Two Oklahoma football players have been named to the CBS Sports 2020 Preseason All-America Team.
Center Creed Humphrey, a redshirt junior, was a first-team honoree, and redshirt sophomore placekicker Gabe Brkic, was a second-team CBS Preseason All-American selection on special teams.
Players named to the 2020 Preseason All-America list, jointly conducted by representatives of CBS Sports and 247 Sports, were only from teams whose intention it is to play football in the fall
This is Humphrey’s third Preseason All-America selection for 2020. He was also a first-team selection on the Walter Camp Preseason All-America Team as well as as a Sporting News Preseason All-American.
Humphrey anchors an Oklahoma offensive line that was named the best in college football in 2018 (winner of the Joe Moore Award) and is a strong national candidate to do so again in 2020, with all five starters returning.
The native Oklahoman, from Shawnee, located about 40 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, recorded 93 knockdowns last season and did not allow a quarterback sack in 799 plays. Humphrey was voted Big 12 Co-Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2019 and was a finalist for the Rimington Trophy, awarded annually to the best center in college football.
Brkic was named to the CBS Sports postseason All-America First Team last season following a 2019 season in which he was a perfect 17 for 17 in field goal attempts and successful in all 53 of his extra-point tries. Interestingly, he did not win the starting job to begin the season. He was second on the depth chart to Calum Sutherland chart to begin the 2019 season, but when Sutherland was arrested for public intoxication after just three game, Brkic took over as the Sooner placekicker.
The SEC led all conferences with 26 selections to the two teams and 12 first-team honorees. The Big 12 had 11 overall selections and six named to the first team.