MIAMI (July 19, 2019) - FIU football's Dallas Connell has been named to the Rimington Trophy Watch List ahead of the 2019 season, as the reliable center earns recognition entering his final year with the Panthers.
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I College Football. Since its inception, the seventeen-year old award has raised over $4.2 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis.
Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only two-time winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.