Notre Dame just completed its second perfect regular season in three years, and that has not gone unnoticed. On Monday, various college football awards released their semifinalist lists. That brought a whole bunch of good news for the Irish. Four Notre Dame players are up for five of the most coveted awards in the land.
Ian Book made two semifinalist lists: The Maxwell Award for the Collegiate Player of the Year and the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, for which he previously was named a semifinalist in 2018. Kyren Williams is the only freshman, either true or redshirt, to make the list for the Doak Walker Award, which honors the top running back both on and off the field. Both Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah and Kyle Hamilton are up for the Chuck Bedarnik Award for Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year.
When you have a season like the Irish just had, hardware is bound to come your way, and the chances of that happening in 2020 just got a nice boost.