By Brendan Hall
Fan Fanatic Sports Staff
They say there are three seasons in college football: the fall season, the spring season, and magazine season. All the annual college football previews hit newsstands this month, and if you're like me you are eating it up. I'm one of those guys who could look at Street and Smith's for hours on end; heck, I even get the conference-specific ones.
I don't know why, but I love that feeling you get coming away from reading it, feeling like any team has the potential to run the table for reasons that escape us -- that is, until the cruel, harsh reality of the BCS sets in around Week 3.
Let's face it, there's not a whole lot of mystery with this year's Heisman race. In no particular order, the top three are going to be Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy. The two darkhorses are Jahvid Best from Cal and Jevan Snead from Ole Miss. Period.
With that in mind, I've devised my picks for first and second team All-Americans. I've got some wild cards in this deck:
First Team Offense
QB - Tim Tebow, Sr., Florida
RB - Jonathan Dwyer, Jr., Georgia Tech
RB - Jahvid Best, Jr., Cal
WR - Julio Jones, So., Alabama
WR - Arrelious Benn, Jr., Illinois
TE - Jermaine Gresham, Sr., Oklahoma
OL - Anthony Davis, Sr., Rutgers
OL - Adam Ulatowski, Sr., Texas
OL - Kris O'Dowd, Jr., USC
OL - Ciron Black, Sr., LSU
OL - Russell Okung, Sr., Oklahoma State
ATH - Javier Arenas, Sr., Alabama
PK - Kai Forbath, Jr., UCLA
First Team Defense
DL - Jerry Hughes, Sr., TCU
DL - George Selvie, Sr., South Florida
DL - Terrence Cody, Sr., Alabama
DL - Arthur Jones, Sr., Syracuse
LB - Brandon Spikes, Sr., Florida
LB - Mark Herzlich, Sr., Boston College
LB - Sean Weatherspoon, Sr., Missouri
DB - Taylor Mays, Sr., USC
DB - Eric Berry, Jr., Tennessee
DB - Kyle Wilson, Sr., Boise State
DB - Trevard Lindley, Sr., Kentucky
Ret - Brandon James, Sr., Florida
P - Derek Epperson, Jr., Baylor
Second Team Offense
QB - Colt McCoy, Sr., Texas
RB - Noel Devine, Jr., West Virginia
RB - Jacquizz Rodgers, So., Oregon State
WR - DeAndre Brown, So., Southern Miss
WR - Dez Bryant, Jr., Oklahoma State
TE - Dennis Pitta, Sr., BYU
OL - Trent Williams, Sr., Oklahoma
OL - Zane Beadles, Sr., Utah
OL - Rodney Hudson, Jr., Florida State
OL - Stefen Wisniewski, Jr., Penn State
OL - Mike Johnson, Sr., Alabama
ATH - C.J. Spiller, Sr., Clemson
K - Matt Bosher, Jr., Miami
Second Team Defense
DL - Sergio Kindle, Sr., Texas
DL - Ndamukong Suh, Sr., Nebraska
DL - Gerald McCoy, Jr., Oklahoma
DL - Brandon Graham, Sr., Michigan
LB - Stevenson Sylvester, Sr., Utah
LB - Rennie Curran, Jr., Georgia
LB - Greg Jones, Jr., Michigan State
DB - Syd'Quan Thompson, Sr., Cal
DB - Darrell Stuckey, Sr., Kansas
DB - Morgan Burnett, Jr., Georgia Tech
DB - Barry Church, Sr., Toledo
Ret - Mardy Gilyard, Sr., Cincinnati
P - Travis Baltz, Jr., Maryland
And for kicks, here's my All-Breakthrough team. As in, guys who are going to explode onto the scene and become household names this year:
ATH - Ray Ray Armstrong, Fr., Miami
RB - Jordan Todman, So., Connecticut
RB - Toby Gerhart, Sr., Stanford
RB - Christine Michael, Fr., Texas A&M
QB - Bo Levi Mitchell, So., SMU
QB - Joe Webb, Sr., UAB
WR - Jock Sanders, Jr., West Virginia
OL - Brandon Carter, Jr., Texas Tech (seriously, he'll be a household name)
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Is Herzlich going to be playing this season? I haven't heard much about him since the story came out about his cancer
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping that he has the best of luck in his treatment and that he makes a quick recovery.
ReplyDeleteNESN did have a story a few week back saying that it was unlikely that he will play football again, but that his treatment was going well and he may be back on campus this fall.