Norman Named to Outland Trophy Watch List
TAMPA, FLA., JULY 24, 2019 – USF senior
Marcus Norman has been named to the 2019 Outland Trophy Award Preseason Watch List, making the watch list for the award recognizing the nation's most outstanding interior lineman for the second straight season.
Norman (Sebastian) becomes the third Bull named to a national award watch list prior to the 2019 season, joining senior tight end
Mitchell Wilcox (Mackey Award) and junior defensive back
Mike Hampton (Jim Thorpe Award).
A second team all-conference selection in 2017, Norman has started 34 straight games at right tackle for the Bulls and has helped plow the way for three straight 1,000-yard rushers, including
Jordan Cronkrite who ran for 1,121 yards last season and will return for his senior campaign after missing the spring due to a minor injury. Cronkrite continued a string of five straight 1,000-yard rushers for the Bulls dating to 2014, the most consecutive in program history.
Norman helped lead Cronkrite to a USF and American Athletic Conference record 302 yards rushing at UMass last season and also helped Cronkrite post a USF record-tying five consecutive 100-yard rushing games during the year. The Bulls ran fo 2,517 yards in 2018, the fourth-best total in program history, while averaging 193.6 yards per game on the ground, the fifth-best mark in program history.
Norman is among all five offensive line starters from the 2018 Gasparilla Bowl that return for USF in 2019. He is joined by fellow senior
William Atterbury (Clearwater), who has made 23 straight starts, and sophomores
Brad Cecil (Jacksonville),
Demetris Harris (Jacksonville) and
Donovan Jennings (Tampa).
USF opens the season on Fri., Aug. 30 with an ESPN primetime clash with Wisconsin at 7 p.m. in Raymond James Stadium. Season, single-game and ticket packages are available by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting USFBullstix.com or
Ticketmaster.
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Having completed just its 22nd season of football, and 19th at the FBS level, the USF football program has earned 10 bowl appearances, including a current run of four straight, and owns a record of 6-3 in bowl games. The Bulls have appeared in the national top 25 rankings in each of the past three seasons, including a program record run of 20 straight weeks in the top 25, and in 2018 reached the program's 150th win faster than any FBS program in state of Florida history. USF has posted a pair of 10-plus win seasons in the last three years, including a program-record 11 wins (11-2) in 2016, and logged 15 winning seasons overall. Since first taking the field in 1997, the USF program has reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings (2007), seen 30 players selected in the NFL Draft, 14 named All-American and 29 earn first-team all-conference selection.
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