A dominating nationally televised effort on Thursday night earned Ray Graham a national offensive player of the week honor.
University of Pittsburgh junior running back Ray Graham has been named the Walter Camp Football Foundation’s National Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Panthers’ 44-17 victory over USF this past Thursday.
Graham (Elizabeth, N.J./Elizabeth) rushed for 226 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries (8.7 avg.) against previously unbeaten USF. He added four receptions for 42 yards.
The Walter Camp National Players of the Week are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
A cool honor. I would assume that Graham will also be given his second Big East offensive player of the week honor tomorrow. The only competition is WVU RB Dustin Garrison who ran for 291 yards and 2 TDs on 32 carries, but it came against Bowling Green.
Can I get that Big East office paranoia out there now by wondering if the Providence offices would bypass Graham in favor of Garrison out of petulance towards Pitt? Too soon?
Game ball given to Shlieper though. 2 backup guards played practically the entire game. Tampa Bay newspaper stressed how Pitt lines were just way too physical, and the line seemed worn down by 2nd perioed.
Gateway 82 Norwin 0
I think Gateway scored like 68 points in the 1rst half and then yanked their 1rst string. Good thing it might have been like 120 – 0.
I’m really not in favor of running up scores in high school when teams are clearly over matched.
We get this thing in high gear, I’d like them to schedule Ohio State for a couple years. Same with State Pen,… wait we do have them in a couple years. lol
Awesome accolade for RG. I think I already saw it somewhere that RG will get BE Player of the Week as well, can’t recall where I saw it now.
Hail to Pitt!
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This leads into the fact that USF ran up some big scores against lesser opponents the past 2 weeks while Pitt played 2 very physical teams (Iowa & ND) .. guess who was better prepared? After ND & Iowa, USF must have felt like playing jr college team for Pitt. USF was punched in the mouth and different respond.
Aside from winning this game, Pitt needs to show improvement in our passing game if we have any chance of competing with WVU for the BE crown. The tendency will be to ride Ray all game. I hope Graham will focus on the passing game this week and come out a guns ablazing (if that’s possible for Tiny).
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