AUGUSTA, Ga. – Ole Miss football senior punter Fraser Masin has been named a semfinalist for the Ray Guy Award today, the Augusta Sports Council said this morning.
Masin is among ten pupils who have reached the semifinal stage of the Ray Guy Award – the annual college football award granted to the best punter. The overall statistics and contribution to the team were used by the Ray Guy Award committee to make its judgment. Special focus was made on net punting average, net punting average, percent of punts downed or kicked out-of-bounds inside the opponents twenty-yard line and the percentage of punts which are not returned. In this case, an individual eligible for the cash reward must be a team leader, exercise self-discipline besides contributing to the success of a team.
Masin has been very good for Rebels in 2024 averaging 46.9 yard on 24 punts, ten of which have traveled fifty yards or more and eleven have been downed inside twenty – yard line and that have in fact propelled Ole Miss to the FBS sixth best net punting average of 44.4 in this season. Masin has also punted two balls that have traveled 60-yards plus this season – 64 yards against Oklahoma and the other in Ole Miss’s record-tied 28-10 defeat of the #2 Georgia team tied his career-long.
Punting, his numbers of 46.9 yards per punt attempt this season would place him third all-time for a single season at Ole Miss and 43.3 yards per punt for his career ranks him seventh on the Rebels’ all-time list.
An FBS faculty athletics representative group, national media and former Ray Guy Award winners will select the three award finalists to be named on Tues., Nov. 26. The voting body will then vote again to designate a winner of the Ray Guy Award. The winner shall be declared alive on Thurs., Dec. 12 in the Home Depot College Football Awards, ESP.
2024 Ray Guy Award Semifinalists
- Alex Mastromanno, Florida State
- Andrew Stokes, South Florida
- Brett Thorson, Georgia
- Eddie Czaplicki, USC
- Fraser Masin, Ole Miss
- James Burnip, Alabama
- Jeremy Crawshaw, Florida
- John Henderson, Bowling Green
- Kai Kroeger, South Carolina
- Tyler White, Texas A&M
