After being a Rimington Trophy finalist last season, Olu Oluwatimi was named to the Rimington Trophy Watch List on Friday morning for the 2022 football season.
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— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) July 22, 2022
Oluwatimi has joined the Wolverines as a graduate transfer after playing for the Virginia Cavaliers the past three seasons. The 310-pound center started 32 consecutive games for Virginia and played 910 snaps in 2021 which was the most of an ACC center. Oluwatimi was the first Rimington Trophy finalist in Virginia’s program history, and he was also named a second-team All-American in 2021.
Last season, Iowa’s Tyler Linderbaum won the Rimington Trophy.
The Rimington Trophy worked with PFF to put together a top-40 center watch list for the coveted trophy. In 2021 PFF ranked Oluwatimi the third-best run blocking center when he posted a 90.2 grade.
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in Division I College Football.
Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy’s only two-time winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman.
You can see the full watch list below.
| CONFERENCE | SCHOOL | FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | CLASS |
| ACC | ||||
| Clemson | Will | Putnam | SR | |
| Miami | Jakai | Clark | JR | |
| North Carolina State | Grant | Gibson | RS GRAD | |
| Virginia Tech | Johnny | Jordan | GRAD | |
| Wake Forest | Michael | Jurgens | JR | |
| American | ||||
| Memphis | Jacob | Likes | RS JR | |
| Tulane | Sincere | Haynesworth | JR | |
| UCF | Matt | Lee | RS JR | |
| Big 12 | ||||
| Baylor | Jacob | Gall | GRAD | |
| Iowa State | Trevor | Downing | RS SR | |
| Kansas | Mike | Novitsky | RS SR | |
| Oklahoma State | Preston | Wilson | SR JR | |
| TCU | Steve | Avila | SR | |
| West Virginia | Zach | Frazier | SO | |
| Big Ten | ||||
| Michigan | Olu | Oluwatimi | GRAD | |
| Minnesota | John Michael | Schmitz | SR | |
| Ohio State | Luke | Wypler Jr | JR | |
| Penn State | Juice | Scruggs | RS SR | |
| Purdue | Gus | Hartwig | RS SO | |
| Wisconsin | Joe | Tippmann | JR | |
| C-USA | ||||
| UAB | Will | Rykard | RS JR | |
| WKU | Rusty | Staats | RS JR | |
| Independent | ||||
| BYU | Connor | Pay | RS SO | |
| Notre Dame | Jarett | Patterson | GRAD | |
| MAC | ||||
| Western Michigan | Jacob | Gideon | RS SO | |
| Mountain West | ||||
| San Diego State | Alama | Uluave | SR | |
| PAC-12 | ||||
| California | Matthew | Cindric | SR | |
| Oregon | Alex | Forsyth | SR | |
| Oregon State | Jake | Levengood | RS JR | |
| Stanford | Drake | Nugent | SR | |
| USC | Brett | Neilon | RS SR | |
| SEC | ||||
| Arkansas | Ricky | Stromberg | SR | |
| Auburn | Nick | Brahms | SR | |
| Florida | Kingsley | Eguakun | RS SO | |
| Georgia | Sedrick | Van Pran | RS SO | |
| Mississippi State | LaQuinston | Sharp | RS SR | |
| Texas A&M | Bryce | Foster | SO | |
| Sun Belt | ||||
| Coastal Carolina | Willie | Lampkin | JR | |
| Georgia State | Malik | Sumter | RS SR | |
| Troy | Jake | Andrews | JR |
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