Offensive Player of the Year
QB Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M

Defensive Player of the Year
DE Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
 
Co-Special Teams Player of the Year
K Caleb Sturgis, Florida
KR/PR Ace Sanders, South Carolina

Freshman of the Year
QB Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M

Scholar-Athlete of the Year
C Barrett Jones, Alabama

Jacobs Blocking Trophy
OT Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M

Co-Coaches of the Year 
Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M
Will Muschamp, Florida

The Butkus Award Watch List for the top collegiate linebacker was announced by the Butkus Foundation on Monday of this week. The award is named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Hall of Fame linebacker, Dick Butkus. There are also high school and professional categories of the award. 

Boston College's Luke Kuechly won the award in 2011, but has since moved on to the NFL. Notre Dame's Manti Te'o is the only returning finalist.Te'o won the inaugaral High School Butkus Award in 2008, but former Ole Miss and current San Francisco 49er, Patrick Willis, is the only player to win two versions of the award so far (college and pro). As mentioned before on CFU, Georgia's Jarvis Jones is top rated NFL talent and also a returning semi-finalist. 

There are 51 linebackers on the watch and the SEC has almost one-third of the players on the list with 16. The Big Ten and Pac-12 have the next most with nine and seven respectively. Most FBS conferences were represented except the MAC and WAC despite a player from the FCS on the list, Howard's Keith Pough. 

You can find more information about the Dick Butkus Award at theButkusAward.com.

2012 Butkus Award Watch List:

SEC (16):
Jonathan Bostic, Florida
Zaviar Gooden, Missouri
Alanzo Highsmith, Arkansas
DeVonte Holloman, South Carolina
Jelani Jenkins, Florida
A.J. Johnson, Tennessee
Nico Johnson, Alabama
Jarvis Jones, Georgia
Cameron Lawrence, Mississippi State 
John Lotulelei, Florida
Lerentee McCray, Florida
Kevin Minter, LSU
Damontre Moore, Texas A&M 
C.J. Mosley, Alabama
Sean Porter, Texas A&M 
Cornelius Washington, Georgia

Big Ten (9):
Denicos Allen, Michigan State 
Chris Borland, Wisconsin
Jonathan Brown, Illinois
Max Bullough, Michigan State 
Gerald Hodges, Penn State 
Michael Mauti, Penn State 
James Morris, Iowa
David Nwabuisi, Northwestern 
Etienne Sabino, Ohio State

PAC-12 (7):
Dion Bailey, Southern California
Travis Long, Washington State 
Brandon Magee, Arizona State 
Trent Murphy, Stanford 
Douglas Rippy, Colorado
Shane Skov, Stanford 
Chase Thomas, Stanford 

ACC (5):
Christian Jones, Florida State 
Nick Moody, Florida State 
Kevin Reddick, North Carolina
Kenny Tate, Maryland
Bruce Taylor, Virginia Tech 

Big 12 (4):
Arthur Brown, Kansas State 
A.J. Klein, Iowa State 
Jake Knott, Iowa State 
Tom Wort, Oklahoma

Big East (3):
Steve Beauharnais, Rutgers 
Khaseem Greene, Rutgers 
Sio Moore, Connecticut

Conference USA (2):
Jamie Collins, Southern Mississippi
Ja'Gared Davis, Southern Methodist University

Independents (2):
Uona Kaveinga, BYU
Manti Te'o, Notre Dame

Mountain West (1):
Jeremiah Greene, Nevada

Sun Belt (1):
Andrew Jackson, Western Kentucky

FCS-MEAC (1):
Keith Pough, Howard