College Football 2011: Rimington Trophy Watch List Unveiled

The second college football player award watch list for the 2011 season has been released. The committee in charge of the Rimington Trophy, awarded to the top center n college football, released their initial watch list Thursday, and it includes 14 players from last season's watch list.

A total of 42 players have made the list, including four sophomores. South Carolina's T.J. Johnson, Travis Swanson of Arkansas, Colorado State's Weston Richburg, Utah State's Tyler Larsen, and New Mexico's Dillon Farrell are the youngest players on the watch list, all being listed as sophomores. Here is the full watch list:

• Chris Anzevino, Kent State
• Eloy Atkinson, UTEP
• Mario Benavides, Louisville
• Philip Blake, Baylor
• Ben Bojicic, Bowling Green
• Colin Boss, Middle Tennessee State
• Mike Brewster, Ohio State
• Terence Brown, BYU
• Ben Burkett, Northwestern
• Thomas Byrd, Boise State
• Mike Caputo, Nebraska
• Nick Carlson, Wyoming
• Tom Castilaw, Arkansas State
• Braxton Cave, Notre Dame
• Trent Dupy, Tulsa
• Dillon Farrell, New Mexico
• James Ferentz, Iowa
• Dalton Freeman, Clemson
• Kevin Galeher, Western Michigan
• Grant Garner, Oklahoma State
• Garth Gerhart, Arizona State
• Jeremiah Hatch, Kansas
• A.J. Hawkins, Ole Miss
• Cam Holland, North Carolina
• Tyler Horn, Miami (Fla.)
• Grant Johnson, Oregon State
• T.J. Johnson, South Carolina
• Ben Jones, Georgia
• Peter Konz, Wisconsin
• Tyler Larsen, Utah State
• P.J. Lonergan, LSU
• Joe Madsen, West Virginia
• Kai Maiava, UCLA
• Blaine McJunkin, SMU
• David Molk, Michigan
• Brian Moore, Duke
• Weston Richburg, Colorado State
• Darion Smith, UAB
• Matt Smith, Kentucky
• Travis Swanson, Arkansas
• William Vlachos, Alabama
• Scott Wedige, Northern Illinois

TCU's Jake Kirkpatrick was awarded the Rimington Trophy in 2010. Kirkpatrick became the first player from a non-AQ conference to win the award. The committee deciding on the winner takes in to account the AFCA, Walter Camp Foundation, The Sporting News, and the Football Writers Association of America All-American teams as a foundation for evaluation.The center with the most first-team votes wins the trophy. A majority vote from the committee is used to break a tie if possible.

The Rimington Trophy has been awarded since 2000. Here is a list of the previous winners.

• 2000 - Domonic Raiola, Nebraska
• 2001 - LeCharles Bentley, Ohio State
• 2002 - Brett Romberg, Miami
• 2003 - Jake Grove, Virginia Tech
• 2004 (tie) - David Baas, Michigan; Ben Wilkerson, LSU
• 2005 - Greg Eslinger - Minnesota
• 2006 - Dan Mozes, West Virginia
• 2007 - Jonathan Luigs, Arkansas
• 2008 - A.Q. Shipley, Penn State
• 2009 - Maurkice Pouncey, Florida
• 2010 - Jake Kirkpatrick, TCU