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The Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the most outstanding defensive player in men's and women's college basketball. [1] It has been awarded by the Atlanta Tipoff Club since 2018 and is named in honor of James Naismith , the inventor of the sport.
2018 Official NFL Record and Fact Book (PDF). National Football League. pp. 524–525. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2021 "AP Defensive Player of the Year Winners". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on July 13, 2018 "NFL Defensive Player of the Year".
The Mid-American Conference football awards are given annually by the Mid-American Conference (MAC) at the conclusion of each college football season. The conference gives out a total of five awards, the Offensive, Defensive, and Freshman Players of the Year, the Coach of the Year, and the Vern Smith Leadership Award, which is given to the league's MVP in that season.
Several players have won the award twice; Herschel Walker was a three-time recipient (1980–1982). 1933 : Beattie Feathers , HB, Tennessee 1934 : Dixie Howell , TB, Alabama
Jorge Gutiérrez of California (2012) and Evan Mobley of USC (2021) are the only players to also win the Pac-12 Player of the Year in the same season. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Gary Payton won both awards in separate seasons with Oregon State , capturing the defensive honor as a freshman in 1987 and the conference player of the year as a senior in 1990.
A quarterback has won the Heisman Trophy the most out of any position since the trophy first was awarded in 1935. A total of 36 quarterbacks have won the Heisman, most recently Jayden Daniels in 2023.
Six schools from CUSA joined the American Athletic Conference for the 2023 season—Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB, and UTSA. [10] This followed the departure of Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF from The American for the Big 12 Conference in 2023. In addition, BYU, previously an FBS independent, joined the Big 12. [11]
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