3. Sooners lead All-Americans

Dogs LB joins three Sooners as first-team All-America choices.

No. 2 Oklahoma will bring three All-Americans into the College Football Playoff. Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield and two teammates lead the AP’s All-America team. Oklahoma is the only school with more than two players on the first team, while Georgia has one: Roquan Smith.

No. 2 Oklahoma will bring three first-team All-Americans to its College Football Playoff semifinal against No. 3 Georgia — and Bulldogs linebacker Roquan Smith is also on the team.

Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield, offensive tackle Orlando Brown and tight end Mark Andrews made the Associated Press All-America team announced Monday, giving the Sooners more players on the first team than any other school.

The team dates to 1925 and was selected this season by a panel of 17 media members who vote on the Top 25 poll.

Four of the top five vote-getters for the Heisman Trophy made the first team, including the runaway winner, Mayfield.

Stanford’s Bryce Love, the Heisman runner-up, and San Diego State’s Rashaad Penny, the nation’s leading rusher and fifth-place finisher for the Heisman, were the first-team running backs. Penn State’s Saquon Barkley, who finished fourth in the Heisman voting, made the team as an all-purpose player.

Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, last year’s Heisman winner

and All-America quarterback, was selected to the second team.

The other three playoff teams each have one player on the first team, all on the defensive side.

For the Bulldogs, offensive tackle Isaiah Wynn made the second team behind firstteamer Smith, who last week was chosen as the SEC defensive player of the year and the Butkus Award winner as the nation’s top linebacker.

Smith will finish as the Bulldogs’ tackling leader for the second year in a row; he has 113, an average of 8.7 a game.

No. 1 Clemson placed defensive end Clelin Ferrell on the first team. Alabama

safety Minkah Fitzpatrick is the only player to make first-team All-America for the second straight season.

The Tigers face the fourthranked Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl semifinal Jan. 1.

Notre Dame (offensive linemen Mike McGlinchey and Quenton Nelson), Ohio State (center Billy Price and cornerback Denzel Ward), Iowa (linebacker Josey Jewell and cornerback Josh Jackson) and Texas (safety DeShon Elliott and punter Michael Dickson) each have two players on the first team.

Clemson had the most players selected to all three teams with six.

Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, linebacker Dorian O’Daniel and offensive tackle Mitch Hyatt made the second team. Defensive end Austin Bryant and guard Tyrone Crowder were third-team picks.

Wisconsin placed five players on the three teams, led by linebacker T.J. Edwards on the first team.

Running back Jonathan Taylor and tight Troy Fumagalli made the second team and offensive linemen David Edwards and Beau Benzschawel made the third team.

Oklahoma had four picks overall, with linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo making the second team.

CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM Georgia junior linebacker Roquan Smith previously won the Butkus Award and was voted the SEC defensive player of the year.