Frank Harris scrambles upfield versus North Texas

Posted: 8/11/2023 11:00:00 AM NEW HAVEN, Conn. — UTSA senior quarterback Frank Harris has been selected for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award preseason list of players to watch, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced Friday. Harris is one of 45 players, including one of two from the American Athletic Conference along with Tulane's Michael Pratt, on this year's list for the nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.

The watch list includes 38 offensive players (20 quarterbacks, 11 running backs, five receivers/tight ends and two offensive lineman) along with seven from the defensive side of the ball. Harris, who also has been named to the Davey O'Brien Award and Maxwell Award watch lists, owns more than 30 school records and a 31-11 record as the starting QB as he enters his final campaign with the Roadrunners. The 2022 Conference USA Most Valuable Player and first-team all-conference performer completed 328 of 471 passes (69.

6%) for 4,063 yards and 32 TDs and a 160. 7 passing efficiency, all school records to help lead UTSA to an 11-3 record and a second straight league crown last fall. A finalist for the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award and a Davey O'Brien Award semifinalist a year ago, he logged seven 300-yard passing games, including a UTSA record 414 in the 45-30 win at Middle Tennessee, and he totaled 400-plus yards of offense three times, highlighted by a school record 423 in the same contest.

Harris added 602 rushing yards — the program standard for a QB — and nine scores on the ground. For his career, Harris has thrown for 9,356 yards and 74 touchdowns on 816-of-1210 passing to go with 1,822 rushing yards and 24 scores on 372 carries. The Schertz Clemens High School product owns UTSA's total offense record with 11,178 yards, which ranks fifth among active FBS quarterbacks, and his 42 career starts are the fourth-best total.

The 2022 Walter Camp Player of the Year Award watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in mid-November. The 2023 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 133 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on ESPN's College Football Awards Show in December. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's 57th annual national awards banquet in New Haven, Connecticut, in early 2024.

Appearing on the preseason watch list is not a requirement for a player to win the Walter Camp Award or be named to the All-America team. Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Under the direction of two-time conference coach of the year Jeff Traylor, the Roadrunners are coming off an 11-3 campaign that saw them capture their second straight Conference USA crown and play in a bowl game for the third year in a row. UTSA has been ranked in the top 25 in each of the last two seasons and boasts a combined 23 wins over that span, the fourth-best total among all FBS teams behind only Georgia (29), Michigan (25) and Alabama (24).

UTSA has been picked to finish second in the AAC Preseason Media Poll and will kick off its 13th season of play on Saturday, Sept. 2, against Houston. Kickoff is set for 6 p.

m. at TDECU Stadium and the game will be televised nationally on FS1. UTSA will face Texas State for the home opener at 2:30 p.

m. the following Saturday at the Alamodome. The Roadrunners will host Army at 6 p.

m. on Friday, Sept. 15, UAB on Oct.

14, East Carolina on Oct. 28, Rice on Nov. 11 and South Florida at 8 p.

m. on Friday, Nov. 17.

Season and single-game tickets are on sale now by calling 210-458-UTSA (8872) or visiting goUTSA. com/tickets. .

Staff Report
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Filed 08.13.2023

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