Pro Bowl History; AP MVP; AP AFL Player of the Year; UPI MVP; UPI AFL Player of the Year; PFWA MVP; Newspaper Ent. Assoc. MVP; Sporting News Player of the Year; Joe F. Carr Trophy (MVP) Bert Bell Award (Player of the Year) AAFC MVP; Super Bowl MVP; Walter Payton Man of the Year; NFLPA Alan Page Community Award; AP Offensive Player of the Year The Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award, or Super Bowl MVP, is presented annually to the most valuable player of the Super Bowl, the National Football League's (NFL) championship game. The winner is chosen by a panel of 16 football writers and broadcasters, and, since Super Bowl XXXV in 2001, fans voting electronically. The media panel's Super Bowl MVPs have come from colleges big and small, from the Division II ranks to powerhouses like Alabama. Here's a rundown of where each Super Bowl MVP played their college football. Some surprising schools on the list are represented by the 58 Super Bowl MVP winners. Whether you view that in the negative or positive light, it can be eye-opening. Perhaps that is due to the recency bias of Michigan being at the top. Some national powers on this list don't have a Super Bowl MVP that might surprise you such as Auburn, LSU, or Returning to Super Bowl II as NFL champs, the Pack dumped the Oakland Raiders 33-14. Starr threw for 202 yards, including a 62-yard TD strike to Boyd Dowler. He was named MVP of both games. Joe Namath (Super Bowl III) Tide QBs would be named MVP in each of the first three Super Bowls, thanks to Joe Willie Namath’s guaranteed victory. Alabama, of course, has had an impact on the biggest game on the American sports calendar, with the first three Super Bowl MVPs having played their college ball in Tuscaloosa. The University of Alabama has produced two Super Bowl MVPs: Joe Namath (Super Bowl III), and Bart Starr, who won the inaugural Super Bowl MVP award (Super Bowl I) and again won for Super Bowl II. Purdue University has produced two MVPs: Len Dawson (Super Bowl IV) and Drew Brees (Super Bowl XLIV). Over the course of 57 Super Bowls, a defensive player has won the MVP award only 10 times. Here's a list of every Super Bowl MVP. Alabama got in on the ground floor of Super Bowl history by providing the game’s first three MVPs -- Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback in the two AFL-NFL World Championship games now PFR Home Page > Super Bowl. Welcome · Your Account; Logout; Ad-Free Login; Create Account; MVP Stadium City State; Feb 9, 2025: LIX (59) Kansas City Chiefs Tyler Forness: (Editor's note: Forness picked the Chiefs to win in our predictions post) The Super Bowl MVP has gone to a player on the winning team in every instance but one: Super Bowl V when Dallas Cowboys LB Chuck Howley won the award in a 16-13 loss to the Baltimore Colts. This could be the second instance, as Saquon Barkley is the engine Starr was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the first two Super Bowls [2] and during his career earned four Pro Bowl selections. He won the league MVP (MVP) award in 1966. [ 3 ] He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Packers Hall of Fame in 1977. The full count of Super Bowl MVPs by college, now including Patrick Mahomes’ Texas Tech Michigan, mostly via one guy, still leads. By Jason Kirk and Alex Kirshner Feb 2, 2020, 10:46pm EST Alabama has had Super Bowl success at quarterback with the first three MVPs being Crimson Tide products, along with Super Bowl 11 winner Ken Stabler. This story is featured in our One Notable Number series , which spotlights the key numbers leading our coverage. Green Bay defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I on Jan. 15, 1967, and the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl II on Jan. 14, 1968, although the contests weren’t officially the However, a few universities do stand out. The University of Alabama, Purdue University, and University of Southern California (USC) each have produced three Super Bowl MVPs. - From the University of Alabama, Bart Starr, Joe Namath, and Julian Edelman were recognized as Super Bowl MVPs. - From Purdue University, Len Dawson, Bob Griese, and Drew Alabama and Purdue have produced most Super Bowl winning QBs starter and MVP of the first two Super Bowls at the end of the 1966 and 1967 seasons (though they weren’t called Super Bowls A two-time Super Bowl MVP, Eli Manning owns one of the greatest moments in football history, David Tyree’s “Helmet Catch”. Packers QB Bart Starr (Alabama) Bart Starr, the MVP of Super When it comes to producing Super Bowl MVPs, the University of Alabama, the University of Miami, and Purdue University share the top spot, having each produced 3 Super Bowl MVPs. For the University of Alabama, the Super Bowl MVPs are Bart Starr (Super Bowls I and II) and Joe Namath (Super Bowl III). Namath was the Super Bowl MVP, completing eight passes to George Sauer Jr. alone for 133 yards. The win made him the first quarterback to start and win a national championship game in college, a major professional league championship, and a Super Bowl. The Jets' win gave the AFL instant legitimacy even to skeptics.
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