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Ryan McGee collects a first-pace for a second straight year in the FWAA's Best Writing Contest. 

Results for four categories of 34th ANNUAL FWAA BEST WRITING CONTEST.

The Football Writers Association of America released its 2026 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List today, selecting three returning FWAA All-Americans among 68 defensive standouts as contenders for the national defensive player of the year. The list hosts players from 47 different schools and all 10 Division I FBS conferences plus Independents.

The Football Writers Association of America has announced the preseason watch list for the 2026 Outland Trophy, recognizing 68 returning standout interior linemen representing all 10 of the FBS conferences plus Independents. The watch list features players spread among 49 different Division I FBS programs and includes two returning first-team FWAA All-Americans.

Busting the budget: $40 million rosters and unintened consequences in the Power 4

Lane Kiffin's messy, winding move from Ole Miss to LSU

It was a long marriage in Stillwater between Oklahoma State and Mike Gundy: Breaking up is sure hard to do after all these years.

Wilson Alexander's Steve Ellis FWAA Co-Beat Writer of the Year samples from covering one of college football's biggest stories of 2025.

Where do Cinderellas fit in College Football Playoff? James Madison
aims to prove it belongs.
 

A meeting with Ed Orgeron on Miami Beach at the News Cafe where his coaching future, finances and his sons coaching at the U were discussed..

How LSU pulled Lane Kiffin out of Ole Miss. ‘It's the best job in America.’
He was advised.  First of four stories by Wilson Alexander, 2025 Steve Ellis Co-Beat Wrier of the Year.

Why Joey McGuire was uniquely suited to lead Texas Tech's CFP run. First of four stories by Steve Ellis Co-Beat Writer of the Year for the 2025 season Justin Williams.

Williams, Alexander are the FWAA's best beat writers in 2025

Brett Ciancia, the founder and owner of Pick Six Previews, is the seventh winner of the  Edward Aschoff Rising Star Award, which is presented annually by the Football Writers Association of America. The award is named after Edward Aschoff, the beloved ESPN college football reporter who died on Christmas Eve in 2019 on his 34th birthday from previously undetected Stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in his lungs.

FWAA Writing Contest deadline extended until June 1.

The Volney Meece Scholarship goes to another deserving student, the daughter of long-time FWAA member Andrea Adelson of ESPN.com.

One first-time winner and 10 previous ones comprise the 17th Super 11 Awards, presented annually by the Football Writers Association of America to the best performing College Sports Communicators departments in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The awards announced today are for the 2025 season.

Tony Casillas received the news a few weeks ago that he had been named the winner of the 2026 Nagurski Legends Award. He was overwhelmed when he opened his mail and read the letter from the Charlotte Touchdown Club and the FWAA that he had been selected as the recipient, more than four decades after being named an FWAA All-American with the Sooners in 1984 and '85.

The FWAA is accepting entries for its Best Writing Contest.

The FWAA is now taking applcations for the Rising Star Award.