Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New Weekly Post!

For the remainder of the season, every Monday afternoon I will be selecting players of the week for every BCS conference and one or two from all of the non-BCS conferences and Independents. It will be called simply "Top Performers."

ACC: Russell Wilson (Fr. QB NC State) - The Freshman led the Wolfpack to a victory over the early season Cinderella, ECU Pirates. He threw for 210 yards and 3 touchdowns, and directed the end of the game drive to force overtime. More impressively, he did this after suffering an undisclosed injury that will keep him out of next weeks' game.

Big 12: Chase Daniel (Sr. QB Mizzou) - I can't talk about this guy enough. Every week he plays better than the previous week. This week he had a career high 439 passing yards, and he set the Big 12 record by completing 20 passes in a row (the record was previously 18 and was set by Seneca Wallace for Iowa State in 2001).

Big East: Donald Brown (Jr. RB UConn) - He is now the nation's leading rusher with 716 yards this season after adding another 150 on 34 carries and scoring 2 TDs.

Big 10: Javon Ringer (Sr. RB Michigan State) - He is Michigan State's offense. Ringer had 39 carries, 201 yards and 2 touchdowns on Saturday against Notre Dame.

Pac 10: Marshall Lobbestael (Fr. QB Washington State) - The Pac 10 player of the week could go to anyone with a pulse. No one really stood out in the last week of games and the most impressive performances came from guys, like Lobbestael, who hardcore fans of their teams had never heard of. The first and second string quarterbacks for the Cougars went down, so in came Lobbestael who threw for 149 yards and two touchdowns.

SEC: Ryan Hamilton (Jr. Safety Vanderbilt) - All this guy did was tie the school record for interception in a game with three, returning one of them for a touchdown, and recovered a fumbled punt. That's four takeaways by one player in a single game.

Independents/Non-BCS: Kellen Moore (Fr. QB Boise State) - He passed for 386 yards and 3 TDs in his first road game as a freshman. Even more impressive is that it was at Autzen Stadium, one of the toughest places to play in college football.

David Johnson (Sr. QB Tulsa) - Johnson had his second 6 touchdown pass game. His team has only played three games now. If Johnson would be able to keep this pace up he would finish the season with 60 TDs. He also had 469 passing yards, as well.

1 comment:

UISJMC Schwartz said...

ASSIGNMENT - Actually, you have two. First, Megan's post about a Big Ten Heisman candidate needs a comment from the Heisman blogger, don't you think? Second - Update us on how the last 10 Heisman winners are faring in the NFL.