DALLAS (FWAA) — Bowling Green’s Davon Ferguson is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Ferguson, a seventh-year senior, has overcome multiple season-ending injuries to become one of the best defenders for the Falcons, who posted their best record since 2015. “Some people get injuries, and they ultimately have...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Iowa State’s Daniel Jackson is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Jackson, a redshirt junior, has become a big contributor for the Cyclones after getting injured in a serious car accident in high school and after breaking his foot as a...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Washington’s Zion Tupuola-Fetui is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Tupuola-Fetui, a senior, made several crucial plays in leading the Huskies to a win Saturday at USC just days after his father passed away. “This week was really hard, but I knew...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Notre Dame’s Audric Estime' is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Estime', a junior, has become one of the nation’s top running backs after losing his mother to sickle cell anemia. “Before every game I get on my knee and I talk...
MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (orangebowl.org) – Former Penn State quarterback Chuck Burkhart, past Oklahoma defensive back Bud Hebert and former Arkansas running back Roland Sales have been announced as the 2023 inductees to the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame presented by AutoNation. The 2023 Hall of Fame class will join 133 others...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Vanderbilt’s De’Rickey Wright is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Wright, a senior, lost his mother in 2020 and has fought through both football and injury concerns to be on the brink of becoming the first person from his family to...
DALLAS (FWAA) — UCLA’s Laiatu Latu is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Latu, a senior, has recovered from neck surgery to become a dominant defensive force for the 25th-ranked Bruins. Latu, who spent the first three years of his career at Washington, suffered a...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Texas Tech’s Bryce Ramirez is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Ramirez, a senior linebacker, has recovered from a compound leg fracture suffered last year to play in all six games for the Red Raiders this season. “After I got injured, my...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Hawai’i’s Karsyn Pupunu is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Pupunu, a native of Lahaina, Maui, lost four family members in the August wildfire in Maui, which was the deadliest wildfire in the United States in more than a century. Pupunu lost...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Navy’s Xavier McDonald is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. McDonald, a senior, has overcome a challenging upbringing in St. Petersburg, Fla., to earn a Service Academy appointment. McDonald took care of four younger siblings while growing up, after both of his...
