Over the past 20 seasons, just one FBS participant has recorded 5 sacks in a sport towards a ranked crew — Texas Longhorns junior edge Colin Simmons in a big-time efficiency towards the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday.
The 20-17 win marked the eighth time within the final 9 video games that Simmons has recorded a sack. The five-sack effort in Knoxville tied this system file set by Shone Dronett towards Texas Tech in 1990.
Simmons hasn’t simply been a prolific sack artist for the Longhorns — he’s confirmed up in large video games, recording 14.5 profession sacks towards ranked opponents, together with a minimum of one in seven straight video games.
The entire stats for Simmons have been eight tackles (six solo), 5 sacks, one quarterback hurry, and one pressured fumble. Professional Soccer Focus credited Simmons with 10 pressures, six sacks, and eight defensive stops.
Spectacular, historic stuff for the 6’3, 246-pounder. Absolutely adequate to earn some SEC weekly recognition, proper? Proper?
Apparently not.
Not solely did Simmons miss out on the d to Georgia linebacker Chris Cole, Simmons was additionally snubbed for n, which went to Missouri edge Daeden Hopkins, who had 4 tackles and three.5 sacks within the crew’s 31-24 loss to Mississippi State.