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Can you believe the 2024 season is halfway over?
Week 7 marked the official midway mark of the season. With every team getting two bye weeks in 2024, there are just seven weeks remaining in the regular season before conference championship week.
We’ve learned a lot already, and things are about to get even wilder over the final seven weeks of the season. Here are our midseason awards as we are halfway through the month of October.
Heisman: Ashton Jeanty, Boise State
This one is pretty easy. Jeanty has been unstoppable through the first six games of the season. Yes, Boise State is outside the power conferences and yes, the Broncos haven’t played a super-tough schedule. But Jeanty is just ridiculous.
The junior has rushed for 1,248 yards so far through 2024. That’s 300-plus yards more than Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson, the country’s second-leading rusher. Jeanty’s 31 carries for 217 yards against Hawaii late Saturday night was his worst per-carry performance of the season. And he still averaged seven yards an attempt!
For the season, Jeanty is averaging 9.9 yards a rush, and he has scored 18 total touchdowns through six games. Three of those came against No. 2 Oregon, when he had 25 carries for 192 yards in the Broncos’ 37-34 Week 2 loss. It’s hard to justify a Heisman case for any other player at this point.
Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty is in his own class so far this season. (Darryl Oumi/Getty Images)
Best QB: Jalen Milroe, Alabama
You can make a case for Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel, especially after the Ducks took down Ohio State on Saturday and Milroe threw two interceptions against South Carolina in Alabama’s narrow win. But we’re going with a player who has made incredible progress since he was benched in Week 3 of the 2023 season and the QB who may be the most vital to his top team’s offense.
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Publish date : 2024-10-14 13:00:23
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