Cam Skattebo edges Heisman candidate Ashton Jeanty for AP Player of the Week
Dec 9, 2024, 9:29 AM | Updated: 9:35 am
Cam Skattebo continued his late-season tear with 170 yards rushing, 208 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns in Arizona State’s 45-19 win over Iowa State in the Big 12 Championship game. He edged a Heisman favorite, Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty, to win The Associated Press Player of the Week award for conference championship weekend.
ASU’s senior running back averaged 10.6 yards per rushing attempt and had three carries of more than 20 yards. His touchdown runs were from 3 and 2 yards, and he had a 33-yard scoring catch. His 2,074 all-purpose yards are a program record and second in the nation.
Skattebo will go into the Sun Devils’ College Football Playoff quarterfinal with 22 total touchdowns and 19 rushing touchdowns, both tied for the school record, and he needs 75 yards to break the program single-season rushing record of 1,642.
Skattebo is player of the week for the second time this season. He was honored after the Sun Devils’ Week 2 win over Mississippi State for rushing for a career-high 262 yards and amassing 297 all-purpose yards.
Cam Skattebo’s AP Player of the Week runner-up is Ashton Jeanty, a Heisman candidate
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Boise State running back and Heisman Trophy hopeful Ashton Jeanty rushed for 209 yards and a touchdown in a 21-7 win over UNLV in the Mountain West championship game.
The junior running back became the program’s all-time leading rusher with 4,655 yards.
He is the only person ahead of Skattebo with 2,613 total yards from scrimmage this season.
An honorable mention pick helped ASU earn a College Football Playoff bye
Freshman Nolan Hauser made a 56-yard field goal as time expired as Clemson beat SMU 34-31 in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. His previous long field goal was 51 yards. …
Army QB Bryson Daily ran for 126 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries in a 35-14 win over Tulane in the American Athletic Conference title game. …
Georgia backup QB Gunner Stockton, who replaced an injured Carson Beck at the start of the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship game against Texas, was 12 of 16 for 71 yards in a 22-19 overtime win. …
Clemson QB Cade Klubnik completed 24 of 41 passes for 262 yards and an ACC championship game record-tying four passing TDs. …
Oregon WR Tex Johnson caught 11 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown in a 45-37 win over Penn State in the Big Ten championship game. …
SMU QB Kevin Jennings was 31 of 50 for 304 yards and three TDs against Clemson.
Six stats
— Georgia has trailed at halftime in six of its 13 games. The Bulldogs have won four of them.
— Nebraska will end the longest bowl drought among power-conference programs — seven years — when it plays Boston College in the Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 28.
— Arizona State and Indiana are among three power-conference programs since 2012 to increase their win total by eight games from one season to the next. TCU also did it in 2021-22.
— SMU’s loss to Clemson ended the Mustangs’ 18-game conference win streak.
— Ohio, which claimed its first Mid-American Conference title since 1968, has won 10 games in three straight seasons.
— Marshall’s 31-3 win over Louisiana-Lafayette was the largest margin of victory in the seven Sun Belt championship games and fewest points allowed by the winning team.
AP voters: Aaron Beard, Pat Graham, Stephen Hawkins, Pete Iacobelli, Mark Long, John Marshall, Eric Olson, John Zenor.
