I moved this post to the top this morning.

I just found out about these awards. I suppose we are a day late and a dollar short.

Story links:

Rocky Top

Blackshoe Stories

The Mythical National Champion

FOR: overall outstanding coverage. The blog that has the best content, period.

CRITERIA: posting frequency and quality; insight, humor, and professionalism. The blog that represents the idea that blogging is something different and worthwhile best.

The Gary Danielson Award

FOR: Cogent, interesting analysis.

CRITERIA: Emphasis placed on statistical manipulation, well researched pieces that reveal something new, and/or solid argumentative pieces that function as the authoritative last word on a subject.

The Trev Alberts Quits To Do Construction Award

FOR: comic relief; overall hilarity.

CRITERIA: This one’s simple: the funniest college football blog.

The Job Award

FOR: The blog that has suffered through its chosen team’s dismal season with the most dignity.

CRITERIA: Continued engagement in the face of crippling, misery-inducing defeat. A stiff-upper lip and sane reaction to everything crumbling to dust.

The Keith Jackson Circa 1995 Award

FOR: The blog with the most consistently expressive and excellent writing.

CRITERIA: Mechanical competency, yes, but the ability to turn a devastatingly funny phrase or write something compelling is probably more important. This isn’t an award for copy editing; it’s an award for kickin’ prose.

Notes on voting for these awards: please enter the root URL for the blog in question as your vote.

AWARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL MOMENTS OF BRILLIANCE

The Tyrone Prothro And His Amazing Catch Award

FOR: The finest individual post of the college football year.

ELIGIBLE: Any post that deals with the sport posted in August or later.

CRITERIA: Longer is better but only if the same high quality standard is maintained throughout; should be memorable and either deeply true or
incredibly hilarious or both.

The Chris Berman Antimatter Award

FOR: The best contribution to the lingo of our little interniche, be it a nickname, neologism, or catchy phrase used with frequency.

NON SUGGESTIVE BUT ILLUMINATING EXAMPLES: “Hennebriated”; “QED, MFer”;
“Ron New Mexico.”

The Lee Corso Award

FOR: The worst prediction of the year, be it for a team’s season or an individual game.

CRITERIA: Hilarity and uniqueness is desired here; picking Michigan to go 10-1 probably doesn’t qualify because Michigan was widely expected to
be very good. Purdue, on the other hand…

The Phil Steele Award

FOR: The exact inverse of the above. The most prescient words uttered in the college football blogosphere.

CRITERIA: We’re looking for something dead on and unusual. Predicting USC to be good doesn’t count; predicting USF to wax Louisville would probably be a winner.

*The Brad Nessler Award *

FOR: The best recurring feature of the year.

CRITERIA: The feature should be posted weekly and be generally good and stuff.

Notes on voting for these awards: please use the URL of a specific post for these. In the case of the recurring feature award, please the most
recent edition of said feature. For the nicknames and predictions please leave a note specifying the exact phrase/prediction.

Since these latter categories may be somewhat obscure there will be a plug-your-stuff roundtable before the nomination phase.