FWAA 2026 Season News

Brett Ciancia, the founder and owner of Pick Six Previews, is the seventh winner of the  Edward Aschoff Rising Star Award, which is presented annually by the Football Writers Association of America. The award is named after Edward Aschoff, the beloved ESPN college football reporter who died on Christmas Eve in 2019 on his 34th birthday from previously undetected Stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in his lungs.

Tony Casillas received the news a few weeks ago that he had been named the winner of the 2026 Nagurski Legends Award. He was overwhelmed when he opened his mail and read the letter from the Charlotte Touchdown Club and the FWAA that he had been selected as the recipient, more than four decades after being named an FWAA All-American with the Sooners in 1984 and '85.