Beth Maiman | NCAA.com | August 9, 2017 2017 college football awards watch lists Share College football season is approaching fast. And with a new season, that also means a new set of award watch lists to keep an eye out for. RELATED: When does college football season start? Sixteen different award watch lists were announced over a 10-day span in July, starting with the Bednarik and Maxwell Awards on July 10 and ending with the Walter Camp Award on July 21. Watch lists will be shortened throughout the season and this year's winners will be announced on Dec. 7 at the annual Home Depot College Football Awards, hosted by the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. Here is the full list of 2017 preseason watch lists, as they were announced: AWARD WATCH LISTS: Bednarik | Maxwell | Mackey | Rimington | Lou Groza | Ray Guy | Nagurski | Outland | Thorpe | Butkus | Hornung | Biletnikoff | Wuerffel | O'Brien | Doak Walker | Walter Camp Click here to check out the 2016 winners. Every automatic bid to the 2020-21 FCS football playoffs Ten of the 16 teams in the 2020-21 FCS football championship will be determined by automatic qualification via conference championship. Here are all the automatic bids before the bracket is revealed on Sunday, April 18. READ MORE DII Report: A new college baseball Power 10 rankings while titans clash on the football field West Texas A&M debuts in our DII college baseball rankings. Tusculum wins its first SAC DII football title in over a decade. Check out college baseball and spring football action in this week's DII Report. READ MORE Division I Football Committee announces championship host sites The NCAA Division I Football Championship committee announced today 14 predetermined preliminary round sites for this year’s Division I Football Championship. READ MORE