Similar to the amount of bowl games. Every mediocre team makes a bowl game, just about every center in D-1 football gets names to this watch list, kids don't keep score in t-ball games..... aren't the "scrubs' ever weeded out of society anymore ? Wow, we have become a socialist nation, even in our sports...uggggh. C'mon, 'Merica !!!!
That was the point I was trying to make. I would think 20 players would be more than enough for the "Rimmington Watch List". If someone had a good season, and they wanted to add him to the list, they still could. There is only one center per team, and my guess is that they nominated 90% of the returning starters.
By contrast, I noticed that the Paul Hornung award, to which Daz Patterson was nominated, was much more selective. The Paul Hornung award goes to "the most versatile player in major college football", and includes nominees that have scored 7 different ways, passing, receiving, rushing, interception returns, fumble returns, punt returns and kick returns. As such there could be 4-5 players on each team that could be considered, or about 500 total players. From those those 500 players they pared it down to 44 nominees (about 10% of the pool), including 11 Seniors, 22 Juniors, and 11 Sophomores. Daz is one of the 11 Seniors, so that's a credit to him.
Last year Daz was not the featured back, but he still gained 1,126 all-purpose yards (93.8 yards/game), including 526 kick off return yards and 348 rushing yards. The only other nominees from the MAC were Corey Jones of Toledo and Ronnie Moore of BG.