Gopher Football Pre-Season Honors, Posted August 28 2005

According to the Goal Line Club as I type this there are 3 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes, 5 seconds, and an undeterminable amount of milliseconds until the Gopher football season kicks off. For those of us non-math majors the Gophers play Thursday evening against the University of Tulsa starting at 9:15 pm CDT. The game will be shown on ESPN2.

   

ESPN.com has the Gophers picked for 7^th place tie in the Big Ten this year. The Gophers do have a tough schedule. They lose Illinois and Northwestern and get Ohio State and Purdue.

   

But as I posted before, I start every season believing we will win the Big Ten title.

   

Below are the preseason honors bestowed on our players:

   

Laurence Maroney, Tailback, Junior

-#3 College Football News Top 20 Heisman Watch List

-Preseason All-American, Athlon

-Preseason All-American, Lindy’s

-Preseason All-American, Street & Smith’s

-No. 4 overall running back, Lindy’s

-Preseason All-America First Team, Rivals.com

-Preseason All-American Team, The Sporting News

-Heisman Trophy dark horse candidate, Sports Illustrated

-Player of the Year “Watch List”, Walter Camp Football Foundation

   

Greg Eslinger, Senior, Center

-2005 Playboy All-America Team

-2005 Rimington Trophy watch list

-2005 Outland Trophy watch list

-2005 Lombardi Award watch list

-Preseason All-America First Team, Rivals.com

-Preseason All-America Team, Sports Illustrated

-Preseason All-American Team, The Sporting News

-Preseason All-American, Athlon

-Preseason All-American, Lindy’s

-Preseason All-American, Street & Smith’s

-No. 1 center in the country, Lindy’s

   

Mark Setterstrom, Senior, Offensive Guard

-Preseason All-America, Street & Smith’s

-No. 3 guard in the nation by Lindy’s

-2005 Outland Trophy Watch List

-Preseason All-American Team, The Sporting News

   

41 days to the Michigan game at the Big House.