WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Cal senior Matt Anderson was one of 30 players selected Wednesday to the watch list for the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award Watch List, as announced by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. Anderson was a national semifinalist for the honor in 2016.

Anderson has played in 26 career games and is Cal's active career leader in scoring with 221 points while ranking 10th on the school's all-time list and within 67 points of all-time leader Doug Brien's 288 points. Anderson has made 40-of-47 (85.1%) field goal attempts as well as 101-of-103 (98.1%) extra-point tries with the field goals 16 shy of Brien's career mark of 56, the extra points 57 short of Tom Schneider's school record of 158 and the extra-point attempts 58 shy of Schneider's school-record 161. Anderson had a banner season in his second campaign as Cal's staring placekicker as a 2016 junior when he earned honorable mention All-Pac-12 honors in addition to being a Groza semifinalist. Anderson established Cal's modern-era single-season record for points as a junior with 117 to rank second all-time and equaled the school's all-time single-season mark for field goals made (22) while making all 51 of his PATs. Anderson also made the first five field goals of his junior season to extend his school-record streak of consecutive field goals made to 17 including the final 12 of his 2015 sophomore campaign.

In addition, Anderson was a first-team Pac-12 All-Academic choice as a sophomore before earning second-team honors as well as CoSIDA Academic All-District® recognition as a junior. He also earned the Golden Bear Achievement Award from the Athletic Study Center at the Student-Athlete Academic Honors Luncheon for being the Cal football player with the highest cumulative GPA each of his first three seasons at Cal from 2013-15.

The 20 semifinalists for the 2017 Lou Groza Award will be selected on Thursday, November 2, while three finalists will be named by Tuesday, November 21 and recognized during a celebration in Palm Beach County that culminates with a gala awards banquet on Monday, December 4. The winner of the Lou Groza Award will be announced live at the Home Depot College Football Awards Red Carpet Show televised by ESPNU on December 7, 2017.

The award is named for the Pro Football Hall of Famer Lou "The Toe" Groza, who played for 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns. Groza won four NFL Championships and was named the NFL Player of the Year in 1954.

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The Lou Groza Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA) which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 23 awards boast over 745 years of tradition-selected excellence. The members of the NCFAA are unveiling their preseason watch lists over a 12-day period this month from July 10-21. Seventeen of the association's 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA has spearheaded a coordinated effort to promote each award's preseason candidates.