Arellano named Ray Guy Award candidate

PROVO, Utah - The Augusta Sports Council named BYU punter Scott Arellano a candidate for the 2014 Ray Guy Award.

Arellano is one of 80 candidates for this year's award.

The 6-foot-1 senior from Santa Ynez, California, has 2,108 punt yards this season. Against Middle Tennessee, he broke the BYU record for longest punt with an 81-yarder. Arellano has had four games with three punts of 50+ yards, one game with three punts of 60+ yards, 16 total punts of 50+ yards and 19 punts downed inside the 20.

The list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists Nov. 14. Following the semifinalists announcement, a national body of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sports information directors, coaches, media representatives and previous Ray Guy Award winners will vote for the top three finalists, who will be identified on Nov. 24. The voting body will then cast ballots to select the winner.

The presentation of the Ray Guy Award will be featured on The Home Depot College Football Awards live on Thursday, December 11 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN. The show, hosted by ESPN’s Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard will feature live presentation of nine player awards, along with the recipients of Disney’s Spirit Award, The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award, the NCFAA (National College Football Awards Association) Contributions to College Football Award, and student-athletes selected to the Walter Camp All-America Team.

2014 Ray Guy Award Candidates

JK Scott, Alabama

Drew Riggleman, Arizona

Matthew Haack, Arizona State

Sam Irwin-Hill, Arkansas

Luke Ferguson, Arkansas State

Alex Tardieu, Army

Spencer Roth, Baylor

Alex Howell, Boston College

Tyler Grassman, Buffalo

Scott Arellano, BYU

Cole Leininger, California

Ron Coluzzi, Central Michigan

Bradley Pinion, Clemson

Darragh O'Neill, Colorado

Hayden Hunt, Colorado State

Will Monday, Duke

Worth Gregory, East Carolina

Owen Dubiel, Eastern Michigan

Dalton Schomp, FAU

Kyle Christy, Florida

Garrett Swanson, Fresno State

Collin Barber, Georgia

Scott Harding, Hawai‘i

Austin Rehkow, Idaho

Justin DuVernois, Illinois

Colin Downing, Iowa State

Trevor Pardula, Kansas

Nick Walsh, Kansas State

Anthony Melchiori, Kent State

Landon Foster, Kentucky

Daniel Cadona, Louisiana

Jamie Keehn, LSU

Tyler Williams, Marshall

Will Hagerup, Michigan

Mike Sadler, Michigan State

Peter Mortell, Minnesota

Devon Bell, Mississippi State

Christian Brinser, Missouri

Wil Baumann, NC State

Sam Foltz, Nebraska

Thomas Hibbard, North Carolina

Tyler Wedel, Northern Illinois

Cameron Johnston, Ohio State

Jed Barnett, Oklahoma

Kip Smith, Oklahoma State

Jarrett Cervi, Old Dominion

Will Gleeson, Ole Miss

Keith Kostol, Oregon State

Ryan Winslow, Pittsburgh

Thomas Meadows, Purdue

James Farrimond, Rice

Joel Alesi, San Diego State

Tyler Hull, South Carolina

Tyler Sarrazin, Southern Miss

Ben Rhyne, Stanford

Riley Dixon, Syracuse

Ethan Perry, TCU

Matt Darr, Tennessee

William Russ, Texas

Drew Kaser, Texas A&M

Will Johnson, Texas State

Taylor Symmank, Texas Tech

Dalton Parks, Tulsa

Hunter Mullins, UAB

Caleb Houston, UCF

Justin Wain, UConn

Justin Manton, ULM

Logan Yunker, UNLV

Mattias Ciabatti, USF

Tom Hackett, Utah

Jaron Bentrude, Utah State

Mike Ruggles, UTEP

Alec Vozenilek, Virginia

A.J. Hughes, Virginia Tech

Alexander Kinal, Wake Forest

Korey Durkee, Washington

Nick O'Toole, West Virginia

J. Schroeder, Western Michigan

Drew Meyer, Wisconsin

Joseph Occhipinti, WKU