Knights Earn Multiple Conference Awards

By  //  December 14, 2013

borTles has 3,280 yards this season

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — Claiming the inaugural American Athletic Conference title and its first trip to a BCS game, UCF laid its paws on two major awards while 11 Knights were placed on all-league teams Wednesday. Head Coach George O’Leary was unanimously selected as The American’s Coach of the Year and junior quarterback Blake Bortles was tagged as The American’s Offensive Player of the Year.

With 11, UCF tied for the most players who received all-conference accolades. The Knights also placed both of their running backs, Storm Johnson (first team) and William Stanback (second team), on the all-conference teams. (UCFKnights.com)
With 11, UCF tied for the most players who received all-conference accolades. The Knights also placed both of their running backs, Storm Johnson (first team) and William Stanback (second team), on the all-conference teams. (UCFKnights.com)

The awards were voted on by the league’s 10 head coaches.

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UCF’s Postseason Conference Honors
Coach of the Year
George O’Leary

Offensive Player of the Year
Blake Bortles

First Team
Blake Bortles – QB – Jr. – Oviedo, Fla. – 239-351, 22 TD, 7 INT, 3,280 YDS, 68.1 COMP%, 5 RUSH TD
Storm Johnson – RB – Jr. – Loganville, Ga. – 193 ATT, 1,015 YDS, 11 TD
Jordan McCray – OG – Sr. – Miami, Fla. – 12 STARTS
Justin McCray – OG – Sr. – Miami, Fla. – 12 STARTS
Jacoby Glenn – CB – Fr. – Prichard, Ala. – 43 TACK, 3.0 TFL, 2.0 SACK, 15 BRUP, 2 INT, 2 FF
Terrance Plummer – LB – Jr. – Orange Park, Fla. – 96 TACK, 8.0 TFL, 2.0 SACK, 6 BRUP, 2 INT, 2 FF

Second Team
Chris Martin – OT – Sr. – Fort Walton Beach, Fla. – 12 STARTS
William Stanback – RB – Fr. – Hempstead, N.Y. – 92 ATT, 410 YDS, 6 TD
J.J. Worton – WR – Jr. – Homestead, Fla. – 42 REC, 665 YDS, 7 TD
Clayton Geathers – S – Jr. – Hemingway, S.C. – 90 TACK, 4.5 TFL, 10 BRUP, 2 INT, 2 FF
Shawn Moffitt – PK – Jr. – Orlando, Fla. – 20-22 FG, 90.9 PCT, 50 LG, 42-42 PAT

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Head Coach George O’Leary
–  O’Leary, a finalist for the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year Award, picked up his fourth conference coach of the year accolade in 10 seasons as UCF’s head coach. Combined with his time at Georgia Tech, O’Leary now has six league awards in 17 campaigns as a collegiate head coach.
–  Only South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier (nine) and Kansas State’s Bill Snyder (seven) have more conference coach of the year trophies among active head coaches than O’Leary.
–  The leader of the Knights has guided the 2013 team to an 11-1 record and its first undefeated season in conference play at 8-0. The Black and Gold also has earned its highest ranking in all three major polls as it is No. 15 in the Associated Press Top 25, the USA Today Coaches Poll and the BCS.
–  UCF did not receive votes in the AP Preseason Top 25, but it went on to tie the school record with 11 wins, and it will enter the bowl season on an eight-game winning streak, also a school record. The Knights are the youngest football program to reach a BCS game as their first season of football was in 1979.

BORTLES HAS 3,280 YARDS THIS SEASON

With 11, UCF tied for the most players who received all-conference accolades. The Knights also placed both of their running backs, Storm Johnson (first team) and William Stanback (second team), on the all-conference teams.

It marks the first time in school history UCF had two running backs earn all-league honors in the same season (first year in a league was in 2002 in the MAC).