College Football Award Watch Lists 2012: Woooooo, It's Kicker Day

Is there such a thing as a bad day during which we get to discuss Brad Wing? There is not! The LSU legsman has been named on a college football award watch list, which is the same thing as saying he has been named as a college football player. Nevertheless, the quest to claim what's rightfully his begins right here.

First, the watch list for the Lou Groza Award, which aims to award the best kicker:

• Drew Alleman, LSU
• Brett Baer, Louisiana
• Drew Basil, Ohio State
• Tyler Bitancurt, West Virginia
• Maikon Bonani, USF
• Chris Boswell, Rice
• Chandler Catanzaro, Clemson
• Dan Conroy, Michigan State
• Mitch Ewald, Indiana
• Anthony Fera, Penn State
• Andrew Furney, Washington State
• Brendan Gibbons, Michigan
• Jack Griffin, FIU
• Andre Heidari, USC
• Parker Herrington, Air Force
• Zach Hocker, Arkansas
• Dustin Hopkins, Florida State
• Michael Hunnicutt, Oklahoma
• Ty Long, UAB
• Brett Maher, Nebraska
• Craig McIntosh, Kentucky
• Mike Meyer, Iowa
• Jimmy Newman, Wake Forest
• Cody Parkey, Auburn
• Quinn Sharp, Oklahoma State
• Jeremy Shelley, Alabama
• Caleb Sturgis, Florida
• Matt Weller, Ohio
• Jake Wieclaw, Miami
• Jordan Williamson, Stanford

And the Ray Guy, bequeathed to the nation's finest punter, ideally:

• Will Atterberry, North Texas
• Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech
• Tyler Bennett, Utah State
• Dalton Botts, Miami
• Dylan Breeding, Arkansas
• Ian Campbell, UTEP
• Tyler Campbell, Ole Miss
• Steven Clark, Auburn
• Bobby Cowan, Idaho
• Ron Doherty, Kansas
• Richard Kent, Vanderbilt
• Pete Kontodiakos, Colorado State
• Richie Leone, Houston
• Jeff Locke, UCLA
• Brett Maher, Nebraska
• Pat O'Donnell, Cincinnati
• Darragh O'Neill, Colorado
• Jackson Rice, Oregon
• Brian Schmiedebusch, Bowling Green
• Sean Sellwood, Utah
• Quinn Sharp, Oklahoma State
• Riley Stephenson, BYU
• Kirby Van Der Kamp, Iowa State
• Harrison Waid, San Jose State
• Brad Wing, LSU

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