College Football Awards Winners - Florida's Tebow & LSU's Dorsey Win Major Awards

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College Football '07 Award Winners
Florida's Tim Tebow Wins Maxwell & O'Brien Awards
LSU's Glenn Dorsey wins Outland & Nagurski Trophies

Photo - Florida - QB Tim Tebow 
 
players listed alphabetically)
List of all Finalists - x - This year's winner

Maxwell Award (best all-around player)

Dennis Dixon - QB - Oregon
Darren McFadden - RB - Arkansas
x - Tim Tebow - QB - Florida

Outland Trophy (best interior lineman)

Anthony Collins - OT - Kansas
x - Glenn Dorsey - DT - Louisiana St
Jake Long - OT - Michigan

Rotary Lombardi Winner 
x - Glenn Dorsey - DT - LSU

Davey Oâ€™Brien National Quarterback Award

Chase Daniel - Missouri
Dennis Dixon - Oregon
x - Tim Tebow - Florida

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Winner 
x - QB Matt Ryan - Boston College

Doak Walker Award (best running back)

Mike Hart - Michigan
x- Darren McFadden - Arkansas
Ray Rice - Rutgers

2007 Bronko Nagurski Trophy

James Laurinaitis - LB - Ohio St.
x - Glenn Dorsey DT - LSU 
Chris Long - DE - Virginia
George Selvie DE - South Florida
Aqib Talib - CB - Kansas
(The winner was announced on Dec. 3 and presented the Trophy in Charlotte, N.C.)

Chuck Bednarik Trophy(best defensive player)

x - Dan Connor - LB - Penn St
Glenn Dorsey - DT - Louisiana St
James Laurinaitis - LB - Ohio St

Jim Thorpe Award (best defensive back)

x - Antoine Cason - CB - Arizona
Jamie Silva - S - Boston College
Craig Steltz - S - Louisiana St

Biletnikoff Award (best wide receiver)

x - Michael Crabtree - Texas Tech
Mario Manningham - Michigan
Jordy Nelson - Kansas St

John Mackey Award (best tight end)

Gary Barnidge â€“ Sr. - Louisville
Travis Beckum â€“ Jr. - Wisconsin
Chase Coffman â€“ Jr. - Missouri
x - Fred Davis â€“ Sr. - USC
Jermaine Gresham â€“ So.- Oklahoma
Darius Hill â€“ Jr. - Ball St
Dustin Keller â€“ Sr. - Purdue
Martin Rucker â€“ Sr. - Missouri

Chris Long Wins Ted Hendricks Award 
Chris Long of the University of Virginia is this yearâ€™s winner. Long claimed more than 60% of the final-round votes â€“ a new record for the Hendricks Award.
The Atlantic Coast Conferenceâ€™s Defensive Player of the Year, Chris Long led the ACC and was third in the NCAA â€“ FBS in sacks (14.0). This sack total equaled or surpassed the total recorded by 12 NCAA teams. Long also led his conference with 19.0 tackles-for-loss (tied for 8th in NCAA). One-quarter of Longâ€™s 75 tackles this season were made behind the line of scrimmage.

Longâ€™s accolades this season include: 
- First-Team All-America honors from the American Football Coaches Association
- First-Team All-America honors from Rivals.com
- First-Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors
- Finalist for the Lott, Lombardi and Nagurski Awards
- Two-time ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week.

Rimington Trophy - best Center

Steve Justice - Wake Forest 
Kory Lichtensteiger - Bowling Green  
x - Jonathan Luigs - Arkansas 
Alex Mack - California 
Adam Spieker - Missouri 
Cody Wallace - Texas A&M

Manning Finalists - best QB

Erik Ainge - Tennessee 
Sam Bradford - Oklahoma 
Colt Brennan - Hawaii 
Chase Daniel - Missouri 
Dennis Dixon - Oregon 
Graham Harrell - Texas Tech 
Matt Ryan - Boston College 
Tim Tebow - Florida 
Patrick White - West Virginia 
Andreâ€™ Woodson - Kentucky

Butkus â€™07 Award Finalists (best linebacker)

Dan Connor - 6â€™1â€? 240 lbs. - Penn St
Jordon Dizon - 6â€™ 230 lbs. - Colorado
x - James Laurinaitis - 6â€™3â€? 245 lbs. - Ohio St.

Ted Hendricks Midseason List

Eric  	Bakhtiari - 	Univ. of San Diego - 	6'4"  	260
Kroy 	Biermann -	Montana -	 	6'3" 	241
Victor 	Butler -		Oregon St - 	 	6'2" 	234
Calais 	Campbell -	Miami -	 		6'8" 	280
Bruce 	Davis -		UCLA -		 	6'3" 	230
Will 	Davis -		Illinois -		 	6'3" 	246
Larry 	English -	Northern Illinois -	 	6'3" 	255
Auston 	English -	Oklahoma -	 	6'3" 	253
Maurice Evans -		Penn St - 	 	6'2" 	257
Vernon 	Gholston -	Ohio St - 	 	6'4" 	265
Wallace Gilberry -	Alabama -	 	6'4" 	265
Brandon Graham -	        Michigan -		6'2" 	270
Rudolph Hardie -		Howard University -	6'1" 	270
Greg 	Hardy -		Mississippi -	 	6'5" 	255
Derrick Harvey -		Florida -	 		6'5" 	235
Anthony Hoke -		Cincinnati -	 	6'1" 	255
Phillip Hunt -		Houston -		6'2" 	250
Jeremy 	Jarmon -		Kentucky -		6'3" 	268
Brian 	Johnston -	Gardner-Webb -	 	6'5" 	280
x - Chris Long -		Virginia -	 	6'4" 	278
Bryan 	Mattison -	Iowa -	 		6'3" 	272
Greg 	Middleton -	Indiana -	 		6'3" 	270
Chase 	Ortiz -		TCU -	 		6'3" 	255
Nathan 	Peterson -	Oklahoma St - 	6'2" 	240
Nick 	Reed -		Oregon -	 		6'2" 	255
Jonal 	Saint-Dic -	Michigan St - 	 	6'1" 	255
Trevor 	Scott -		Buffalo -	 		6'5" 	252
George 	Selvie -		South Florida -	 	6'4" 	242
Matt 	Shaughnessy -	Wisconsin -	 	6'6" 	250
Hilee 	Taylor -		North Carolina -		6'3" 	245

Draddy Trophy Finalists - Academic Heisman

Football Bowl Subdivision: 
Alex Brink - QB - Washington St
John Carlson - TE - Notre Dame
Dennis Dixon - QB - Oregon 
x - Dallas Griffin - OL - Texas 
Mike Klinkenborg - LB - Iowa 
J Leman - LB - Illinois 
Brandon Renkart - LB - Rutgers 
Paul Smith - QB - Tulsa 
Jacob Tamme - TE - Kentucky

Football Championship Subdivision: 
Nick Clark - DE - Texas St
Brandon Cramer - S - Dayton

Division II: 
Michael Eubanks - LB - Delta St University (Ms.)
Danny Woodhead - RB - Chadron St (Neb)

Division III: 
Eric Safran - OC - Mount Union College (Oh)
Jake Weller - DB - Illinois College).

Lou Groza Award - Collegiate (best Place-Kicker)

Jose Martinez - University of Texas at El Paso
Austin Starr - Indiana
x - Thomas Weber - Arizona St

Ray Guy Award (best punter)

x - Durant Brooks - Georgia Tech
Kevin Huber - Cincinnati
Brett Kern - Toledo

*2006 award winner

Frank Coyle is a longtime member of the FWAA and votes in all the major college awards - the Heisman Trophy, Lombardi, Outland, Jim Thorpe including all the defensive awards. He is also a voter for the FWAA on the College team polls, the Grantland Rice Polls. He is a nationwide radio and TV personality and makes frequent appearances on sports talk shows from coast to coast. He has been a regular guest on major radio shows such as the Score in Chicago, Sporting News Radio, ESPN Radio nationwide, WEEI Boston, WFAN in New York and Sports Extra in San Diego as well as every major sports talk show nationwide. His Heisman Trophy and Jim Thorpe Award ballots are released annually in early Dec. He is the main consultant for the Senior Bowl, in addition to other postseason All-star classics like the East Coast Bowl.

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