The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Football’s Auburn, Majors named to Academic All-America First Team
01.28.2025 | Football
For the second-straight year, Bert Auburn and Jake Majors were named CSC Academic All-Americans.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Football junior kicker Bert Auburn and senior center Jake Majors were named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America First Team, the CSC announced Tuesday. It's the second-consecutive year the duo has been selected to the Academic All-America team after earning Second-Team distinguishment in 2023.
With the selection of Auburn and Majors, Texas has garnered five Academic All-American accolades over the last three years, with the duo joining EDGE Ovie Oghoufo, who earned second-team honors in 2022. It's the first time Texas has had two First-Team Academic All-America selections in the same year since having two in 2009 and marks just the fourth time it has happened in program history (1972, 2007, 2009, 2024).
A native of Flower Mound, Texas, Auburn has appeared in 43 career games on the Forty Acres. Playing in 15 games during the 2024 season, Auburn connected on 16-of-25 (64 percent) field goal attempts with a long of 49 yards. Auburn also converted on all 64 point-after attempts. Auburn has made a program-record 66 career field goals and also holds the program-record in consecutive PATs made (178). He entered the 2024 campaign on the preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award while earning preseason First-Team All-SEC. Auburn is pursuing his Bachelor's in Finance and holds an undergraduate GPA of 3.57.
A Joe Moore Award and Campbell Trophy finalist in 2024, Majors started a program-record 57 career games over a four-year span. Majors completed his Bachelor's in Business Management with a 3.64 cumulative GPA in May 2023. He was named the Outland Trophy's National Player of the Week on Sept. 9 following Texas' 31-12 road win at No. 10/9 Michigan. Majors also earned SEC Co-Offensive Lineman of the Week honors following UT's win at Michigan. Prior to the 2024 season, Majors was tabbed to the Rimington Trophy watch list, which is awarded annually to the nation's top center. He anchored a Texas offensive line that protected QB Quinn Ewers – a second-team All-SEC performer and finalist for the Manning Award who completed 293-of-445 passes (65.8 percent) for 3,472 yards and 31 touchdowns while averaging 248.0 yards per contest in 14 starts this season. Ewers finished sixth in the FBS in passing touchdowns (31), 14th in passing yards (3,472), 14th in points responsible for (202), 25th in passing efficiency (149), 26th in passing yards per game (248.0), 26th in completion percentage (65.8 percent), and 27th in completions per game (20.93). Ewers, who has completed his collegiate career after declaring for the NFL Draft, closed his time as a Longhorn on a 27-game passing touchdown streak – the longest active streak by an FBS quarterback and the second-longest streak in program history behind Colt McCoy's program-record 29 games. The Southlake, Texas, product finished third in the program's record book in both passing touchdowns (68) and passing yards (9,128), and second in most 300-yard passing games in a career (11). The Texas offense finished second in the FBS in first down offense (354), 12th in team passing efficiency (154.46), 14th (278.8 ypg) and 21st in total offense (437.5 ypg).
Auburn and Majors are the 26th and 27th Longhorns to be named to the Academic first or second team and bring Texas' total to 38 Academic All-America honors in program history.
