The Pac-12 named USC's Caleb Williams and Tuli Tuipulotu its offensive and defensive players of the year; Lincoln Riley was not recognized as the top coach.
. Two more Bruins were chosen for the second team — linebacker Darius Muasau and offensive lineman Atonio Mafi, along with four honorable mentions, among them quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson.this weekend, Williams was a no-brainer as the Pac-12’s top offensive player. After transferring from Oklahoma last February, he was instrumental in leading USC to an 11-2 record as he racked up a school-record 48 total touchdowns. His 4,447 total yards, also a school record, rank fourth in the nation.
Williams is the second consecutive USC player to earn the honor, after wideout Drake London won last year. Tuipulotu is the second USC player to win defensive player honors in the last three years, after safety Talanoa Hufanga took the award during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.After earning first-team All-Pac-12 honors last season, Tuipulotu was a force along USC’s defensive line as a junior, tallying 12½ sacks to lead the nation.
It could’ve been a clean sweep of the awards for USC, but while Riley is a candidate for national coach of the year, the Pac-12 chose Oregon State’s Jonathan Smith and Washington’s Kalen DeBoer to share its award, the first time that’s happened since 2015. A USC coach hasn’t won since 2006, when Pete Carroll earned the honor for the second consecutive season. The year before, he shared the award with Karl Dorrell, the only Bruins coach to win it over the last two decades.
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