Former recipient Johnny Manziel and 2012 award finalist Braxton Miller highlight the 2013 Davey O'Brien Award watch list, released on Wednesday. The Davey O'Brien Award is given annually to the top quarterback in college football, as selected by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. The Award was first given in 1981. Here is the full O'Brien watch list:
The best quarterbacks in college football, according to the 2013 O’Brien list
Johnny Manziel, Braxton Miller and Teddy Bridgewater highlight the O’Brien watch list.
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- David Ash, Texas
- Blake Bortles, UCF
- Tajh Boyd, Clemson
- Teddy Bridgewater, Louisville
- Terrance Broadway, Louisiana-Lafayette
- Kolton Browning, ULM
- Derek Carr, Fresno State
- Rakeem Cato, Marshall
- Cody Fajardo, Nevada
- David Fales, San Jose State
- James Franklin, Missouri
- Devin Gardner, Michigan
- Kevin Hogan, Stanford
- Brett Hundley, UCLA
- Chuckie Keeton, Utah State
- Taylor Kelly, Arizona State
- Jordan Lynch, Northern Illinois
- Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M
- Marcus Mariota, Oregon
- Taylor Martinez, Nebraska
- AJ McCarron, Alabama
- Braxton Miller, Ohio State
- Stephen Morris, Miami
- Aaron Murray, Georgia
- Casey Pachall, TCU
- Keith Price, Washington
- Bryn Renner, North Carolina
- Keenan Reynolds, Navy
- Tyler Russell, Mississippi State
- Connor Shaw, South Carolina
- Tyler Tettleton, Ohio
- Logan Thomas, Virginia Tech
- Bo Wallace, Ole Miss
- Keith Wenning, Ball State
Manziel will attempt to become the fourth quarterback to win the O'Brien Award twice, a feat that has not been accomplished since Oklahoma's Jason White took the trophy in 2003 and 2004. Other potential winners include the aforementioned Miller, as well as Clemson's Tajh Boyd, Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater and Georgia's Aaron Murray.
BYU has received the most Davey O’Brien Awards, earning four trophies in the first 11 years that the Award was given out. Florida and Oklahoma have each won three Davey O’Brien Awards, while Florida State, Miami, Penn State, Iowa and Texas have won two apiece.
The last three Heisman Trophy winners -- Manziel, Baylor's Robert Griffin III, and Auburn's Cam Newton -- have also taken home the O'Brien. In fact, of the last seven O'Brien Award recipients, only one -- 2009 winner Colt McCoy -- did not take home the Heisman.
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