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No Michigan State Football players on AP Preseason All-America Team

Michigan State didn’t have a single player make this year’s preseason All-American Team.

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Despite some conferences postponing their season, the Associated Press still released their Preseason All-American Team last week. Although it’s not a major surprise, there were no Michigan State Football players on the First or Second team.

Michigan State’s best shot to have a player on the team was probably linebacker Antjuan Simmons, and I think that once the season resumes he could still have a chance to earn his way into that conversation.

Last year, Michigan State had two players make the AP’s Preseason All-American: defensive end Kenny Willekes and linebacker Joe Bachie.

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6 Alabama players named to AP pre-season All-American list

On Tuesday, three Alabama football players were named Associated Press preseason first-team All-Americans.

On Tuesday, three Alabama football players were named Associated Press preseason first-team All-Americans. There were also three Alabama players named to the second team as well.

Representing the Crimson Tide on the preseason first team All-American list was wide receiver DeVonta Smith, linebacker Dylan Moses and offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood.

Running back Najee Harris and wide receiver Jaylen Waddle,  (as an all-purpose player) and cornerback Patrick Surtain represented Alabama on the second team list.

Alabama had the most players on both the first team, as well as overall on both lists.

Also, it’s important to note that 23 of the AP’s 50 preseason All-Americans will not play this season.

Here’s the full list of both the first and second team preseason All-Americans:

First Team

Offense

Quarterback — Trevor Lawrence, junior, Clemson.

Running backs — Chuba Hubbard, junior, Oklahoma State; Travis Etienne, senior, Clemson.

Tackles — Penei Sewell, junior, Oregon; Alex Leatherwood, senior, Alabama.

Guards — Wyatt Davis, junior, Ohio State; Trey Smith, senior, Tennessee.

Center — Creed Humphrey, junior, Oklahoma.

Tight end — Pat Freiermuth, junior, Penn State.

Receivers — Ja’Marr Chase, junior, LSU; DeVonta Smith, senior, Alabama.

All-purpose player — Rondale Moore, junior, Purdue.

Kicker — Keith Duncan, senior, Iowa.

Defense

Ends —Kayvon Thibodeaux, sophomore, Oregon; Gregory Rousseau, junior, Miami.

Tackles — Marvin Wilson, senior, Florida State; Jaylen Twyman, junior, Pitt.

Linebackers — Micah Parsons, junior, Penn State; Hamilcar Rashed Jr., senior, Oregon State; Dylan Moses, senior, Alabama.

Cornerbacks — Derek Stingley Jr., sophomore, LSU;Shaun Wade, junior, Ohio State.

Safeties — Richard LeCounte, senior, Georgia; Andre Cisco, junior, Syracuse.

Punter — Max Duffy, senior, Kentucky.

Second Team

Offense

Quarterback — Justin Fields, junior, Ohio State.

Running backs — Najee Harris, senior, Alabama; Kenneth Gainwell, sophomore, Memphis.

Tackles — Samuel Cosmi, junior, Texas; Cole Van Lanen, senior, Wisconsin.

Guards — Nolan Laufenberg, senior, Air Force; Alijah Vera-Tucker, junior, Southern California.

Center — Tyler Linderbaum, junior, Iowa.

Tight end — Charlie Kolar, junior, Iowa State.

Receivers — Tylan Wallace, senior, Oklahoma State; Rashod Bateman, junior, Minnesota.

All-purpose player — Jaylen Waddle, junior, Alabama.

Kicker — Gabe Brkic, sophomore, Oklahoma.

Defense

Ends — Carlos Basham, senior, Wake Forest; Quincy Roche, senior, Miami.

Tackles — Jay Tufele, junior, Southern California; Levi Onwuzurike, senior, Washington.

Linebackers — Chazz Surratt senior, North Carolina; Nick Bolton, junior, Missouri; Paddy Fisher, senior, Northwestern.

Cornerbacks — Patrick Surtain II, junior, Alabama; Caleb Farley, junior, Virginia Tech.

Safeties — Jevon Holland, junior, Oregon; Trevon Moehrig, junior, TCU.

Punter — Adam Korsak, junior, Rutgers.

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Notre Dame Football: Irish shut out from AP Preseason All-American Team

The AP announced their preseason All-American teams on Tuesday. See who made the first and second teams since no Notre Dame players did.

In a busy week for the Associated Press before college football kicks off in a few short weeks, the Preseason All-American Team was announced on Tuesday with no Notre Dame players being named to the squad.

The team is composed of players from teams who will both be playing and not being playing this fall.

11 players on the AP’s first-team and an additional 12 on the second team won’t see action this season which speaks to the volume of talent that won’t be viewed on college football fields this fall.

Complete First Team:

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Six Big Ten teams make first AP Top-25 of the 2020 College Football season

There were six Big Ten teams featured in the first AP Poll of the 2020 college football season. Michigan State was not one of those.

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The Big Ten has officially postponed their season, but many fans of Big Ten schools who were projected to have big football seasons will still need to endure some more heartbreak as the first AP Top-25 ranking of the 2020 college football season dropped on Monday and six Big Ten schools were featured. For those wondering, Michigan State was not on the list..

The Big Ten teams who made the Top-25 were:

  • No. 2 Ohio State
  • No. 7 Penn State
  • No. 12 Wisconsin
  • No. 16 Michigan
  • No. 19 Minnesota
  • No. 24 Iowa

Ohio State was one of the heavy favorites to win the National Championship, which is a big reason why their fans and players were so adamant about wanting to play, and not postpone, the 2020 season. Buckeyes starting QB Justin Fields was one of the most vocal players in the country about the decision, even going so far as to start a petition to reinstate the season.

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Michigan State PG Cassius Winston named AP Second-Team All-American

Cassius Winston has been named a Second-Team All-American by the Associated Press.

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The Associated Press released their NCAA Men’s Basketball All-American Teams today, and Michigan State point guard and captain Cassius Winston was named an AP Second-Team All-American.

This is Winston’s second year in a row receiving All-American honors from the Associated Press, making him the first Spartan to earn consecutive All-American honors since Mateen Cleaves (1998-2000). Of course, that is just another somewhat bittersweet parallel between Cleaves and Winston. Cleaves won a national championship in 2000 while Winston was robbed of that opportunity due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Nevertheless, it was an absolute honor to watch Winston’s journey at Michigan State, particularly in this final season where he overcame immense personal tragedy to end the season with perhaps the greatest stretch of his young career, leading the Spartans to a third straight Big Ten Regular Season Championship on his way out of East Lansing.

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Notre Dame Football: Final AP Poll Rankings

Navy of all teams ends up being the only ranked team Notre Dame beat in 2019, a 52-20 domination in November

After LSU defeated Clemson on Monday night there wasn’t much debate as to how really 1-3 would look in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll, but where might Notre Dame land was a question for Fighting Irish fans.

I went through that a bit last week and made my best guess here, where I had Notre Dame checking in at 11.

Well, the final poll is out and I was pretty close, but not perfectly on.

  1. LSU
  2. Clemson
  3. Ohio State
  4. Georgia
  5. Oregon
  6. Florida
  7. Oklahoma
  8. Alabama
  9. Penn State
  10. Minnesota
  11. Wisconsin
  12. Notre Dame
  13. Baylor
  14. Auburn
  15. Iowa
  16. Utah
  17. Memphis
  18. Michigan
  19. Appalachian State
  20. Navy
  21. Cincinnati
  22. Air Force
  23. Boise State
  24. UCF
  25. Texas

So I was wrong in having Wisconsin drop further than they ended up doing, I just thought that two losses in a row to end the year, against top-notch competition or not would see them drop further.

Perhaps the most interesting thing in the final AP Poll for Notre Dame fans isn’t that they finished 12 instead of 11 or crack the top 10, but instead that Navy of all teams ends up being the only ranked team Notre Dame beat in 2019, a 52-20 domination in November.