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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State graduate senior Bryce Baringer has been named one of three finalists for the Ray Guy Award, the Augusta Sports Council announced on Tuesday. The award has been presented to the nation’s best collegiate punter since 2000.
The winner of the 2022 Ray Guy Award will be announced on The Home Depot College Football Awards show on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. on ESPN. Cincinnati’s Mason Fletcher and Rutgers’ Adam Korsak are the two other finalists.
Earlier on Tuesday, Baringer became the first Spartan to win the Eddleman-Fields Big Ten Punter of the Year. He was also named first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches to become the first Spartan punter to earn first-team all-league honors since the late Mike Sadler (2012 and 2013).
Baringer leads the FBS in punting with a 49.0-yard average, which is currently an MSU single-season record and the second-best average in Big Ten history. Michigan State also ranks No. 1 in the FBS in net punting (45.5-yard average) as Baringer has only four touchbacks this season while placing 22 of his 50 punts (44 percent) inside the 20, including eight inside the 10. The sixth-year graduate senior also has a Big Ten-best 24 punts of 50-plus yards (48 percent), including 10 of 60-plus yards.
A two-time Ray Guy Award National Punter of the Week (vs. Ohio State and Illinois), Baringer was named a first-team midseason Associated Press All-American and he has made five appearances on the “Ray’s 8” weekly honor roll (vs. Western Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Rutgers).
Baringer’s career punting average of 46.0 yards per punt (161 punts for 7,406 yards) is…
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