IT’S HERE! The 2016 Maxwell Award Watch List is out for “College Player of the Year.” According to MFC (Maxwell Football Club), “Each year the Maxwell Football Club presents the Maxwell Award for the College Player of the Year. This award is presented in honor of Robert W. (Tiny) Maxwell, legendary college player, official and sports columnist.”
Now, you might be thinking, “Who exactly votes for these players?” According to the MFC, voters for the Maxwell College Awards are NCAA Head College Football Coaches, members of the Maxwell Football Club & sportswriters and sportscasters from across the country.
Derrick Henry, running back for Alabama (now Tennessee Titan) and collector of prestigious college football awards such as the 2015 Maxwell Award and Heisman Trophy, will be a contributing voter this year!
On a side note, does anybody else think it’s funny that there are 2 Notre Dame players listed…and both are Quaterbacks…competing with each other? So yes, this is a “Watch List” indeed.
The Watch List is dominated by QBs & RBs but there are 16 WRs and just 2 TE’s worth mentioning.
Feast your CFB eyes!
If you’d like to geek out on the previous years winners, have at it!
| 2015 | Derrick Henry | Alabama |
| 2014 | Marcus Mariota | University of Oregon |
| 2013 | AJ McCarron | University of Alabama |
| 2012 | Manti Te’o | Notre Dame |
| 2011 | Andrew Luck | Stanford University |
| 2010 | Cam Newton | Auburn University |
| 2009 | Colt McCoy | University of Texas |
| 2008 | Tim Tebow | University of Florida |
| 2007 | Tim Tebow | University of Florida |
| 2006 | Brady Quinn | University of Notre Dame |
| 2005 | Vince Young | The University of Texas |
| 2004 | Jason White | University of Oklahoma |
| 2003 | Eli Manning | University of Mississippi |
| 2002 | Larry Johnson | Penn State University |
| 2001 | Ken Dorsey | University of Miami |
| 2000 | Drew Brees | Purdue University |
| 1999 | Ron Dayne | University of Wisconsin |
| 1998 | Ricky Williams | University of Texas |
| 1997 | Peyton Manning | Tennessee |
| 1996 | Danny Wuerffel | University of Florida |
| 1995 | Eddie George | Ohio State University |
| 1994 | Kerry Collins | Penn State University |
| 1993 | Charlie Ward | Florida State |
| 1992 | Gino Torretta | University of Miami |
| 1991 | Desmond Howard | University of Michigan |
| 1990 | Ty Detmer | Brigham Young University |
| 1989 | Anthony Thompson | University of Indiana |
| 1988 | Barry Sanders | Oklahoma State University |
| 1987 | Don McPherson | Syracuse University |
| 1986 | Vinny Testaverde | University of Miami |
| 1985 | Chuck Long | University of Iowa |
| 1984 | Doug Flutie | Boston College |
| 1983 | Mike Rozier | University of Nebraska |
| 1982 | Herschel Walker | University of Georgia |
| 1981 | Marcus Allen | University of Southern California |
| 1980 | Hugh Green | Pittsburgh University |
| 1979 | Charles White | University of Southern California |
| 1978 | Chuck Fusina | Penn State University |
| 1977 | Ross Browner | Notre Dame |
| 1976 | Tony Dorsett | University of Pittsburgh |
| 1975 | Archie Griffin | Ohio State |
| 1974 | Steve Joachim | Temple University |
| 1973 | John Cappelletti | Penn State University |
| 1972 | Brad Van Pelt | Michigan State |
| 1971 | Ed Marinaro | Cornell University |
| 1970 | Jim Plunkett | Stanford University |
| 1969 | Mike Reid | Penn State University |
| 1968 | OJ Simpson | University of Southern California |
| 1967 | Gary Beban | UCLA |
| 1966 | Jim Lynch | University of Notre Dame |
| 1965 | Tommy Nobis | University of Texas |
| 1964 | Glenn Ressler | Penn State University |
| 1963 | Roger Staubach | United States Naval Academy |
| 1962 | Terry Baker | Oregon State University |
| 1961 | Bob Furgeson | Ohio State University |
| 1960 | Joe Bellino | United States Naval Academy |
| 1959 | Richie Lucas | Penn State University |
| 1958 | Pete Dawkins | United States Military Academy |
| 1957 | Bob Reifsnyder | United States Naval Academy |
| 1956 | Tommy McDonald | Oklahoma State University |
| 1955 | Howard “Hopalong” Cassady | Ohio State University |
| 1954 | Ron Beagle | United States Naval Academy |
| 1953 | Johnny Lattner | Notre Dame |
| 1952 | Johnny Lattner | Notre Dame |
| 1951 | Richard Kazmaier | Princeton |
| 1950 | Francis “Reds” Bagnell | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1949 | Leon Hart | Notre Dame |
| 1948 | Chuck Bednarik | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1947 | Doak Walker | Southern Methodist University |
| 1946 | Charles Trippi | University of Georgia |
| 1945 | Doc Blanchard | West Point Academy |
| 1944 | Glenn Davis | West Point Academy |
| 1943 | Bob Odell | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1942 | Paul Governali | Columbia University |
| 1941 | Bill Dudley | University of Virginia |
| 1940 | Tom Harmon | University of Michigan |
| 1939 | Nile Kinnick | University of Iowa |
| 1938 | Davey O’Brien | Texas Christian University |
| 1937 | Clinton Frank | Yale |
