(UI Athletics news release)
IOWA CITY, Iowa University of Iowa freshman punter Tory Taylor has been named the Big Ten’s Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year. The announcement was made Thursday by the league office.
Taylor is the first Hawkeye and first freshman to be named Punter of the Year in the Big Ten in the award’s 10-year history.
Taylor was also a first-team All-Big Ten selection by league coaches and media. In addition to Taylor’s honor, three more Hawkeyes – redshirt junior Charlie Jones, and seniors Keith Duncan and Ihmir-Smith Marsette – earned All-Big Ten honors.
Jones was named second-team All-Big Ten by league coaches and third-team All-Big Ten by the media. Duncan was a third-team All-Big Ten selection (coaches & media) and Smith-Marsette was an All-Big Ten honorable mention (coaches & media).
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The game between No. 12 Georgia and Missouri that will take place Saturday at Faurot Field probably won t look a whole lot like the one the Bulldogs and Tigers would have played if they met a few weeks ago.
Georgia was still trying to settle on a quarterback, listing four possibilities at the position, before the matchup set for Nov. 14 was postponed because of COVID-19 issues within the Tigers program. Missouri was still trying to get on track after a lopsided loss at Florida left coach Eli Drinkwitz s team 2-3 in his first season.
Nearly a month later, J.T. Daniels is entrenched under center for the Bulldogs, while the Tigers have ripped off three straight wins, capped by a dramatic comeback victory over Arkansas last weekend.
Of course, in this most unusual of years, there s a chance they could return in 2021.
The NCAA has granted athletes an extra year of eligibility because of the coronavirus pandemic, adding another level of uncertainty to a season filled with all sorts of twists and turns.
“I m really just focusing on finishing out the season strong, said Yellow Jackets defensive lineman Djimon Brooks, a fifth-year senior. ”I ll get a chance to sit down and talk with the coaches and my parents after the season. I haven t really even gotten that far with it.”
Georgia Tech (3-6, 3-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) will host Pittsburgh (5-5, 4-5) on Thursday night in a game that was supposed to be held Nov. 14, only to be postponed because of the pandemic.