After gaining 172 all-purpose yards against Tennessee on Saturday, De’Anthony Thomas was named to Week Three’s Paul Hornung Award Honor Roll. The award, given annually at the end of the season, honors the most versatile player in major college football. Thomas was one of five players named to this week’s honor roll, which included 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M) and running backs Jeff Scott (Ole Miss), Trey Watts (Tulsa) and Marion Grice (Arizona State).
This is the first Paul Hornung Award Honor Roll selection of the season Thomas has earned, but he was one of 44 players to make the preseason watch list for the award. Against Tennessee, Thomas rushed for 86 yards, caught one pass for 28 yards and had 58 yards on two kickoff returns.
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The Oregon men’s golf team tees off it’s 2013-14 season on Monday at the Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational at Golf Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash. The tournament features 14 other teams, including six from the Pac-12: Arizona State, Oregon State, USC, Utah, Washington and Washington State. The Ducks played in this invitational last year, finishing tied for sixth place with a three-round score of 35-over par. Oregon hopes to improve on its successful 2012-13 season in which it made the NCAA Regionals, missing the NCAA Championships by two strokes.
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Saturday night’s game between Arizona State and Wisconsin ended in mass confusion, and Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott is not happy with the role the officials played in the hectic final play. Scott reprimanded and issued additional sanctions against the group of officials — a Pac-12 crew — on Sunday for failing to act with enough urgency or administering the situation properly, the Pac-12 wrote in their release today. Wisconsin had the ball at the Arizona State 13-yard line with 18 seconds left in the game, trailing 32-30 with no timeouts.
Quarterback Joel Stave — in an attempt to improve the position for Wisconsin’s ensuing field goal — took a short rush to his left, took a knee, and set the ball down. However, the officials and Arizona State’s defenders were not sure if Stave’s knee actually touched the ground. Arizona State, thinking it was a fumble, jumped on the ball delaying Wisconsin’s chance to spike the ball and stop the clock. By the time the Badgers got up to the ball, the clock had run out. Through all this, the referees didn’t officially rule if Stave was down, had given himself up, or fumbled the ball. Scott said Monday, “After a thorough review, we have determined that the officials fell short of the high standard in which Pac-12 games should be managed.”