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Because of that, a serious case could be made that any of five returning starters - Missouri’s Chase Daniel, Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell, Texas’ Colt McCoy, Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford and Kansas’ Todd Reesing - could have a legitimate chance for a trip to the Heisman Trophy presentation in New York City in December. If they can combine a big statistical season with luck and team success.
On October 14, 2006 Colt McCoy threw a UT record six touchdown passes in the win against Baylor.
Colt McCoy is a member of the Church of Christ, and attends University Avenue Church of Christ in Austin, Texas.
On May 29, 2006, Colt McCoy swam 300 yards across a lake to help save the life of Ken Herrington who was having a seizure on a small dock that extended into the privately owned lake.
also rushed for 170 yards and two TDs.
Colt McCoy completed 217-of-318 passes for 2,570 yards and 29 TDs . Colt McCoy tied the UT record by completing 15 consecutive passes .
earned second-team All-Big 12 honors.
Colt McCoy tabbed the preseason Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year by The Sporting News.
Colt McCoy was named the Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year by the league’s coaches and the Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year by The Associated Press.
Colt McCoy honored as the Touchdown Club of Columbus’ National Freshman of the Year.
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Colt McCoy claimed Alamo Bowl Offensive MVP honors. tabbed the Darrell K Royal Most Valuable Offensive Player.
Colt McCoy ranked as the nation’s fourth-best QB entering 2007 and the preseason Big 12 Most Valuable Player by Lindy’s.
Colt McCoy gained valuable experience running the scout team while redshirting in 2005.
Colt McCoy was a first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection and a two-time member of UT’s Athletics Director’s Honor Roll.
Texas : QB Colt McCoy, who passed for more than 200 yards and ran for more than 100 in season-opening win over Florida Atlantic. Those five teams above have a lot in common, but one of the most obvious common denominators is they all have really good quarterbacks: Chase Daniel at Missouri; Sam Bradford at OU; Graham Harrell at Tech; Colt McCoy at Texas; and Todd Reesing at Kansas.
If you’ve checked out Jim Vertuno’s story about 10 wins not being enough for Colt McCoy and the Longhorns , you know that 10 wins is the same as saying 3 losses.
There will be a bunch of Longhorns - including Colt McCoy - who will be glad to see Vince Young again, so there might be a little pre-game focus problem.
An often-cited story relates to Colt’s birth: McCoy’s parents were from Texas but his father, Brad McCoy was working just across the Texas border in Hobbs, New Mexico.
One thing that’s in Colt McCoy’s favor going into the 2008 season is that the national spotlight isn’t shining so brightly on him.
Brown chose to play Matt McCoy in four separate game situations where Texas had a commanding lead. With Vince Young forgoing his senior year to enter the NFL, and with Matt Nordgren graduating, the position of starting quarterback for the defending National Champion Texas Longhorns fell to McCoy for the 2006 football season after he won the job over true-freshman Jevan Snead.
As a freshman, he was given a redshirt year so he did not play during the team’s 2005 national championship season. McCoy did not play in any games during the season, as coach Mack Brown elected to keep him on the bench so that 2005 did not count as one of his four years of eligibility.
Following wins over Rice, Iowa State, and Sam Houston State, McCoy got his first win over a ranked team, as well as his first come-from-behind victory, when he threw two touchdowns, and led the Longhorns to defeat Oklahoma 28-10 in the Red River Shootout on October 7, 2006. The two touchdowns by McCoy gave him 12 touchdown passes for the season, tied for third with Longhorn passer James Brown in the list of most touchdowns by a UT freshman.
On December 1, 2006, the Longhorns issued a statement confirming that back-up quarterback Jevan Snead had left the team and would transfer to an unspecified school; this meant there would be no scholarship quarterback ready to play in the Longhonrns’ bowl game if McCoy was not ready.
It was the worst home-field loss in Mack Brown’s time with Texas.
Boyd said that McCoy was expected to make a full recovery, but no timetable was set for McCoy to return to play. The injury to McCoy came one game-clock minute after an A&M player, #91 Kellen Heard had been evicted from the game for vicious blindside block on McCoy after he threw an interception, which was ruled excessive.
McCoy threw twotouchdown passes and two interceptions. On January 2, 2008 UT running back Jamaal Charles decided to forgo his senior season with Texas in favor of joining the NFL as a professional football player in the 2008 NFL Draft.
After just one season with Texas, McCoy received a lot of media attention, including appearing on some lists of the nation’s top players of 2007.
There was speculation that Snead might be the starter for the final regular season game, because it was unknown whether McCoy would return for the Longhorns season closer against arch-rival Texas A&M University on November 24, 2006.
On the day after Thanksgiving, McCoy was 17 of 32 with 1 interception, while be sacked 4 times in the 38-30 loss to Texas A&M. At the conclusion of the 2007 regular season, Mccoy had thrown for 21touchdowns and 18interceptions.
In June 2007, McCoy appeared on the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football alongside Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee and TCU defensive end Tommy Blake.
” McCoy hopes to face Texas A&M - Texas QB gets extra week to heal from pinched nerve “, Houston Chronicle.
On December 21, 2006, UT announced that McCoy was cleared to start in the Alamo Bowl for Texas on Saturday, December 30.
” McCoy tosses 2 TDS but Texas shaky in 21-13 win “, Austin American-Statesman, Cox Enterprises.
” McCoy suffers severe pinched nerve in neck - Longhorns quarterback spends three hours at hospital for testing “, Austin American-Statesman.
Mack Brown said after the game “I didn’t see it, but it sounded like 88,000 thought it was dirty.” McCoy was taken to Brackenridge Hospital where he spent more than three hours undergoing an evaluation that included an X-Ray, MRI, and a CAT scan.
In the second game, McCoy led the Longhorns to a 34″13 victory over #19-ranked TCU.
McCoy led the Longhorns, who were ranked numberfour in the pre-season Associated Press Poll and Coaches Poll, to a 21″13 victory over unranked Arkansas State in the season opener.
At the time Jim Ned was 8-0, but as McCoy missed the next two games due to the concussion, Jim Ned’s season unraveled.
During the November 11, 2006, game against Kansas State University, McCoy suffered a stinger shoulder injury while rushing for a touchdown against Kansas State.
The winner will be announced on December 6, 2007. In their 2007season preview magazine, CBS Sportsline.com listed McCoy as one of 12players on the “Heisman Watch”; saying “We were touting him for the Heisman midway through his freshman season until he was injured against Kansas State.
” Bye comes at the right time - Big 12 title still up for grabs despite Texas’ loss to Kansas State; McCoy says he’s ‘fine’ “, Austin American-Statesman.
McCoy went 19-32, 156 yards, one TD, and one INT while rushing four times for a total of eight yards.
McCoy has participated in a church youth group since 2002. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and playing golf.
McCoy and the Longhorns lost again the following week, in the 2007 Red River Shootout.
When the replay was shown in the stadium, the Longhorn fans erupted in boos before lapsing back into silence as McCoy lay on the ground writhing for ten minutes before being taken off the field on a cart. Through the first fivegames he threw nineinterceptions - twomore than he threw in the entire 2006season; he threw 18interceptions during the 2007season.
Rivals.com named McCoy one of the top-10 quarterbacks going into the 2007 season.
Older and stronger, McCoy has an awesome receiving corps to make a run at the hardware for real.” He is also one of the 35 quarterbacks placed on the 2007 Manning Award watch list.
On June 26, 2007, Maxwell Football Club president Ron Jaworski announced that McCoy had been named to the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award.
After suffering a concussion on a tackle of 215-pound Bangs running back Jacoby Jones, his father decided to not let him play defense anymore.
” McCoy, Texas taking hard hits “, The Daily Texan, Texas Student Publications.
Mack Brown said, “Colt was as good today as I’ve ever seen him.”
When living in Buffalo Gap, Texas, Colt attended and was very involved with the Oldham Lane Church of Christ.
Whoever sits atop the Big 12 QB statistics list at the end of the season will no doubt be a strong candidate for the Heisman. Colt McCoy - Texas Longhorns Colt McCoy - Colt McCoy Stats
