UCF wide receiver Corey Gammage has been named to 2023 Biletnikoff Award Preseason Watch List, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club (TQC) Foundation, Inc., the Florida-based creator and sponsor of the prestigious Biletnikoff Award, announced on Monday.
The Biletnikoff Award annually recognizes college football’s most outstanding FBS receiver. Any player, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back, and running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes college football's outstanding receiver, not merely college football's outstanding wide receiver.
Gammage is in his first season with the Knights, after transferring into the program from Marshall. He led the Thundering Herd with 52 catches for 774 yards and six TDs. The Delray Beach, Florida, native surpassed 100 yards receiving in three games in 2022, headlined by a career-high 187 yards on eight catches against Coastal Carolina.
He was tabbed an honorable mention All-Sun Belt selection following the season.
For his career, Gammage played in 45 games at Marshall over four seasons and caught 178 passes, ninth most in program history, for 2,239 yards with 13 TDs. He paced the team in receiving in three consecutive seasons.
The semifinalists, finalists, and award recipient are selected by the highly distinguished Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a group of 650 prominent college football journalists, commentators, announcers, Biletnikoff Award winners, and other former receivers. Foundation trustees do not vote and have never voted. For a list of voters, please see BiletnikoffAward.com/voters.
Receivers are frequently added to the watch list as their season performances dictate. Actual, not potential, performance is the basis for inclusion on the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.
The 2023 Biletnikoff Award winner will be presented the Biletnikoff Award trophy by TQC Founding Trustee and Chairman Walter Manley II, Fred Biletnikoff, and the 1996 Heisman Trophy winner and national champion Danny Wuerffel, keynote speaker, at the black-tie Biletnikoff Award Banquet & Celebration at the Dunlap Champions Club, at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday, March 9, 2024. The banquet was hailed by 2014 keynote speaker Dick Vermeil, as well as by 2013 keynoter Larry Csonka, as "the best banquet in college sports."