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February 19th, 2024 The LSU Tiger talks getting ready for next season's NFL Draft & traning with former Texas Rangers coach Tom House. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X Listen to past episodes on The Ticket's Website And follow The Ticket Top 10 on Apple, Spotify or Amazon MusicSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Washington Huskies are expecting to lose a good portion of their starting lineup to the NFL Draft and therefore will be very active in the transfer portal There are already rumors swirling about Washington extending an NIL offer to Washington State quarterback Cam Ward and they will be expected to compete for a lot of the top names in the transfer portal, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Locked On Huskies hosts Roman Tomashoff and Lars Hanson discuss what positions Kalen DeBoer's coaching staff will need to address over the course of the offseason, as well as Rome Odunze's chances at the Biletnikoff Award, along with Michael Penix Jr's best shot to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Davey O'Brien Award. Locked On Huskies is part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply. eBay Motors With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it's easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. PrizePicks Go to PrizePicks.com/lockedoncollege and use code lockedoncollege for a first deposit match up to $100! Daily Fantasy Sports Made Easy!  Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel Score early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bobby and Steve discussed traditional rivalries in college football. Bobby explained why LSU should play Tulane every year. The guys projected LSU QB Jayden Daniels' Heisman odds. Tulane head football coach Willie Fritz joined Bobby and Steve to review the Green Wave's 30-28 win at Rice. Fritz broke down Tulane's clutch game-winning drive. He also evaluated RB Makhi Hughes and celebrated QB Michael Pratt's recognition for the Davey O'Brien Award. Steve and Bobby shared their thoughts on the initial College Football Playoff rankings. The guys previewed the Saints' matchup against the Bears. Bobby gave stats about the upcoming battle between New Orleans and Chicago. 

Tulane head football coach Willie Fritz joined Bobby and Steve to review the Green Wave's 30-28 win at Rice. Fritz broke down Tulane's clutch game-winning drive. He evaluated RB Makhi Hughes and celebrated QB Michael Pratt's recognition for the Davey O'Brien Award. Fritz also previewed their upcoming matchup vs. East Carolina. 

In this special Davey O'Brien Award episode we take you inside the awards banquet with thoughts from previous winners and words from the man of the hour himself, Max Duggan. We also celebrate another TCU championship for the men's tennis team, the newly crowned ITA Division I Indoor Tennis Champions.

Going from 1-11 to 13-0 he and PJ Fleck teamed up to change the culture of a program! Senior quarterback Zach Terrell was a proven winner on the field and in the classroom for Western Michigan University. As a senior, he was the winner of the 2016 William V. Campbell Trophy, awarded to the nation's outstanding scholar-athlete. Terrell completed his bachelors' degree in December 2015, in finance and then went on to pursue his MBA, in which he held a 4.0 grade point average. Terrell was a three-time Distinguished Academic All-MAC selection, and he earned the 2016 Mid-American Conference Vern Smith Leadership Award. During his senior season with the Broncos, he was named as a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy, presented to the student-athlete who best excels at community service, academics and athletics. Terrell also was a member of the 2016 AFCA All-State Good Works Team, just one of 12 players in the FBS to earn that honor. A four-year starter, Zach began his career with the Broncos in 2012. He erased nearly every Bronco passing record, including career passing yards with 11,947, which placed him fourth all-time in MAC history. Entering the Goodyear Cotton Bowl game, he had 95 career touchdown passes, second most in Western Michigan history and fourth most in MAC history. Terrell held a touchdown-interception ratio of 32-3, the best among any quarterback in the nation in 2016 with 30 or more TD passes. Overall, his 32 regular-season TD passes were the 10th most in the country. Terrell also ranked third in the country during his final collegiate season in completion percentage at 70.8 percent and fourth in passing efficiency at 180.6. He was named Manning Star of the Week twice as a senior along with earning MAC Offensive Player of the Week honors. Along with awards for his performance off the field, Terrell was a semifinalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, Davey O'Brien Award and Manning Award. To View This Episode- https://youtu.be/159ubaSQp8Q #whoknewinthemoment #ZacharyTerrell #westernmichigan #nfl

Vince Young is a former NFL quarterback that played 5 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and 1 season with the Philadelphia Eagles! VY is known as one of the greatest NCAA quarterbacks of all time, having played his college career at the University of Texas. Vince was selected as the cover athlete for Madden '08 and several awards including the Davey O'Brien Award, NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, & Sporting News NFL Comeback Player of the Year, among others.

An illustrious coaching heritage is embedded in the foundation of Clemson football. At the dawn of the 20th century, the Tigers were led by future College Football Hall of Famer John Heisman. Hall of Famers Jess Neely, Frank Howard and Danny Ford followed in Heisman's winning tradition. Now entering his 15th season (and 14th full season) as Clemson's head coach, Dabo Swinney has already carved his name into that foundation, elevating himself amid a pantheon of Clemson greats by becoming the first coach in program history to lead Clemson to multiple national championships. Swinney's stratospheric start to his head coaching career placed his record not only among Clemson legends but also among the names of the winningest leaders in the more than 150 years of major college football. With his final win of the 2021 season, Swinney reached 150 career wins in his 186th game as head coach. In terms of games played, Swinney became the sixth-fastest coach in FBS history — and the fourth-fastest in the modern era — to earn 150 career wins, trailing Urban Meyer (176), Gil Dobie (180), Barry Switzer (180), Fielding Yost (184) and Joe Paterno (184). Entering 2022, only 16 coaches in FBS history including Swinney had accomplished the feat within 200 games, and 14 of the 16 had been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, with the lone exceptions being Swinney and Meyer, both of whom are not yet eligible. The 150th win came in Swinney's 13th full season and his 14th season overall including his seven-game interim stint in 2008. He moved into third place in FBS history for the most coaching wins in the first 15 seasons of a head coaching career, trailing only Meyer (165) and Bob Stoops (160). Swinney will have the opportunity to take aim at both in his 15th season as head coach in 2022. Though other seasons resulted in more hardware, analysts and observers opined that 2021 might have been Swinney's best coaching job, as the Tiger mentor guided his team through adversity and attrition to overcome a 2-2 start to finish 10-3 and extend Clemson's streak of consecutive 10-win seasons to 11. Clemson entered that October as one of 28 Power Five teams with two or more losses, yet concluded the season along as one of only two of those 28 programs to finish the season having reached 10 wins. Swinney's 2021 Tigers played seven one-possession games, one shy of the school record, and went 5-2 in those contests. The squad's success came in spite of tremendous turnover and attrition, as 48 different players earned at least one start, eight more than started in the pandemic-impacted 2020 season. Only 23 Clemson players played in all 13 games, and only four offensive or defensive players started all 13. Between injuries and transfers, Swinney held aloft the 2021 Cheez-It Bowl trophy following a game Clemson finished without the services of 30 scholarship players from its initial fall roster. A year earlier, Swinney's squad accomplished its “double-double mission” in 2020, going 10-2 in a condensed season to give Clemson 10 consecutive 10-win seasons. Clemson became only the third program in FBS history to accomplish the feat and became the first school to win 10 games in 10 straight seasons as a member of the ACC, as only the final nine of Florida State's record 14-straight 10-win seasons came during the Seminoles' tenure in the ACC. The pandemic-affected 2020 campaign was a historic one for the Tigers both as a team and individually, as quarterback Trevor Lawrence ascended to become the winningest quarterback in school history (34-2) and running back Travis Etienne added the ACC's all-time rushing crown (4,952 yards) to his arsenal of school and conference records. Etienne's versatility as a rusher and receiver earned him consensus All-American honors as an all-purpose selection, while Lawrence became the second Heisman Trophy finalist in program history, tying Deshaun Watson (second in 2016) for the highest finish in Heisman Trophy voting in school history. The prolific backfield duo under Swinney's tutelage helped guide Clemson to its sixth consecutive outright conference title with a 34-10 win against Notre Dame in the ACC Championship Game. That day, Clemson and Oklahoma's six-year streaks of outright conference titles made the two programs the first among current Power Five programs to win at least six straight outright titles since Oklahoma (12 from 1948-59) as part of the now-dissolved Big 8 Conference. The conference title helped Clemson secure its record-tying sixth College Football Playoff berth, becoming the first program ever to reach the postseason tournament in six consecutive seasons. Clemson is 6-4 all-time in College Football Playoff games, the second-most wins of any program and twice the number of the third-place programs (three, Georgia and Ohio State). Clemson finished the 2020 season as the nation's No. 3-ranked squad, the Tigers' sixth consecutive top-four finish in the AP poll. In doing so, Swinney joined Bobby Bowden (13), Pete Carroll (7) and Bud Wilkinson (6) as the only coaches since the AP Poll's inception in 1936 to record six consecutive top-four finishes. In that stretch, Clemson appeared in the top five of 57 consecutive AP Polls, the second-longest streak in poll history. Clemson entered the third decade of the 21st century in 2020 after Swinney helped author one of the most prolific 10-year periods in the history of the sport. Clemson posted a 117-22 record under Swinney's leadership in the 2010s, and the program's 117 wins trailed only Penn (124 in the 1890s) and Alabama (124 in the 2010s) to tie for the third-most in a decade in major college football since 1890. Clemson's 117 wins in 2010s represented the first 100-win decade in Clemson history. Before a pandemic-shortened season in 2020, Clemson won at least 12 games in five straight seasons from 2015-19, tied for the longest such streak in the modern era and only two seasons shy of Penn's record seven-season streak from 1892-98. Clemson won 69 games in that five-year span, the most in a five-year stretch in the AP Poll era. In 2019, the Tigers earned their fifth consecutive College Football Playoff berth following their fifth-consecutive ACC title, becoming the first team in college football history to win five straight conference championship games since conference title games were created in 1992.  Clemson posted a 14-1 record that year, earning its fourth appearance in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in five years. Prior to the season finale, Clemson extended its school-record winning streak to 29 games, tied with Florida State (2012-14) for the longest streak in ACC history and for the 12th-longest in FBS history. Clemson dominated the vast majority of its 2019 opponents, including an eight-game streak of wins by 30 or more points to break the longest streak in the AP Poll era, surpassing the previous mark of seven games set by 2011 Houston and 1976 Michigan. At 150-36, Swinney (.806) enters the 2022 season as the winningest active coach by percentage in the FBS among coaches with at least 10 seasons of head coaching experience. With an initial hire date of Oct. 13, 2008, he is the senior member of the ACC's head coaching fraternity and enters 2022 as the ninth-longest-tenured head coach in the FBS.  Clemson's success on the gridiron has been matched by its prowess in the classroom, as prior to the NCAA suspending APR reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, Clemson was one of only three programs to earn top-10 percent APR recognition from the NCAA in at least nine of the previous 10 years, joining Duke and Northwestern. Clemson was in the top 10 of APR scores and the final top 25 of the AP and USA Today polls from 2011-15, the only FBS program that could make that claim. In 2017, Clemson became the first school to reach the College Football Playoff and finish in the top five of APR scores in the same year.  Clemson also produced the 2018 William V. Campbell Trophy winner (known colloquially as the “Academic Heisman”) in Christian Wilkins and won the program's first AFCA Academic Achievement Award. Clemson repeated as AFCA Academic Achievement Award recipients in 2019, becoming the only school in the country to repeat and doing so while appearing in the national championship game in both seasons. Swinney and Clemson's 2018 season was one for which statistics and superlatives accumulated in historic fashion. The Tigers became the first major college football team in the modern era (and the first since Penn in 1897) to finish a season with a 15-0 record.  The list of “firsts” was long and distinguished. Clemson became the first program to win four consecutive Atlantic Division titles, and with a 42-10 win against Pittsburgh in the ACC Championship Game, it became the first program to win four straight ACC titles outright.  Clemson's 15 wins included a school-record 12 against teams who finished with winning records. Clemson won by an average margin of 31.1 points per game, the best in the nation and the second-largest in school history, trailing only a 35.3-point average margin in 1900. Among the seasons it passed was a 30.4-point average margin in 1901, a season in which Clemson won one of its five games by a score of 122-0. Clemson set school records in points (664) and total offense (7,718, also an ACC record). The defense held opponents to 13.1 points per game, leading the country in scoring defense for the first time in school history.  A critical point in the season came four games into the campaign. Following a 49-21 win at Georgia Tech in which true freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence threw for four touchdowns in reserve, Swinney and the coaching staff elected to name Lawrence the starter, supplanting senior Kelly Bryant, who had led the Tigers to a 16-2 career record as a starter.  With Lawrence leading Swinney's Tigers, Clemson took flight. After a dramatic come-from-behind 27-23 win against Syracuse in which Lawrence exited the game with an injury, Clemson rattled off 10 consecutive wins of 20 points or more to conclude the season, including blowout wins of No. 3 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl and No. 1 Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Seven players earned first or second-team All-America honors, including a school-record three players who collected consensus honors. The 2018 Tigers produced a team-record 18 All-ACC picks and became the first team to produce the ACC Player of the Year, ACC Offensive Player of the Year, ACC Defensive Player of the Year, ACC Offensive Rookie of the Year and ACC Coach of the Year in a season since Florida State in 1997. Accolades also accumulated for Swinney, who earned his second career ACC Coach-of-the-Year honor and brought home the Woody Hayes Award as national coach of the year. Less than a week after winning the national title, he also won the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, becoming the first three-time winner of the award. Including the 2018 Bryant and Hayes Awards, he has won national coach-of-the-year honors from at least one organization in five of the last nine years. The 2018 season was preceded by a 2017 campaign in which Clemson was on a mission to prove that it was built to last. Swinney guided the team to a 12-2 record, an ACC title and a College Football Playoff berth despite having only six scholarship seniors and losing players who accounted for 77 percent of the offense during the 2016 national championship season. While Clemson was ranked No. 5 in the preseason AP Poll, few expected the Tigers to be ranked No. 1 in both polls and the College Football Playoff ranking entering the bowl season. In fact, Clemson was not even the preseason choice to win the ACC Atlantic Division.  Despite a setback in the Sugar Bowl to the eventual national champion, Alabama, Clemson finished ranked No. 4 in both polls. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame following the season. Clemson's school-record six wins over top-25 teams in 2017, also a national best, included a school-record four on opponents' home fields and five away from home. The defense, including three defensive linemen, featured four players who were named All-American, helping Clemson rank in the top four in the nation in scoring defense (No. 2) and total defense (No. 4). Clemson led the ACC in the four major defensive categories (scoring, total, rushing, passing), a first in history. The 2016 Tigers lived up to their hype after compiling a 14-1 record and earning a spot in the College Football Playoff for the second-straight year. Along the way, Clemson knocked off five top-25 foes. Clemson defeated the top two teams in the national polls in consecutive games in the College Football Playoff at the end of the season. The Tigers blanked Ohio State, 31-0, in the Fiesta Bowl, the first shutout suffered by head coach Urban Meyer in his career and the first for Ohio State since 1993. The Tigers then earned a rematch with No. 1 Alabama, and for the first time in school history, took down the top-ranked team in a second epic battle with the storied Crimson Tide program. Quarterback Deshaun Watson's touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with one second left on the clock gave Clemson a dramatic 35-31 victory in Tampa, Fla. Swinney received the Bear Bryant Award as national coach-of-the-year for the second consecutive season. Swinney coached Watson to two record-setting seasons in 2015 and 2016. The two-time Heisman Trophy finalist became the first player in FBS history to total 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season in 2015, and he followed by setting an ACC record with 41 passing touchdowns in 2016. Watson won both  the Davey O'Brien Award and Manning Award in back-to-back seasons. Swinney guided Clemson to the No. 1 national ranking in every College Football Playoff poll in 2015 and led the Tigers to their first national championship game appearance under the new format after his team defeated Oklahoma, 37-17, in the 2015 Orange Bowl. The Tigers led Alabama in the fourth quarter of the championship contest, but came up just short (45-40) in an epic game in Glendale, Ariz. Following the team's 14-1 record and No. 2 final ranking, he was the recipient of 10 national and two ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors.  In 2015, a then-Tiger-record 17 players were named to one of three All-ACC teams, including all five starting offensive linemen for the first time in school history. In 2016, 15 players were honored, including a school-record three first-team All-ACC offensive line selections. The 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons were also noteworthy, with three top-15 final rankings.  With a 40-6 Russell Athletic Bowl victory over Oklahoma in 2014, Swinney became the first coach in history to win three bowl games in consecutive seasons over teams whose head coaches had previously won the national title. He upped that mark to five years in a row in 2016. Clemson capped off the 2013 season with a thrilling 40-35 victory over No. 6 Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. Clemson had an 11-2 record after finishing 7-1 in ACC regular-season games. It marked Clemson's first back-to-back 11-win seasons in school history. For the fourth time in his first five full seasons as head coach, Swinney was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual National Coach of the Year in 2013. The 2012 season (11-2) was a groundbreaking year for Swinney's Tigers when looking at the overall consistency of the program. The seven conference wins in the regular season were then a school record, while Clemson was co-champion of the ACC Atlantic Division. With Clemson's thrilling 25-24 win over No. 7 LSU in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl, the Tigers finished the season ranked No. 9 in the USA Today poll. It was Clemson's first top-10 finish in one of the two major polls since 1990. Clemson also reached the 11-win mark for the first time since its 1981 national championship season.  Swinney's 2011 squad, which ended the season ranked No. 22 in the nation, captured Clemson's first ACC title since 1991 when it beat No. 3 Virginia Tech, 38-10, in the ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, N.C. It gave Clemson its first 10-win season since 1990. For his efforts, Swinney was named Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year in 2011 to become the first Tiger head coach to win a national coach-of-the-year award since Ford in 1981. In 2010, Swinney became just the second Tiger coach to lead Clemson to a bowl game in his first two full years as head coach, joining his predecessor, Tommy Bowden. The 2010 schedule was one of the most challenging in school history, as nine bowl teams were on the regular-season slate and two of the four non-conference opponents were ranked in the top 25. In 2009, Swinney's first full season as head coach at Clemson, he led the Tigers to their first title of the ACC Atlantic Division. The Tigers came just six points short of winning their first ACC title in 18 years. Swinney was named ACC Coach of the Year by Sporting News and was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year. In October 2008, Swinney was named Clemson's interim head coach, replacing Bowden, who had been his position coach as a player at Alabama and was Clemson's head coach since 1999. He led the Tigers to a 4-2 record during the rest of the 2008 regular season, including a win over South Carolina in the regular-season finale to earn a Gator Bowl bid against Nebraska. On Dec. 1, 2008, his interim tag was removed and he was named the program's head coach. At the time, there had been 28 interim head coaches at the FBS level since 1970, and those coaches had combined for a 26-86-2 record. Only one of those 28 interim coaches posted a winning record, and that was Swinney. When he was hired as head coach, he became just the second interim coach to be elevated to the head coach position at the same school during that time period. Swinney hit the ground running in his first week as interim head coach, as he prepared for a 5-1 Georgia Tech team. He had to reorganize his staff and regroup his team and the fanbase in just five days. While the Tigers lost by four points, he accomplished many goals in that first week through his outstanding leadership. One of the most impressive demonstrations of unity came during the team's “Tiger Walk,” which has since become a staple of Clemson's game day routine for both the team and fans. Swinney has demonstrated his dedication to the community through Dabo's All In Team Foundation. Since 2009, the Swinney family and Dabo's All In Team Foundation have given more than $7.8 million back to communities and programs in the state. In its inaugural year, the foundation made the first contribution to the cancer fund established for former Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich, and many schools followed its lead during the remainder of the season. In 2021, the foundation distributed roughly $1.2 million in financial support to their core focus areas, with $800,000 of that being distributed to more than 200 deserving organizations and non-profits through the foundation's grant program. In 2019, the foundation awarded a record $1,082,000 in grant funding to more than 165 and raised $400,000 for breast cancer research and prevention during the organization's annual Ladies Clinic. The foundation's efforts went virtual in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as the organization's ALL IN Virtual Fundraising Event alone raised nearly $1 million for organizations and efforts in South Carolina. Swinney was named as the honorary coach for the 2019 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, an honor for which Watson, a former Good Works Team selection, returned to Clemson to surprise Swinney during a team meeting. In the spring of 2021, Swinney accepted the Uncommon Award from Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach Tony Dungy, who presents the honor annually to figures in football who “take the tough road, follow a higher calling and set a higher standard.” The 1993 Alabama graduate joined the Clemson staff prior to the 2003 season. In his first 19 years as an assistant or head coach, the Tigers finished in the top 25 of the polls 15 times and totaled 42 wins over top-25 teams. Swinney coached his wide receiver position to a level of consistency that had not been seen previously at Clemson. He had a wide receiver finish first or second in the ACC in catches in five of his six seasons as an assistant coach. In his first season, he had three of the top-10 receivers in the conference, a first in Tiger history. In his 19 seasons at Clemson, a Tiger wide receiver has earned All-ACC status in 17 of those campaigns, including a first- or second-team All-ACC selection (Derrick Hamilton, Airese Currie, Chansi Stuckey, Aaron Kelly, Jacoby Ford, Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins, Artavis Scott, Mike Williams, Tee Higgins, Amari Rodgers) in 16 of those 19 seasons. In 2021, three of his protégés (Williams, Higgins and Hunter Renfrow) recorded 1,000-yard seasons in the NFL, while another (Chansi Stuckey) served as wide receivers coach at Big 12 champion Baylor before accepting the wide receivers coach job at Notre Dame for 2022. The Alabama native has a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the nation. In 2006, he was listed as the No. 5 recruiter in the nation by Rivals. He signed 38 players in his five recruiting seasons as an assistant coach and was a major reason Clemson's 2008 recruiting class was rated No. 2 in the nation by ESPN when he signed 11 players. Clemson's 2020 class finished as a consensus Top 3 class, earning the top ranking from ESPN, a No. 2 rank by Rivals and a No. 3 ranking in the 247 Composite.  When Swinney accepted the interim head coaching position at Clemson on Oct. 13, 2008, he described his feelings as “bittersweet,” because he was taking over for Bowden, who had been his first position coach at Alabama in the 1989 season. He had also brought Swinney back to the coaching profession in 2003 and has had a profound effect on his life. Both had followed similar paths as players, as Bowden was a walk-on at West Virginia and Swinney was a walk-on at Alabama. Swinney received a commerce & business administration degree from Alabama in 1993 after lettering three times (1990-92). A walk-on who went on to earn a scholarship, Swinney was a wide receiver on Alabama's 1992 national championship team. He was also named Academic All-SEC along with being an SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll member in 1990 and 1992. Along with his appearance in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, his Alabama teams played in the 1990 Sugar Bowl, 1991 Fiesta Bowl and 1991 Blockbuster Bowl. Both Sugar Bowl appearances came after winning the SEC title game. After his playing career, he was a graduate assistant at Alabama from 1993-95. He received a master's degree in business administration from Alabama in 1995. He became a full-time assistant coach at Alabama in February 1996 under head coach Gene Stallings and coached a total of five seasons there on a full-time basis. Swinney was assigned to coach the Crimson Tide's wide receivers and tight ends in 1996, a season that saw Alabama win the SEC West Division title. The following year, he solely coached the tight ends. In 1998, he coached Alabama's wide receivers, a position he held for three years. At the end of 1999, Swinney coached the Crimson Tide in the 2000 Orange Bowl after winning the SEC Championship Game. During his time at Alabama, Swinney was a part of six teams with double-digit wins, five top-10 finishes, one national title (1992), three SEC championships (1989,92,99) and five SEC West Division titles (1992,93,94,96,99) as a player and coach. Swinney married the former Kathleen Bassett in 1994. They have three sons, Will, Drew and Clay. Will  played for Clemson from 2017-21, appearing in 69 games and holding for 558 career kicking points while also scoring two touchdowns of his own. Drew and Clay are both members of the 2022 Tiger football team.

As the fellas say “we get together when the news needs us” so Nate, Seth, and Steeg are back at it with another edition of the Bulluminati Podcast to discuss the GOAT Georgina Corrick, the MLB baseball draft, Shane's All Star start, Gerry Bohanon and the Davey O'Brien Award, conference realignment, and more. Unfortunately, Nate's internet doesn't corporate so it's the Seth and Steeg show for the majority of the podcast. 2:10: Shane's All*Star game START and the MLB Draft. #ArmFarm isn't just a hashtag. We also discuss Georgina Corrick winning the pitching triple crown. 12:29: USF Transfer QB Gerry Bohanon was named to the Davey O'Brien watch list. 30:02: ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips spoke and said some interesting things. 44:42: Vincent “Smoke” Davis announced he has to medically retire from football due to a neck injury. We'll miss him playing hard 100% of the time and his huge hits on Defense. 51:42: We have some helmet and jersey boxes being teased! Our equipment specialist opines. 1:05:09: We take your #AskTDS questions, look at the new USF Athletics website, and briefly discuss new offensive analyst Chad Morris (yes, that Chad Morris.)

The top headlines from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Friday, December 10, 2021, including the COVID-19 Omicron variant's arrival in Tarrant County, a new Univision docuseries focusing on the 2013 Southlake murder of cartel attorney Juan Guerrero Chapa and Alabama QB Bryce Young wins the Fort Worth-based Davey O'Brien Award.

The latest College Football Playoff Rankings are out, where do they have all the SEC teams, we'll discuss. Our buddy Matt Moscona, host of Locked On LSU caught up with Cole Cubelic from JOX-FM and the SEC Network talking a number of topics from around the SEC, we'll let you hear what Cole had to say. And we will go Around the Conference, as Vols' Theo Jackson talks some trash at Georgia, the Ol Ball Coach ain't happy with Florida, and some SEC QBs semifinalists for the Davey O'Brien Award.  Follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisGordy and @LockedOnSEC Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is Wednesday, my dudes! Richie and Conner sit down to discuss Jayden Daniels being nominated for the Davey O'Brien Award and then throw out a couple other players who deserve to be on other college football award watch lists. Then, we look at the Sun Devils struggles vs. the tight end and whether or not it will be a factor vs. Washington State this Saturday. Finally, the boys close it out by talking about three Sun Devils who deserve more playing time than they are getting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Locked On Cougars Podcast for Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Tuesday's podcast (released Monday afternoon) began with highlights from Kalani Sitake's weekly press briefing on Monday, including his assessment of No. 19/21 Arizona State's offense and defense as well as his insights as to why the tight end position has been so lightly utilized through the first two games of the season Attention then turned to the historical record as Jake wandered down memory lane to 1998 and the last time the Cougars and Sun Devils squared off in football in a game that featured then-BYU full back Kalani Fifita-Sitake leading the way for Ronnie Jenkins' starring role in an upset win for the Cougars Finally, the show wrapped up with a note on BYU sophomore quarterback Jaren Hall earning a Great 8 nod from the Davey O'Brien Award which adds him to their watchlist and gives him the chance to win the national award given to the nation's best quarterback. Kalani Sitake's thoughts on Hall's play were also highlighted Support Us By Supporting Our Locked On Podcast Network Sponsors!  Built Bar - Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to BuiltBar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline.AG - There is only one place that has you covered and one place we trust to place our wagers. That's BetOnline! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use the promo code "LOCKEDON" for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto - Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. SweatBlock - Get it today for 20% off at SweatBlock.com with promo code LockedOn, or at Amazon and CVS. StatHero - StatHero, the FIRST Ever Daily Fantasy Sportsbook that gives the PLAYER the ADVANTAGE. Go to StatHero.com/LockedOn for 300% back on your first play. Follow the Locked On Cougars podcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest with regards to the podcast and BYU sports news. Please remember to subscribe, rate and review the show. Also, please consider subscribing to the Yawk Talk Newsletter that Jake writes and is delivered directly to your email inbox. If you are interested in advertising with Locked On Cougars or the Locked On Podcast Network, please email us at LockedOnBYU@gmail.com or contact us here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Friday folks! We're only six weeks from football. It's so close! With the season drawing nearer, we're starting our team previews this week. We have a PACKED episode this week! Before starting the previews, we open up the a block with a recap of this weeks' MAC Media Days at Ford Field in Detroit. The media voted on how they see the divisions playing out this year, with Kent State being picked to win the East and Ball State repeating in the West. Zach and Steve discuss their thoughts on each division. Did the media get it right? Let us know! Also in the news, we've reached the stage of the pre-season where the annual awards watch lists are being released. The MAC placed SIX running backs on the annual Doak Walker Award watch list, which is a heck of an accomplishment for the conference. Elsewhere, Kent State QB Dustin Crum was named to the Davey O'Brien Award watch list for the nations best signal caller. In the B block, we dive into our first team preview of the year, taking a deep dive on the Northern Illinois Huskies. The boys recap NIU's performance last year, while looking at the make up of the roster. This is still an incredibly young team, though there are some good pieces left from last years squad. New QB Rocky Lombardi will have a number of weapons on offense, with Tyrice Richie and Trayvon Rudolph on the outside and Harrison Waylee in the backfield. The defense also returns some nice pieces, especially in the secondary. Huskie fans, how do you feel about NIU's chances this year? What type of season will constitute enough “progress” for you? Let us know! To close out the show, the boys take a look at Bowling Green. Falcon fans...we're sorry. It has been a sharp decline for the Falcons since the 2015 MAC Championship season, and things don't seem to be getting any better. Coach Scott Loeffler still has an incredibly young team after losing a number of players to the transfer portal this past offseason. Zach and Steve discuss some of the newcomers on offense (two P5 transfers at the skill positions) and what type of season to expect from QB Matt McDonald. On defense, the Falcons switch from a 4-3 to a 3-4 scheme with the hope of improving last year historically bad defense. They say that rock bottom is a good place to push off from, and it seems as if the Falcons are embodying that ethos right now. Signs of improvement this year are necessary, and would certainly be welcomed by the Falcons fan base. As always, thanks for stopping by this week folks. Have a great weekend, and we'll see you back here next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Colt McCoy is entering his 12th year in the NFL as a quarterback. He's currently with the Arizona Cardinals where he will be the backup to Kyler Murray. He was originally selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.  In college, Colt was a decorated quarterback at the University of Texas where he led the Longhorns to the 2010 National Championship game and won dozens of awards including the Maxwell Award, the Davey O'Brien Award, the Manning Award and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. His No. 12 was retired by Texas in 2012.  Today on the podcast, we talk to Colt about his journey football, signing with the Cardinals, how his faith in Jesus directs him and how his definition of leadership has involved in his 12-year NFL career.  ---  If you enjoyed this conversation with Colt, we know you'll love these podcasts as well: - Sam and Emmanuel Acho - Greg Davis - Former Texas Longhorns Offensive Coordinator Receive our 10-day Sports Spectrum Devotional written by professional athletes for FREE when you sign up for our Sports Spectrum Weekly Email Newsletter. Sign up here. 

Today on The Dr. Christopher Hall Show, Dr Hall and Neil Haley will interview Charlie Ward about his life and his podcast. is an American retired professional basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner and Davey O'Brien Award winner and a National Basketball Association (NBA) player. He won the College Football National Championship with the Florida State Seminoles in 1993. Despite his NCAA football success, Ward is one of the very few players who won a Heisman Trophy but was not drafted in the NFL draft. Ward played for nine years with the New York Knicks and started in the 1999 NBA Finals. He later had short spells with the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets, before retiring in 2005. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Today on The Dr. Christopher Hall Show, Dr Hall and Neil Haley will interview Charlie Ward about his life and his podcast. is an American retired professional basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner and Davey O'Brien Award winner and a National Basketball Association (NBA) player. He won the College Football National Championship with the Florida State Seminoles in 1993. Despite his NCAA football success, Ward is one of the very few players who won a Heisman Trophy but was not drafted in the NFL draft. Ward played for nine years with the New York Knicks and started in the 1999 NBA Finals. He later had short spells with the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets, before retiring in 2005. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

The Locked on Longhorns podcast kicks off with practice notes from 247Sports. We discussed the quarterback competition behind Sam Ehlinger. Casey Thompson is the number two quarterback for the upcoming season but could one of the young guns take the job from him in 2020 season? Does Thompson have an opportunity for the starting role in 2021? Roschon Johnson was taking first team snaps in the absence of Keaontay Ingram. Is there a chance Johnson might go back to quarterback in 2021? Who will be the starting 'Z' receiver role in 2020? The top two candidates are Joshua Moore and Tarik Black. Moore was taking the first team reps. Sam Ehlinger was named to the Davey O'Brien Award watchlist. With Ehlinger being the FBS active leader in completions, passing yards, touchdowns and total offense since 2018, it is no surprise. Would Ehlinger be the all-time leading passer in school history if he would have started every game since his freshman season? 2022 quarterback Quinn Ewers holds an offer from the University of Texas. The number one quarterback was recently rated as the number one prospect in the 2022 class overall. Can the Longhorns bring him to Austin? Ewers has ties to the Longhorns which could bode well for the team. One of the changes to the Texas Longhorns, one of the big changes will be the new name for the football field. Most recently named Joe Jamail field, it will now be known as Campbell-Williams Field. It will be named after the only two Longhorns to ever win the Heisman Memorial Trophy, Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams. Plus Gunnar Helm set to visit Austin next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Thanksgiving from Drew, Aaron, and #PuntandPass! (3:25) Drew starts off by announcing the finalists for the 2018 Ray Guy Award! (4:40) Aaron follows up by announcing the finalists for the 2018 Davey O'Brien Award! (6:08) The guys get into a healthy discussion about the #CFBPlayoff rankings and how #UCF can make their way into the Top-4. (13:20) Its Rivalry Week! Clean, Ol' Fashioned Hate #GTvsUGA (17:50) The Egg Bowl! #MSSTvsMISS (19:57) #OUvsWVU (24:05) The Apple Cup! #WASHvsWSU (26:25) The Sunshine Showdown! #UFvsFSU (27:43) The Palmetto Bowl! #SCARvsCLEM (29:40) The Iron Bowl! #AUBvsBAMA (30:55) The Game! #MICHvsOSU (36:45) #LSUvsTAMU - Thanks for listening and please rate/review/subscribe! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron recap what happened during Week 11 on this episode of #PuntandPass. (2:07) Former #OhioState WR coach Zach Smith is back at it again. Wow! (7:49) #Bama gets their second straight shutout of a Top-25 #SEC team. (10:51) #Clemson stays hot in chilly Boston against BC. (15:38) #NotreDame capitalizes against a terrible #FSU team. (16:51) #Michigan continues to roll towards their matchup against #OSU. (18:45) Drew announces the Ray Guy Award's "Ray's 8" top 8 punters from Week 11! (21:53) Aaron announces the Davey O'Brien Award's "Great 8" top 8 QB's from Week 11! (23:43) #UGA beats #Auburn and could possibly find their way into the Top-4 this week. (26:51) #Kentucky loses to #Tennessee, as Drew predicted weeks ago! (28:58) The guys celebrate being 100% correct on #OKSTvsOU. Thanks for listening and remember to rate/review/subscribe!! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron welcome in special guest Dan Orlovsky from ESPN on this week's episode of #PuntandPass! (2:00) Breaking news in South Bend as Notre Dame QB Ian Book won't be playing this weekend. Will it matter? (7:00) Does Notre Dame deserve a Top-3 ranking? (9:52) The Davey O'Brien Award announced their semifinalists for this year's honor. The guys break down the candidates. (13:50) Drew announces the Ray Guy Award Punter of the Week from Week 10! (15:25) ESPN's Dan Orlovsky joins the pod. (34:14) #FSUvsND (35:51) #UKvsTENN (38:23) #OSUvsMSU (40:05) #MSUvsBAMA (42:02) #OKSTvsOU (44:50) #CLEMvsBC (47:45) #AUBvsUGA - Thanks for listening and please rate/review/subscribe!! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron recap what went down during "Statement Saturday" on this episode of #PuntandPass. (1:58) #Bama destroys #LSU in Baton Rouge. Can anyone touch the Tide? (9:34) Who made a bigger statement on Saturday? #UGA defeating #Kentucky on the road? Or #Michigan stomping #PennState in Ann Arbor? (15:34) #NotreDame remains unbeaten with a win over #Northwestern. Will they trip up this season? (18:17) Drew announces "Ray's 8" - the top 8 Punters of the Week from Week 10. (20:35) Aaron and Drew discuss which QBs may be on the semifinalist list for the Davey O'Brien Award later this week! (22:33) The guys talk about the rest of the noteworthy outcomes from the weekend. Thanks for listening and please rate, review, subscribe!! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron recap Week 9 action and get you caught up from another jam-packed weekend of college football! (6:45) #UFvsUGA Georgia gets a big Top-10 win over a rival in Jacksonville. (14:20) #CLEMvsFSU Clemson throttles the Noles as their ACC dominance continues. (16:15) #NDvsNAVY The Irish are undefeated, is Ian Book Heisman material? (18:56) Aaron announces the Davey O'Brien Award "Great 8" from Week 9! (21:05) Drew announces the Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" from Week 9! (23:05) #UKvsMIZZOU The Cats escape CoMo with a win. Should pass interference have been called to end the game? Thanks for listening to #PuntandPass - tune in on Thursday! Rate, review, subscribe!

Drew and Aaron recap a big weekend in college football and roundup all of the action for you! (1:30) #Florida upsets #LSU in The Swamp. Are the #Gators for real, or were the #Tigers overrated? (8:37) #Texas beats #Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout with a walk-off FG by Dicker the Kicker! (15:00) There is only one team in America that could lose their conference championship and still get into the CFP over undefeated Notre Dame. (15:50) #Kentucky loses their first game of the season to #TexasA&M. (19:47) Drew announces "Ray's 8" - the Ray Guy Award top 8 Punters from Week 6! (22:00) Aaron announces the "Great 8" - the Davey O'Brien Award top 8 QB's from Week 6! (24:15) #MississippiState gets back on track with a big win at home over #Auburn. (25:50) Is #NotreDame a legit CFP contender? (27:51) #UGA has to answer some questions ahead of a big road test at #LSU coming up in Week 7. Thanks for listening to #PuntandPass and please rate, review, subscribe!

Drew and Aaron dive into some hot topics around college football and recap all of the action from Week 5 #PuntandPass! (1:40) Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence goes down as the Kelly Bryant transfer decision looms large. (8:36) Texas A&M HC Jimbo Fisher grabs a player's facemask and social media goes crazy. (14:36) Penn State HC James Franklin wasn't happy with a fan post-game. (19:30) Drew announces the Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" Punters of the Week! (20:35) Aaron announces the Davey O'Brien Award "Great 8" QB's of the Week! (24:45) #OSUvsPSU. (28:00) #STANvsND. (30:37) #TENNvsUGA. (36:15) #UFvsMSU. (38:50) #USCvsUK. Thanks for listening and please remember to rate, review, subscribe! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron get you caught up on all of the happenings from Week 4 in College Football! (1:26) Emergency Tiger Woods Tour Championship discussion! (5:06) #TAMUvsBAMA. The Tide continues to roll. (10:24) #STANvsORE. The Cardinal storm back for a wild comeback win on the road. (13:48) Aaron announces the Davey O'Brien Award "Great 8" QB's of the Week! (17:35) Drew announces the Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" Punters of the Week! (18:17) #UGAvsMIZ. The Dawgs get an ugly road win by double digits. (24:20) #MSUvsUK. Benny Snell gets Kentucky into the Top 25. (27:05) #UFvsTENN. Yikes! (30:26) #USCvsVANDY. Thanks for listening to #PuntandPass and please rate, review, subscribe!

Drew and Aaron break down what went down during Week 3! (1:36) #LSUvsAUB. The Bayou Bengals take down War Eagle in another thriller added to this fierce rivalry! (9:16) #OSUvsTCU. This top-15 matchup was a fight for 3 quarters before the Buckeyes pulled away. Who can stop Ohio State? (13:34) Davey O'Brien Award "Great 8" QB's! (16:40) Ray Guy Award "Ray's 8" Punters! (17:22) #BAMAvsMISS. Is Jalen Hurts going to be redshirted? (23:03) #MTSUvsUGA. Jake Fromm continues to impress. (25:40) Recap of a few other scores across college football. Thanks for listening and rate, review, subscribe!! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron recap the second week of the college football season on #PuntandPass! (3:30) #UGAvsSC. The #Dawgs dominate in Columbia. (12:08) #CLEMvsTAMU. A thriller in College Station goes down to the wire. (16:16) Drew announces "Ray's 8" - the Ray Guy Award's top 8 punters from Week 2. (16:57) Aaron announces the "Great 8" - the Davey O'Brien Award's top 8 QBs from Week 2. (18:27) #UKvsUF. Could #Kentucky snap a 31-game losing streak to Florida? (21:53) Butler and Murray talk about some other top storylines around college football. Thanks for listening - rate/review/subscribe! #PuntandPass

Drew and Aaron put a bow on the first week of action for the 2018 college football season! (1:54) #WASHvsAUB. The Tigers get a huge week 1 victory over a top-10 opponent. (6:30) #MICHvsND. Notre Dame takes care of business. Is Jim Harbaugh in trouble? (9:50) #MIAvsLSU. Is Miami overrated or is LSU legit? (14:50) Drew announces "Ray's 8" - the top 8 punters of the week for the Ray Guy Award. (15:52) Aaron announces the Davey O'Brien Award "Great 8" - honoring the top 8 QB's of week 1! (18:00) #TENNvsWVU. West Virginia smokes Tennessee. Not a great debut for Jeremy Pruitt. (21:33) #ULvsBAMA. Tua takes the reigns in Tuscaloosa. (27:20) #VTvsFSU. Willie Taggart has a rough debut for the 'Noles. (30:30) #APvsUGA. The Dawgs take care of business ahead of a big SEC game in week 2. Thanks for listening, rate/review/subscribe! #PuntandPass

Bill Brady from the Davey O'Brien Award and Foundation joins us in this episode.