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Did you watch the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Thursday night on ESPN? Did you come away as confused as Lou Holtz and Mark May on a good day?
Try to follow this bouncing ball.
Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley didn't win the Bednarik Award as the best defensive player in college football. Pitt defensive tackle Aaron Donald did.
Have to admit, the last time I noticed the Pitt defense, the Panthers were getting shredded by Jameis Winston and Florida State in the season opener. No doubt Donald's a very good player, but defensive tackles don't generally call defensive signals as the quarterback on that side of the ball.
As glaring as it was, the Mosley snub was nothing compared to the Walter Camp Foundation confusion. That group picks All-American teams, and it named AJ McCarron to the first team and Winston to the second team.
It also named Winston as its national player of the year.
Wait. What? Jesse Palmer is more logical.
The good news: That All-American nod makes the Alabama quarterback eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame, which is a lifetime achievement award and one that McCarron richly deserves.
McCarron also became the first Alabama player to win the Maxwell Award as the nation's most outstanding player. He earned that recognition the same week he wasn't chosen first-team or second-team All-SEC by the league's coaches but instead was named honorable mention.
It was that kind of night Thursday. Auburn's Tre Mason wasn't even a finalist for the Doak Walker Award as the nation's best running back, but he'll be in New York as one of the top six vote-getters for the Heisman Trophy. Gus Malzahn was named the Home Depot Coach of the Year as the best college coach in the country, which he certainly earned, and he said, "This is for all the high school coaches out there."
That's the kind of wild and wacky year it's been. There's no telling what the bowl season has in store.