College Football Awards - Lsu Has Big Night Awards Show

Justin Blackmon involving Oklahoma State started to be your second two-time winner on the Biletnikof Award since the nation's excellent receiver.

Alabama's Trent Richardson, one more Heisman finalist, claimed your Doak Walker Award since the top going back, plus Alabama teammate Barrett Jones won that Claiborne, who represents the particular some other place with LSU's defense, said the Tigers' legitimate decided not to count on to forget a beat soon after Peterson graduated towards NFL's Arizona Cardinals.

"Just because many of us displaced your excellent battler won't indicate another excellent gambler can not be born," Claiborne said. "We constantly noticed (Peterson) such as he has the actual man, and that was a major component of it. We reported we've got to receive backside and obtain Thorpe merit again. He always put that will inside our ear."

Top-ranked and also undefeated LSU will certainly participate in Alabama while in the BCS nationwide championship game Jan. 9.

"I've place in a lot of difficult work along with I'm unquestionably surrounded by just a bunch involving males of which generate me personally a terrific player," Mathieu said. "We've put our-self properly to help win some sort of nationwide championship."

He's not so guaranteed he's inside a very good placement being the initial defensive Heisman Trophy winner considering Michigan's Charles Woodson inside 1997.

"I'm undoubtedly a Heisman lengthy shot, being defensive player," he said. "At very least that is certainly what exactly record says."

Griffin is the seventh quarterback from the Big 12 to win that O'Brien award inside the last 11 years. He was picked over Luck as well as Houston's Case Keenum, the nation's moving past chief using 392.2 yards per game, 45 touchdown subsides and exclusively all 5 interceptions. Griffin (333.2 back yards for each game, 36 touchdown passes, six interceptions) contributed Baylor with a 9-3 time of year plus a great Alamo Bowl berth.

Blackmon caught 113 goes over to get 1,336 back yards and also 12-15 touchdowns to work with Texas Tech's Michael Crabtree (2007-08) being a two-time Biletnikof winner.