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2022 WALTER CAMP FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: DL Tuli Tuipulotu, USC,...Tuipulotu's 12.5 sacks are the most in a single season at USC since Kenechi Udeze set the Trojans' record with 16.5 in 2003. Tuipulotu has recorded 44 tackles, 29 of them solo. He has tallied three pass breakups at the line, two quarterback hurries - one of which turned into an intentional grounding penalty for a safety against Colorado - and has collected forced two fumbles. - USC Football

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DE *Tuli Tuipulotu, Southern California
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12/09/22 - Andrew Vorhees, rSr/2023, Southern California, 6-6, 310 (DS#9 OG) + More +

2022 WALTER CAMP SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: OL Andrew Vorhees, USC,...Vorhees' pass blocking was a crucial piece of QB Caleb Williams' outstanding performance this season to allow him to go 296-for-448 (.661) for 4,075 yards and 37 TDs. His run blocking allowed 3 different Trojans to score rushing touchdowns. His run blocking allowed 5 different Trojans to score a total of 29 rushing TDs this season. Per PFF, Vorhees is the No. 4 graded guard in the nation with over 700 snaps. - USC Football

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OG Andrew Vorhees, Southern California
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12/08/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

2022 MAXWELL AWARD WINNER: Caleb Williams, USC,...Williams has been instrumental in successfully turning around a program that went 4-8 in the 2021 season to a 11-2 team in 2022. The 7-victory increase from last season matches the biggest one-season turnaround in USC history. The other 7-game improvement was when the 1962 National Champion Trojans won 11 games after winning only 4 in the 1961 season. Through 13 games, Williams has dazzled the nation with his elusive moves, his powerful arm and his thrilling runs. He has 47 TDs and 4 INTs. He is 296-for-448 (.661) for 4,075 yards. Williams has also rushed for 372 yards on 109 carries with 10 TDs. He has accounted for 47 total touchdowns (both passing and running) in 13 games. He broke the previous school record of 41 by Matt Barkley (2011) and Cody Kessler (2014).

Williams now has 4,447 total offensive yards in 2022, which ranks first on USC's single-season list (Sam Darnold previously held the record with 4,225 total yards in 2017). His 372 rushing yards this season is also the most by a USC QB in the last 70 years since complete records were available. The previous record was 342 by Jim Sears in 1952. Williams leads USC with 10 rushing TDs on the season. Williams is No. 1 in the nation in in passing TDs (37). He is also No. 1 in the nation in points responsible for per game (21.7) and points responsible for (282). Williams is No. 3 in the nation in passing yards (4,075). He is No. 6 in the nation in passing efficiency (167.9), passing yards per game (313.5) and total offense (342.1). Williams is No. 7 in the nation in yards per pass attempt (9.10). - USC Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/08/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

2022 DAVEY O'BRIEN AWARD FINALIST (OUTSTANDING QUARTERBACK): Through 13 games, Williams has dazzled the nation with his elusive moves, his powerful arm and his thrilling runs. He has 47 TDs and 4 INTs. He is 296-for-448 (.661) for 4,075 yards. Williams has also rushed for 372 yards on 109 carries with 10 TDs. He has accounted for 47 total touchdowns (both passing and running) in 13 games. He broke the previous school record of 41 by Matt Barkley (2011) and Cody Kessler (2014). - USC Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/08/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

2022 MAXWELL AWARD FINALIST (PLAYER OF THE YEAR): QB Caleb Williams, Southern California,...Leading Heisman candidate QB Caleb Williams continues to impress the nation with his dazzling performances. Through 12 games, Williams has 44 total TDs and 3 INTs. He is 268-for-407 (.658) for 3,712 yards. He has also rushed for 351 yards on 97 carries with 10 TDs. - USC Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/08/22 - *Tuli Tuipulotu, Jr/2023, Southern California, 6-3, 266 (DS#9 DE) + More +

2022 CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD FINALIST (DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR): Tuipulotu is the nation's third-leading sack man with 12.5 on the season (0.96 per game). He is also the Pac-12 leader and is sixth nationally with 1.6 tackles for loss per game (21.0 total). Tuipulotu's 12.5 sacks are the most in a single season at USC since Kenechi Udeze set the Trojans' record with 16.5 in 2003. Tuipulotu has recorded 44 tackles, 29 of them solo. He has tallied three pass breakups at the line, two quarterback hurries - one of which turned into an intentional grounding penalty for a safety against Colorado - and has collected forced two fumbles. - USC Football

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DE *Tuli Tuipulotu, Southern California
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12/08/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams is The Associated Press college football player of the year, becoming the school's first winner of the award since 2005 with his stellar debut season for the Trojans. Williams received 32 of the 46 first-place votes and 117 total points from AP Top 25 poll voters to win the award presented by Regions Bank. The Heisman Trophy favorite finished well ahead of TCU quarterback Max Duggan, who came in second with six first-place votes and 64 points. Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud was third, with Tennessee's Hendon Hooker in fourth and Georgia's Stetson Bennett fifth. Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr., the first repeat SEC Defensive Player of the Year, was the only non-quarterback in this year's top eight vote-getters, finishing sixth after coming in fourth last season. - AP College Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/08/22 - Brett Neilon, rSr/2023, Southern California, 6-2, 286 (DS#24 C) + More +

2022 RIMINGTON TROPHY FINALIST: Brett Neilon, USC,...Neilon has been USC's starting center for the past four seasons. He led an offensive line that is one of the best in the nation. He was crucial to the success of leading Heisman Trophy candidate, quarterback Caleb Williams. In USC's electric offense, Neilon helped the Trojans average 325.7 passing yards per game, while averaging 172.4 yards on the ground. USC is ranked No. 3 in the nation in scoring offense, averaging 41.1 points per game. - USC Football

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C Brett Neilon, Southern California
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12/07/22 - Nick Figueroa, rSr/2023, Southern California, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 DE) + More +

USC's Nick Figueroa was named the 2022 Pac-12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the conference announced today. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports sponsored by the Pac-12, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their respective sports disciplines. Figueroa is the first Trojan to win the Pac-12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, which was established during the 2007-08 academic year. He earned his bachelor's degree in real estate development in the spring of 2021 with a cumulative GPA of 3.76, and is currently working on a master's degree in finance.

In 2021 the defensive lineman was a Senior CLASS Award semifinalist, and won USC's Trojan Howard Jones/Football Alumni Club Academic Award and Co-Lifters Award. He also was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team and CoSIDA Academic All-District Team. He is a two-time David X Marks Scholar Athlete, which is bestowed upon student-athletes who have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA. The redshirt senior has nine sacks, 16.5 tackles for loss and 64 total tackles during his Trojan career. Figueroa earned All-Pac-12 honorable mention and Phil Steele All-Pac-12 third team honors in 2020 after posting 20 tackles and a team-high seven tackles for loss in six games. This year Figueroa was selected as a Campbell Trophy semifinalist and a Lott IMPACT Trophy quarterfinalist after recording four-and-a-half sacks and 19 tackles. - Pac-12 Football

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DE Nick Figueroa, Southern California
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12/06/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

2022 PAC-12 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR, PRESENTED BY NEXTIVA: Caleb Williams, QB, So., USC,...Williams, a 2022 Heisman Trophy finalist, give the Trojans back-to-back Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year winners (WR Drake London last year), the first time a school has repeated since Stanford won three straight from 2009-11 (Toby Gerhart, Andrew Luck x 2). The last time USC won this award in consecutive seasons was from 2003-2005 when Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush each won the award once individually while sharing in 2004...First USC Heisman finalist since Bush and Leinart were both finalists in 2005...Instrumental part of turning around program that went 4-8 in the 2021 season to an 11-2 team in 2022. The 7-win increase matches the biggest turnaround in USC history.

The only other time the Trojans increased their win total by 7 games was the 1962 National Championship season, following a 4-win season in 1961...Prior to any bowl games, Williams ranks among the national leaders in almost all passing categories. Leads the nation with 37 passing TD, which is 2 short of the school's single-season record held by Cody Kessler (2014) and Matt Barkley (2011), and also leads with a USC record 47 total TD (37 pass, 10 rush)...Third in the country with 4,447 total yards, breaking the USC single-season record set by Sam Darnold in 2017 (4,425)..Fourth in FBS with 4,075 pass yards to become just the 2nd Trojan to reach 4,000 yards in a season (Darnold with 4,143 in 2017). ..Fifth in the country in lowest rate of interceptions (0.9%) with just 4 picks in 448 pass attempts which would set the school record (currently Kessler, 1.1% in 2014)...372 rushing yards is the most by a USC QB in the last 70 years since complete records were available, breaking the previous record of 342 by Jim Sears in 1952. - Pac-12 Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/06/22 - *Tuli Tuipulotu, Jr/2023, Southern California, 6-3, 266 (DS#9 DE) + More +

2022 PAC-12 PAT TILLMAN DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Tuli Tuipulotu, DL, Jr., USC,...Tuipulotu becomes the second Trojan in the last three years to win this award (Talanoa Hufanga in 2020) and the ninth all-time since the Defensive Player of the Year became its own award in 1983...Back-to-back seasons as first team All-Pac-12...Leads the nation with 12.5 sacks this season, becoming just the third Trojan in the last 30 seasons to have at least 12 sacks in a season...Second in FBS with 21.0 TFL this season, the most by a Trojan since Kenechi Udeze had 26 in 2003...Finalist for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Rotary Lombardi Award, Lott IMPACT Trophy and Chuck Bednarik Award...Won Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week two times this season and the Pac-12 Defensive Lineman of the Week four times to become the first player to ever win it four times in one season since the award was created in 2019. - Pac-12 Football

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DE *Tuli Tuipulotu, Southern California
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12/05/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

2022 HEISMAN TROPHY FINALIST: QB Caleb Williams, Southern California,...Williams, a sophomore, led the Trojans to the Pac-12 championship game, one year after transferring from Oklahoma and heading west along with head coach Lincoln Riley to revive a stagnant program. He has completed 66.1% of his passes for 4,075 yards, while throwing for 37 touchdowns and only four interceptions. He is seeking to be Riley's third Heisman Trophy winner and USC's first Heisman winner since Reggie Bush in 2005, an award that was later vacated. - Frank Cooney's NFL Draft Scout

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/04/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

USC quarterback Caleb Williams is hopeful he can lead the Trojans' offense against No. 16 Tulane in the Cotton Bowl, while coach Lincoln Riley offered a more cautious forecast Sunday. Williams limped his way through the Pac-12 title game after he "popped" his hamstring on a first-quarter run. Riley noted after the game that Williams was "not even close to 50%" during the second half and that he considered going to backup Miller Moss. But the Heisman Trophy favorite refused to check out, instead fighting his way through the rest of the Utah loss while largely confined to the pocket, unable to scramble as usual.

Williams, who still had a serious limp Sunday, was confident that he would play in the bowl game when asked by The Times after an event for his foundation, Caleb Cares. "It would take a lot to keep me out," Williams said. Riley said Williams likely would not be able to play if USC had another game in the next two weeks, referring to it as a "significant hamstring injury." "Hamstrings are different for everybody, but the nature of his is pretty severe," Riley said. "... We will see how it progresses. We obviously hope to have him. He's a warrior." - LA Times

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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12/02/22 - Jack Sullivan, rSr/2024, Southern California, 6-5, 275 (DS#999 DE) + More +

2022 ALL-BIG TEN FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): Jack Sullivan,...Sullivan leads the Boilermakers with 5.5 sacks this season, ranking eighth in the conference. Stepping up in conference games, 4.5 sacks have come in against league opponents, the sixth-most in the B1G. Sullivan had a crucial strip sack in the win over Northwestern, forcing a turnover late in the fourth quarter to preserve the victory. His 33 tackles pace the Purdue defensive line. - Purdue Football

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DE Jack Sullivan, Southern California
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12/01/22 - Caleb Williams, Jr/2024, Southern California, 6-1, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

The College Football Playoff announced Thursday it will expand to a 12-team event starting in 2024, completing an 18-month process that was fraught with delays and disagreements. The announcement comes a day after the Rose Bowl agreed to amend its contract for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which was the last hurdle CFP officials needed cleared to triple the size of what is now a four-team format. We appreciate the leaders of the six bowl games and the two future national championship game host cities for their cooperation," CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said in a statement. "Everyone realized that this change is in the best interest of college football and pulled together to make it happen." The first round of the new playoff in 2024 will take place the week ending Saturday, Dec. 21. Exact dates are still to be determined.

The championship game for the 2024 season will be played Jan. 20, 2025, in Atlanta. The championship game for the 2025 season will be played Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Both are more than a week later than the current title game timing. Expansion is expected to produce about $450 million in additional gross revenue for the conferences and schools that participate. The plan to expand the playoff was unveiled in June 2021, but the conference commissioners who manage the CFP could not come to the unanimous consensus needed to push the proposal forward. Expansion for the 2024 season was pronounced dead back in February. University presidents and chancellors who oversee the CFP stepped in and revived the process over the summer. They approved the original plan for use by 2026, and threw it back to the commissioners, directing them to try to expand by 2024, if possible. The College Football Playoff’s 12-year contract with ESPN runs through the 2025-26 season. - AP College Football

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QB Caleb Williams, Southern California
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