{"id":107805,"date":"2020-12-04T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=107805"},"modified":"2020-12-04T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:20:42","slug":"ole-miss-signal-caller-added-to-maxwell-award-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-signal-caller-added-to-maxwell-award-watch-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Signal Caller Added to Maxwell Award Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> sophomore quarterback Matt Corral was added to the watch list for the <strong>Maxwell Award<\/strong> Thursday, as announced by the <strong>Maxwell Football Club<\/strong>.<br>\u00a0<br>The Maxwell Award has been presented to the outstanding collegiate football player in America since 1937 and is named in honor of <strong>Robert W. &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Maxwell<\/strong>.\u00a0Corral joins teammate <strong>Elijah Moore<\/strong> on the prestigious watch list.<br>\u00a0<br>Corral currently ranks top 10 nationally in passing yards (2,744), passing TDs (24), completion percentage (.729), completions per game (23.3), passing efficiency (187.3) and points responsible for per game (20.8).<br>\u00a0<br>The <strong>Ventura, California<\/strong>, native has posted six 300-yard games of the season, the third-best single-season effort in school history. Corral, who has earned SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors three times this season, set a school record with 513 passing yards earlier this year.<br><br>Corral is fifth on Ole\u00a0Miss&#8217;\u00a0single-season list with 24 passing TDs, while sitting sixth on the career charts\u00a0with 32 scoring passes.\u00a0Corral is 10th all-time in career passing yards at Ole Miss with 4,335 yards.<br>\u00a0<br>Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced on December 6. The winner of the 2020 Maxwell Award will be announced as part of the <em>ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards Show<\/em>, which will be held virtually on January 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss sophomore quarterback Matt Corral was added to the watch list for the Maxwell Award Thursday, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":107661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4765,40,17633,12986,12987,7067,7116,700,17678,17635],"class_list":["post-107805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-california","tag-football","tag-matt-corral","tag-maxwell-award","tag-maxwell-football-club","tag-ole-miss","tag-quarterback","tag-rebels","tag-robert-w-tiny-maxwell-2","tag-ventura"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MattCorral.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}