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BYU's Aulai Named Rimington Trophy Candidate
Aulai earned second-team All-Mountain West honors as a junior at BYU.
May 1, 2007 PROVO, Utah -- BYU center Sete Aulai has been selected as one of 46 players named to the 2007 Rimington Trophy official watch list. The Rimington Trophy is given annually to the most outstanding center in college football. A 6-foot-1, 297-pound senior from Carson, Calif., Aulai earned second-team All-Mountain West honors as a junior at BYU. He allowed just one sack during the regular season, and did not allow a single sack against league opponents. He was credited with 108 knock-downs and anchored an offensive line that helped produce the nation's fourth-ranked offense, averaging 465.5 yards of total offense per game. He provided pass protection for a unit that averaged over 323 yards of passing offense per game and had an efficiency rating of 167.08 -- the second best efficiency rating in the nation. His play proved critical in helping the Cougars establish a league-best 277 first downs and posting a 56.6 third-down conversion percentage to rank third in the country. The eight-year-old trophy is presented by Canon, Cornhusker Marriott, and Logitech. The award is hosted by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Esiason created his foundation in 1993 to support research and treatment of cystic fibrosis. Esiason and Dave Rimington were teammates on the Cincinnati Bengals from 1984-87. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All- America center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982 during which he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's premiere college interior lineman.
The winner will be honored at an awards banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska in January of 2008.
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