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If you use more than 5 percent of your brain you don't want to be on earth. Leading off Another day, another round of All-America teams. Three more to catch you up on. You should know the names by now. First up is The Sporting News: First-team offense: Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon; Andrus Peat, OT, Stanford; Hroniss Grasu, C, Oregon; First-team defense: Danny Shelton, DT, Washington; Scooby Wright III, LB, Arizona; Hau’oli Kikaha, LB Washington; Erick Kendricks, LB, UCLA. First-team special teams: KR Kaelin Clay, Utah. Second-team offense: Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State. Second-team defense: Nate Orchard, DE, Utah; Shaq Thompson, LB, Washington; Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, CB, Oregon; Special teams: Tom Hackett, P, Utah.
Next up is the AFCA FBS All-America team:
First-team offense: Mariota First-team defense: Leonard Williams, DL, USC; Wright; Kikaha; Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, CB, Oregon. Specialists: Hackett
And here's the Football Writers Association of America All-America team:
First-team offense: Mariota, Jake Fisher, OL, Oregon First-team defense: Orchard, Kikaha, Wright III, Specialists: Hackett Second-team defense: Williams, Kendricks
The Sporting News also named Mariota its player of the year. Ifo out No doubt, you've heard the news that Oregon cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, whose name appears on some All-America lists above, is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury. It's not an apocalyptic blow to the Ducks. But you don't want to be facing Winston down one of your best defenders, either. Here's some reaction: Our own Ted Miller weighs in here. Add Ekpre-Olomu to a long list of injured Oregon players. The injury leaves Oregon's secondary in flux. Aaron Fentress has some thoughts on where the Ducks go from here.
News/notes/team reports
New Arizona safety Paul Magloire is looking forward to getting his career started. ASU will now be an Adidas school (more below in the JFF section). Do the Bears have the best receivers in the country? Colorado punter Darragh O'Neill will play in the East-West Shrine game. OC John Garrett won't be retained by Gary Andersen. A look at Stanford's roundabout trip to Levi's. UCLA running back Paul Perkins has a low-key approach to things. Antwaun Woods won't be available for USC's bowl game. Will the Las Vegas Bowl be the last we see of Travis Wilson? Kikaha becomes Washington's sixth unanimous All-American. A look at WSU's two new JUCO players.
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