The Big College Football Trophy is a trophy SB Nation made up to celebrate the internet-friendliest things that happen on college football fields each weekend. We plan on making an actual trophy at some point and giving it away somehow. Here are this week’s top performers.
The Big College Football Trophy watch list, Week 2: You gotta pose to win
This week, the Big College Football Trophy takes a look at -- BOOM
Leonard Fournette, RB, LSU
Leonard Fournette, considered the top running back in the class of 2014 and by many to be the best player at any position, scored his first college TD. It wasn’t exciting -- it was but a four-yard run against Sam Houston State -- and he did this:
We regret to inform Leonard that just about 0 percent of Heisman voters are currently considering him for the trophy. Although he is, as our scouting report described, an “otherworldly” talent, he had eight carries for 18 yards in his first game against an FBS team and 92 yards against the mighty Bearkats.
However, he is very much under consideration for the Big College Football Trophy. First off, we love Fournette’s swagger and optimism. The kid wants to do big things and thinks he can. Pose, kid.
Heisman candidates should constantly pose. You don’t get elected president without telling everybody you’re running for president over and over, and you shouldn’t win the Heisman without repeatedly announcing your candidacy. Players should be ineligible to win the Heisman if they don’t do the Heisman pose at least once in the season, and they should be docked points in the voting for each score they don’t follow up with a Heisman pose.
Furthermore, I think lesser-known trophies should reward players for announcing their candidacy via poses, a move which will certainly boost their brand. It should give a receiver a better chance of winning the Biletnikoff if, post-touchdown, he makes a fake tiptoe grab. After pinning opponents deep, punters should grandstand in an exaggerated punt pose to get their hands on the Ray Guy. After calling a dope offensive play that leads to a score, an offensive coordinator should ask his head coach to kneel, then hunch behind him to indicate he wants the Broyles.
As of right now, the Big College Football Trophy doesn’t have a physical form. We’ll get back to you, aspiring players. Just pose however you want.
Taysom Hill, QB, BYU
Taysom Hill is an actual Heisman candidate, because he is a very good quarterback for a team that really, really could go undefeated. But let's ignore that for a moment and focus on the hilarious fact that playing Texas is his Super Mario star/spinach/nitrous burst, the thing that turns him from a very good QB into a Mormon Gilgamesh.
Last year against Texas, Hill had 259 yards rushing and three touchdowns, career highs in both categories. In fact, nearly 100 yards more than his next-best effort. This very literally got Texas’ defensive coordinator, Manny Diaz, fired. So you’d think things would go better next year, and -- nope.
Only one of Texas’ 11 players posed a potential obstacle on Hill’s way to the end zone. He appears on screen for exactly as long as “Henchman No. 14” in a Steven Seagal movie.
Hill only had 99 yards rushing this time, but his three third-quarter touchdowns turned the game from a 6-0 awkwardfest into a 34-0 blowout.
Every team has a player whose name immediately brings shivers. Most of the time, it’s a player from your school’s biggest rival who made plays year-after-year in the big rivalry game. It’s part of that school’s lore and your school’s repressed memories.
Hill’s legend in Austin is less common, because BYU-Texas is by no means a rivalry. It’s a religious school in Utah playing a school whose football team is a religion, one whose fans assumed they’d stomp the other squad twice. That makes it more random and funnier, and its why Taysom is up for the Big College Football Trophy.
Brock Hekking, DE, Nevada
A picture says 1,000: 
The main discussion on the Internet was whether this guy looks more like The Boz or Hulk Hogan. When that’s the conversation people are having, you, sir, are doing well for yourself.
Hekking is also good at football. He was first-team All-Mountain West and named to the preseason first team this year. He had eight tackles and one for loss in the relatively comfortable win against Washington State. Nevada isn’t the favorite in the Mountain West, but the Wolf Pack are off to a 2-0 start with a win over a Pac-12 squad.
This week’s frontrunner
Josiah Monroe, WR, UTSA
Josiah Monroe is a 5’6 wide receiver for the UTSA Roadrunners with zero catches on the year. He did this:
I made this: 
You see, Arizona safety William Parks thought he had open road ahead of him. He forgot he was dealing with a roadrunner, and that sometimes open roads are actually brick walls:
The UTSA Roadrunners meeped their way into our hearts, and although they lost to Arizona, we think that with 38 seniors, they’ll do damage in the C-USA this year. We wouldn’t pick them against Oklahoma State Saturday night after the way the Cowboys played FSU, but we wouldn’t be surprised if they made it close.
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