belitnikoff
Finalists: Barnes, Shipley, Tate
The Belitnikoff goes the the nations most outstanding receiver.
Prediction: Tate
Winner: Golden Tate
Groza
Finalists: Forbath, Tiffin, Walsh
The Lou Groza award goes to the nations best place kicker.
Prediction: Forbath
Winner: Kai Forbath
Guy
Finalists: Butler, Henry, Mesko
The Ray Guy award goes to the nations best Punter.
Prediction: Butler
Winner: Drew Butler
O'Brien
Finalists: Keenum, McCoy, Tebow
The Davey O'Brien award goes to the nations best quarterback, just like the Unitas award.
Prediction: McCoy
Winner: Colt McCoy
Outland
Finalists: Iupati, Okung, Suh
The Outland Trophy goes to the nations best interior lineman. This can be either offense or defense.
Predicition: Iupati
Winner: Ndamukong Suh
Thorpe
Finalists: Berry, Haden, Thomas
The Jim Thorpe award goes to the nations best defensive back.
Prediction: Berry
Winner: Eric Berry
Walker
Finalists: Gerhart, Ingram, Spiller
The Doak Walker award goes to the nations best running back. This is my favorite award out of them all.
Prediction: Gerhart
Winner: Toby Gerhart
Home Depot Coach of the Year
Winner: Brian Kelly
Lombardi
Awarded to the nations top defensive lineman.
Winner: Ndamukong Suh
Butkus
Awarded to the nations best linebacker.
Winner: Rolando McClain
Nagurski
Winner: Ndamukong Suh
Hendricks
Given to the nations top Defensive End.
Winner: Jerry Hughes
Camp
The Walter Camp award is given to the most outstanding player (where have we heard that before)
Winner: Colt McCoy
Heisman
Finalists: Ingram, McCoy, Gerhart, Suh, Tebow
The Heisman is the most famous college football award and goes to the nations most outstanding football player.
Prediciton: Ingram (note this is not my vote, I would go Gerhart, Suh, Ingram but according to @stiffarmtrophy Ingram has the lead on known votes.)
If you don't like my take on the winners, here is a link to ESPN's opinion.
Posted By: JGuiher
