Project College Football Awards Semi-Finalists

We are toward the end of the regular college football season, so what better time than now to present our awards semi-finalists, but also the clever names that we have named our awards! Now, first of all I wanted to explain, that we wanted to name the awards after two really good players for that position. So, you may not see the names "Rice", "Howard", "Griffin", "Sanders", or "Flutie". We still respect and honor those individuals, but wanted to use names from a more recent time.

Although, Coach of the Year we went with more legendary coaches just for the simple fact that you can't really judge exactly how great a coach will be until they have been out of coaching for a long time (I won't name names, but there is a certain coach that would have easily had this award named after him until unfortunate recent events).

Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M



We also very well could be adding more trophies as we go. We're just flying by the seat of our pants!

So without further ado...

"Tebow-Dorsey Award"
(Best Quarterback)

Johnny Manziel (TAMU) - 3047 Yds, 21 TDs, 7 INTs

Matt Barkley (USC) - 3273 Yds, 36 TDs, 15 INTs

Geno Smith (WVU) - 3361 Yds, 35 TDs, 5 INTs

Tajh Boyd (CLEM) - 3367 Yds, 33 TDs, 11 INTs

AJ McCarron (ALA) - 2291 Yds, 21 TDs, 2 INTs

EJ Manuel (FSU) - 2785 Yds, 21 TDs, 6 INTs

Aaron Murray (UGA) - 2986 Yds, 28 TDs, 7 INTs

Teddy Bridgewater (LOU) - 2858 Yds, 21 TDs, 5 INTs
Collin Klein (KSU) - 2306 Yds, 12 TDs, 3 INTs



Kenjon Barner of Oregon



"Williams-Peterson Award"

(Best Running Back)

Kenjon Barner (ORE) - 1426 Yds, 19 TDs

Montee Ball (WISC) - 1417 Yds, 17 TDs

Ka'Deem Carey (ARIZ) - 1585 Yds, 19 TDs

Stefphon Jefferson (NEV) - 1564 Yds, 20 TDs

Edwards-Fitzgerald Award"

(Best Wide Receiver)

Marqise Lee (USC) - 1605 Yds, 14 TDs

Terrance Williams (BAY) - 1518 Yds, 11 TDs

Stedman Bailey (WVU) - 1260 Yds, 20 TDs

Quinton Patton (LT) - 1267 Yds, 11 TDs

"Woodson-Laurinaitis Award"

(Best Defensive Player)

Damontre Moore (TAMU) - 12.5 Sacks

Manti Te'o (ND) - 6 INTs

Quanterus Smith (WKU) - 12.5 Sacks

Anthony Barr (UCLA) - 12 Sacks

"Nugent-Janikowski Award"

(Best Kicker)

Steven Schott (BALL) - 23/28, 52 Long, 44/45 XP

Dustin Hopkins (FSU) - 22/26, 56 Long, 56/57 XP

Quinn Sharp (OKST) - 21/27, 51 Long, 55/55 XP

Jeremiah Detmer (TOL) - 21/26, 47 Long, 44/47 XP

Caleb Sturgis (FLA) - 20/24, 51 Long, 28/29 XP

"Mesko-Sepulveda Award"

(Best Punter)

Alexander Kinal (WAKE) - 3645 Yds, 61 Long

Darragh O'Neill (COLO) - 3137 Yds, 61 Long

Justin DuVernois (ILL) - 2933 Yds, 72 Long

Mike Sadler (MSU) - 2811 Yds, 70 Long

"Yost-Bryant Award"

(Coach of the Year)

Nick Saban (ALA)

Brian Kelly (ND)

Chip Kelly (ND)

Urban Meyer (OSU)

Bill O'Brien (PSU)

Freshman of the Year

(We will name this award after it's first recipient, at the end of this season)

Johnny Manziel (TAMU)

Marcus Mariota (ORE)

Devin Funchess (MICH)

TJ Yeldon (ALA)

Keep in mind that these are our awards, you do have the right to disagree. However, if you want to let us know who you think should be considered for a certain award, please let us know in our comments, but lets keep it clean, and not have arguing or bickering.

Also, the names of the awards are final, so those are non-debatable.

Thank you for reading and following Project College Football!