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Sandell Named to Walter Camp All-America Second Team
December 12, 2025 | Football
NORMAN — University of Oklahoma redshirt junior kicker Tate Sandell was announced as a second-team All-American by the Walter Camp Foundation on Friday evening during The Home Depot College Football Awards Show on ESPN.
Sandell was announced during the show as the winner of the 2025 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award, which is given annually to the nation's top collegiate placekicker in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.
The SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and All-SEC First Team selection by the league's coaches and media, Sandell is 23 of 24 on field goal tries this season and has made each of his last 23, setting a school and single-season SEC record. He is 7 for 7 on field goals of 50-plus yards (only one other player has made as many as five) and 10 for 10 on field goals of 45-plus yards. His four makes of 55-plus yards are a school career record and the most nationally this season (the next most this year is two). His 96% field goal rate leads the SEC and ranks second nationally, and he has made all 32 of his PAT attempts this season. He was a three-time SEC Special Teams Player of the Week.
The Port Neches, Texas, product is one of just two kickers nationally since at least 1995 to make at least seven field goals of 50-plus yards without a miss. He has made a school-career-record four field goals of 55-plus yards and is one of two FBS kickers in at least the last 30 years with four makes of 55-plus yards in a season (the only one to do it in a five-game stretch).
Sandell has made a nation-leading and OU-single-season-record 15 field goals of 40-plus yards (the previous program record was nine). He tied a school-single-game record at Tennessee with his four field goals (55, 51, 40, 55 yards) and tied the Neyland Stadium record for longest field goal (55 yards; twice). He became the first FBS kicker since 2021 to make three 50-plus-yard field goals in a game (tied the FBS record) and the first FBS kicker since 2011 to make two 55-plus-yard field goals in a road game.
Sandell also leads the country with his average-make distance of 41.8 yards (min. 15 conversions).
In his first year at Oklahoma after transferring from UTSA this past summer, Sandell has scored 101 of the team's 317 points (32%) this season. He has made at least one field goal in each of the last 11 games and has made at least three field goals in four of the last six contests. He was responsible for 26 of OU's 56 points (46%) in November road wins over Tennessee and Alabama, and for 36 of the Sooners' 90 points over their four November victories.
The No. 8 Sooners (10-2, 6-2 SEC) will host No. 9 Alabama (10-3, 7-1 SEC) in the College Football Playoff First Round on Friday, Dec. 19, at Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. CT on ABC and ESPN.
Sandell was announced during the show as the winner of the 2025 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award, which is given annually to the nation's top collegiate placekicker in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.
The SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and All-SEC First Team selection by the league's coaches and media, Sandell is 23 of 24 on field goal tries this season and has made each of his last 23, setting a school and single-season SEC record. He is 7 for 7 on field goals of 50-plus yards (only one other player has made as many as five) and 10 for 10 on field goals of 45-plus yards. His four makes of 55-plus yards are a school career record and the most nationally this season (the next most this year is two). His 96% field goal rate leads the SEC and ranks second nationally, and he has made all 32 of his PAT attempts this season. He was a three-time SEC Special Teams Player of the Week.
The Port Neches, Texas, product is one of just two kickers nationally since at least 1995 to make at least seven field goals of 50-plus yards without a miss. He has made a school-career-record four field goals of 55-plus yards and is one of two FBS kickers in at least the last 30 years with four makes of 55-plus yards in a season (the only one to do it in a five-game stretch).
Sandell has made a nation-leading and OU-single-season-record 15 field goals of 40-plus yards (the previous program record was nine). He tied a school-single-game record at Tennessee with his four field goals (55, 51, 40, 55 yards) and tied the Neyland Stadium record for longest field goal (55 yards; twice). He became the first FBS kicker since 2021 to make three 50-plus-yard field goals in a game (tied the FBS record) and the first FBS kicker since 2011 to make two 55-plus-yard field goals in a road game.
Sandell also leads the country with his average-make distance of 41.8 yards (min. 15 conversions).
In his first year at Oklahoma after transferring from UTSA this past summer, Sandell has scored 101 of the team's 317 points (32%) this season. He has made at least one field goal in each of the last 11 games and has made at least three field goals in four of the last six contests. He was responsible for 26 of OU's 56 points (46%) in November road wins over Tennessee and Alabama, and for 36 of the Sooners' 90 points over their four November victories.
The No. 8 Sooners (10-2, 6-2 SEC) will host No. 9 Alabama (10-3, 7-1 SEC) in the College Football Playoff First Round on Friday, Dec. 19, at Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. CT on ABC and ESPN.
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