Olu Oluwatimi wins the Outland and the Rimington Trophies

Submitted by Leaders And Best on December 8th, 2022 at 7:31 PM

Olusegun Oluwatimi wins the Outland (best interior lineman) and Rimington (best center) Trophies. Michigan's first Outland winner and first center to win it since 2005.

1VaBlue1

December 8th, 2022 at 7:39 PM ^

OUTSTANDING!!!  This man deserves to be in NY at the Heisman ceremony next to Blake!  What a gift he was from UVA - I hope we don't owe them anything in return!

Leaders And Best

December 8th, 2022 at 7:40 PM ^

Corum unfortunately missed out on the Doak Walker Award. Bijan Robinson wins it. I always thought it was going to be hard for him to win it while missing the last 2.5 games, and Donovan Edwards blowing up.

BleedThatBlue

December 8th, 2022 at 11:14 PM ^

THIS. What a damn shame. I don’t mean to hijack the greatness of Olu. But the amount of snub Blake has gotten is bullshit. 
 

Blake: 10 less carries and 100 yard less than Bijan Robinson. Let’s break this down. Harbz, if you remember, played him sparingly in the cupcake OOC. 12, 9 and 13 carries in those three games. Unlike SEC or BS teams, they only used him at minimum at those games. Michigan uses BC more in those games, way more yardage and touchdowns compared to Robinson.  

Let’s look at the schedule cause the entire damn narrative prior to OSU was how easy the schedule was right? Well, too 15 defenses in the country were: Illinois, Iowa, PSU, OSU. 3 of which finished top 10. Texas? 1 top 10 (alabama) followed up by Kansas st (ranked right behind OSU). Sure, I didn’t break down rush d, but I think you know who would still have a better schedule. Robinson had 21 carries with 2.7 average rushing at Bama. Iowa and Illinois statistically were better on d with PSU tying Bama. BC didn’t average less than 4.6 yards with 100 yards over each game. Robinson had 57. 
 

In conclusion, these awards are absolute scams. BC should be the heisman winner (bias maybe) at worst 4th. Worst of all, comparing his body of work vs that of the Doak winner Bijan is beyond laughable. Not even close how much better BC was a whole. By and large Bijan Robinson got majority of his yards on cupcake teams and Michigan rested him on said cupcake teams. 
 

In Blake we trust. 

RobM_24

December 8th, 2022 at 7:54 PM ^

Why does the Outland specifically say "interior" lineman? They give it to tackles. I'd never seen that description before, but it says it on their website.