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Texas Football: Longhorns honored with Big 12 and National honors

D’Shawn Jamison, Joseph Ossai and head coach Tom Herman were all recipients of weekly honors for the victory over Oklahoma State 41-34.

Taking down a top ten team is no easy task. Especially when it comes on the road but the Texas Longhorns found a way to pull it off. It was the first instance this happened for the Horns since they beat the No. 5 Nebraska Cornhuskers in 2010. The last time this team pulled off a victory over a top ten team on the road they followed it up with loss, let’s hope that history is not on the Longhorns side.

One of the players that was a key cog for the Longhorns victory was D’Shawn Jamison. He returned a kickoff 100 yards for a score to immediately answer Oklahoma State.

The kickoff returned for a score was the only scoring play for the Longhorns in the third quarter. That kept them within striking distance for the win they secured for their efforts. D’Shawn Jamison took home Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week.

As big as the return by Jamison was, no one had the impact of ‘Jack’ Joseph Ossai. He secured the walk-off sack that gave the Longhorns the victory. In the game he led the team in tackles with 12. Six of which were tackles for loss. Couple those stats with three sacks, one fumble forced on a strip sack and a fumble recovery. That is much the reason that Ossai was the talk of college football on Saturday.

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Not only did Joseph Ossai pick up Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors but also three other national honors for his performance. Walter Camp Football Foundation, Chuck Bednarik Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy Player of the Week also went the way of the Longhorns top defender. Not a bad week for Ossai. With that performance National NFL Draft analysts are circling him as a potential first round draft pick. B/R’s Matt Miller even mocked him as high as No. 16 in his latest mock draft.

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These two defensive players weren’t the only individuals associated with the Longhorns to earn weekly honors. Texas head coach Tom Herman was named Coach of the Week by the Dodd Trophy. The award given annually to the top coaches in all of FBS. Herman was named to the preseason watchlist earlier this year.

Gus Malzahn named to 2020 Dodd Trophy Preseason Watch List

The award is given annually to the head coach whose team excels on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

Five coaches from the SEC have been named to the 2020 Dodd Trophy Preseason Watch List and Auburn’s Gus Malzahn is one of them.

The watch list was released on Thursday and Malzahn finds his name alongside Nick Saban, Ed Orgeron, Kirby Smart and Dan Mullen as representatives from the conference.

The Dodd Trophy, college football’s most coveted national coaching award, celebrates the head coach of a team who enjoys success on the gridiron, while also stressing the importance of scholarship, leadership and integrity – the three pillars of legendary coach Bobby Dodd’s coaching philosophy.

The watch list was created through a selection process by the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, taking into consideration each program’s graduation rate, commitment to service and charity in the community, projected success for the 2020 season and Academic Progress Rate (APR). Coaches in the first year with their current team are ineligible to receive The Dodd Trophy and only those coaches who have played during the fall season will be eligible for this year’s award.

Interestingly enough, Boise State’s Chris Petersen won the award in 2010 over Gene Chizik while Malzahn wasn’t eligible during his first year in 2013. The award instead went to Duke’s David Cutcliffe.

Locked on Longhorns Podcast: ‘Top 25 and Tom Herman on award watch list’

The Locked on Longhorns podcast discusses the Locked on Podcast Top 25. Plus Texas head coach Tom Herman named to award watch list.

The Locked on Podcast Top 25 was released. Where does Texas rank on the initial ranking? This was voted on by the hosts on the Locked on Podcast network. Any surprises on the list?

On the crazy side of college football the Big Ten news just keeps coming. Buckeyes Wire reported that a vote could take place on Friday to determine plans for fall football. Just another crazy twist in the Big Ten saga coming off the heels of Nebraska players filing a lawsuit against the conference.

The head coach of the Texas Longhorns has made the list for the Dodd Trophy. It is given to the top coach in college football that meets certain criteria. Tom Herman was named to last year’s list as well but failed to be named a finalist.

Herman has often been linked to being on the hot seat but USA TODAY Sports writer Dan Wolken stated that there won’t be any hot seats. Given the state of college athletics, it would be difficult to justify having a coach on the hotseat. If a coach is fired during the season, could you justify a buyout given the issues with finances? Plus celebrity chef Guy Fieri received a special delivery from Longhorns legendary running back Earl Campbell.

College football returns to the field on Thursday night. What are the game picks for the two games? Central Arkansas travels to Alabama-Birmingham plus South Alabama against Southern Miss. Not to mention our biggest surprise of the week.

Gators head coach Dan Mullen named to Dodd Trophy preseason watch list

Gators coach Dan Mullen has gained quite a bit of national prominence after just two seasons in Gainesville, and that is starting to show.

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Gators coach Dan Mullen has gained quite a bit of national prominence after just two seasons in Gainesville, and that is starting to show on national coaching award watch lists.

The Bobby Dodd Trophy is given annually to the nation’s top coach, and Mullen was one of 13 coaches nominated for this year’s preseason watch list. Last year’s winner was Utah’s Kyle Wittingham.

He’s joined on the list by fellow SEC coaches Ed Orgeron of LSU, Nick Saban of Alabama, Kirby Smart of Georgia and Guz Malzahn of Auburn. With five coaches represented, the SEC leads all conferences on the Dodd watch list.

The award is limited to coaches whose teams will be competing this fall, so only the SEC, ACC, Big 12 and AAC are represented. However, nine other coaches from the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Mountain West, all of which have canceled their fall seasons, met the criteria for the Dodd Trophy watch list and were recognized accordingly.

The watch list will be narrowed midway through the season to semifinalists and later to finalists after the conclusion of the regular season. The winner will be announced in Atlanta the week of the Peach Bowl.

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