College Football Week 14: Top performers of the week
By Brad Weiss
Week 14 of the college football season was filled with conference championships, as teams made their final case for inclusion in the College Football Playoff.
The college football regular season finished up this past weekend, as some of the major conferences in America had their championship games. Most of the championship games were instant classics, including an incredible Big Ten Championship. While Alabama destroyed Florida in a boring SEC title game, the ACC was decided by one touchdown, and the state of Oklahoma was treated to an Oklahoma-Oklahoma State Big 12 finale.
Here are our top-5 individual performances from last weekend’s games.
The 2016 college football season has been a good one for Carlos Henderson, who has teamed with fellow wideout Trent Taylor to form the best wide receiver tandem in Conference USA. Henderson finished off the Bulldogs’ regular season with a beast of an effort this past weekend, racking up over 200 yards in a loss to Western Kentucky in the conference title game. For Henderson, it was the third time he went over 200 yards in a game this season, as he continues to develop into one of the better receivers in the conference.
While the Bulldogs fell in the conference title game, they will move onto a bowl game this season. Henderson and company will take on No. 25 Navy in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, in a game that will feature a couple of high-powered offenses. Henderson has scored a touchdown in eight games this season, and will finish the year with 17 overall.
His big game came against UMass a couple of weeks back, when he caught 12 balls for an amazing 326 yards and five touchdowns. An honorable mention all-conference player last season, Henderson has had a couple of incredible games this season, including a four-touchdown effort against North Texas three weeks ago. He has racked up over 1,400 yards receiving this season, and should be an all-conference selection in his junior season.