Zak Hill Named Broyles Award Nominee
11/7/2018 1:47:00 PM | Football
BOISE, Idaho - Boise State offensive coordinator Zak Hill has been named a nominee for the 2018 Broyles Award, given annually to college football's top assistant coach.
The list of nominees will be narrowed down to 15 semi-finalists and five finalists and an overall winner. Those finalists will be invited to travel to Little Rock, Ark. where the 2018 Broyles Award winner will be announced on Tuesday, December 4, at the Marriott Hotel.
Hill, in his third season at Boise State, and second as the sole offensive coordinator, has overseen one of the country's top offenses in 2018, as the Broncos rank 20th in total offense at 468.7 yards gained per game, and 21st in scoring offense at 38.0 points per game. The Boise State offense has been particularly clutch on third downs, converting at a 55.7-percent rate which ranks second in the country behind only Alabama. That conversion rate has helped the Broncos to 218 first downs this season, a figure which ranks 25th in the FBS.
Hill's work with Boise State quarterback Brett Rypien and the team's deep wide receiver corps has led the prolific Bronco air attack to a big year, ranking 10th in the nation through the games of Nov. 3 at 318.9 yards per game. Rypien, under Hill's tutelage, has posted six 300-yard passing games this season and currently ranks in the national top 20 (through Nov. 3) in completions per game (24.7, seventh), passing yards (2,779, sixth), passing yards per game (308.8, ninth), passing touchdowns (24, eighth), passing efficiency (159.3, 14th), and completion percentage (67.7, 14th).
Rypien, over the last two weeks, has also been named a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy, to the Top 15 of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, and to the midseason watch list of the CFPA Performer of the Year Trophy.
He's had no shortage of playmaking targets to choose from in 2018, as five Bronco receivers have caught at least two touchdown passes, led by eight from redshirt senior A.J. Richardson, who ranks 14th in the country and second in the Mountain West. Hill's offense has so far produced three Bronco receivers (Richardson, Sean Modster, John Hightower) with at least 400 receiving yards, with a fourth, CT Thomas, just three yards off that mark. Should that quartet stay on their current paces, the Bronco passing attack could end up with four different receivers hitting the 500-yard mark for the first time since 2003.
Boise State (7-2, 4-1 MW) hosts No. 16/17 Fresno State (8-1, 5-0 MW) this Friday at Albertsons Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8:15 p.m. on ESPN2.
The list of nominees will be narrowed down to 15 semi-finalists and five finalists and an overall winner. Those finalists will be invited to travel to Little Rock, Ark. where the 2018 Broyles Award winner will be announced on Tuesday, December 4, at the Marriott Hotel.
Hill, in his third season at Boise State, and second as the sole offensive coordinator, has overseen one of the country's top offenses in 2018, as the Broncos rank 20th in total offense at 468.7 yards gained per game, and 21st in scoring offense at 38.0 points per game. The Boise State offense has been particularly clutch on third downs, converting at a 55.7-percent rate which ranks second in the country behind only Alabama. That conversion rate has helped the Broncos to 218 first downs this season, a figure which ranks 25th in the FBS.
Hill's work with Boise State quarterback Brett Rypien and the team's deep wide receiver corps has led the prolific Bronco air attack to a big year, ranking 10th in the nation through the games of Nov. 3 at 318.9 yards per game. Rypien, under Hill's tutelage, has posted six 300-yard passing games this season and currently ranks in the national top 20 (through Nov. 3) in completions per game (24.7, seventh), passing yards (2,779, sixth), passing yards per game (308.8, ninth), passing touchdowns (24, eighth), passing efficiency (159.3, 14th), and completion percentage (67.7, 14th).
Rypien, over the last two weeks, has also been named a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy, to the Top 15 of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, and to the midseason watch list of the CFPA Performer of the Year Trophy.
He's had no shortage of playmaking targets to choose from in 2018, as five Bronco receivers have caught at least two touchdown passes, led by eight from redshirt senior A.J. Richardson, who ranks 14th in the country and second in the Mountain West. Hill's offense has so far produced three Bronco receivers (Richardson, Sean Modster, John Hightower) with at least 400 receiving yards, with a fourth, CT Thomas, just three yards off that mark. Should that quartet stay on their current paces, the Bronco passing attack could end up with four different receivers hitting the 500-yard mark for the first time since 2003.
Boise State (7-2, 4-1 MW) hosts No. 16/17 Fresno State (8-1, 5-0 MW) this Friday at Albertsons Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8:15 p.m. on ESPN2.
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