Senior center Mike Pouncey (Lakeland, Fla.) was named to the 2010 Rimington Trophy Watch List, as announced on Thursday. The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I-A College Football. Pouncey has appeared in 39 games with 32 starts and started all 14 games during the 2008 and 2009 seasons, including the Gators’ 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl victory, the 2008 SEC Championship Game victory and the 2008 FedEx BCS National Championship Game victory. Last season, Pouncey was named a 2009 AP Second-Team All-American, as well as an AP First-Team All-SEC selection. In 2009, Mike’s brother, Maurkice, became the first Gator to win the award after tallying 40 career starts over his three seasons, while also garnering recognition as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp, the FWAA, Sporting News and CBSSports.com. Maurkice was the 18th overall pick of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The award is named in honor of Dave Rimington, a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman. In all, there are 37 players on the Watch List. The ACC checks in with the most candidates, with six players being named. The SEC, Big-12 and PAC-10 are represented by five players each on the Watch List.
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