Offensive Player of the Week:
Sawyer Robertson, QB, Baylor and Brendan Sorsby, QB, Cincinnati

Defensive Player of the Week:
Prince Dorbah, DL, Arizona State and Sione Fotu, LB, Houston

Special Teams Player of the Week:
Jesus Gomez, K, Arizona State and Stephen Rusnak, K, Cincinnati

Freshman of the Week:
Bear Bachmeier, QB, BYU

Offensive Line of the Week:
Cincinnati

Defensive Line of the Week:
Arizona State

IRVING, Texas – The Big 12 Conference announced its football award winners for Week Five, which included four players winning for the second time this season. The quarterback tandem of Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson and Cincinnati’s Brendan Sorsby (offensive) were honored as well as Arizona State’s Prince Dorbah and Houston’s Sione Fotu (defensive). Place kickers Jesus Gomez from ASU and Stephen Rusnak from UC earned awards (special team) as BYU’s Bear Bachmeier was named Freshman of the Week for a second time this season. The offensive line and defensive line awards were claimed by Cincinnati and Arizona State, respectively.

Robertson ranked in the top three nationally for the week with 393 passing yards and four touchdown passes in Baylor’s win in Stillwater. He connected with four different Bears in the endzone, giving the program its first game in a decade of four different receivers catching a touchdown. His performance also marked his fifth-straight game with at least three passing touchdowns, the longest streak by a Big 12 quarterback since Kyler Murray in 2018.

Earning a second weekly honor in three weeks, Sorsby threw for 388 yards and a pair of scores in addition to 52 yards on the ground in Cincinnati’s 37-34 win at Kansas in its Big 12 opener. His 440 yards of total offense were the second most by an FBS player in Week Five. Sorsby completed 18 passes for first downs on Saturday, which were the most by a Big 12 player this season. With 388 yards through the air, the Bearcat QB also tallied the second-highest passing day of his career in his 27^th start.

Dorbah gave Arizona State’s defense its top performance in the 27-24 win versus then-No. 24 TCU with four tackles for a loss, three sacks and forced a strip fumble of TCU quarterback Josh Hoover in the final two minutes. He became the first Big 12 player with four tackles for a loss in a Conference game since K-State’s Felix Anudike-Uzomah in 2021. Dorbah was a big contributor in ASU's 13 tackles for loss as a team, its most in a single game since 2018. 

With a career-high 15 tackles in Friday’s victory at Oregon State, Fotu posted the most tackles in a game by a Houston linebacker since Austin Robinson in 2018. The junior from Salt Lake City was a catalyst of a defensive performance that held the Beavers to a 38% conversion rate on third and fourth downs. Fotu was also one of four Power Four players to tally 15 or more tackles last week.

Gomez picked up Big 12 honors for the second consecutive week with his pair of field goals and three extra points in ASU’s win versus then-No. 24 TCU. The senior nailed a game-winning field goal from 23 yards out with 1:14 remaining after making a 26-yarder in the third quarter. Gomez becomes just the fifth FBS player since 2015 to make game-winning field goals in back-to-back games and the first Big 12 player since Oklahoma State's Ben Grogan in 2015.

Posting a perfect day 7-of-7 kicking in UC’s win at Kansas on Saturday, Rusnak made field goals from 24, 29 and 43 yards out. He has made all six of his field goal attempts this season as well as all 18 extra points. Rusnak is the only kicker in FBS who has not missed a field goal attempt since the beginning of the 2024 season, posting a perfect 17-of-17 mark.

Winning Big 12 Freshman of the Week for a second time in a month, BYU’s Bachmeier was efficient in a 24-21 victory at Colorado. He completed 70.4% of his 27 pass attempts for 179 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 98 yards in Boulder. Bachmeier's 98 yards on the ground are the second most in a single game by a BYU freshman QB, only behind Taysom Hill versus Hawaii in 2012. The Murrieta, California native is one of 12 FBS starting quarterbacks without an interception thrown this season.

Cincinnati’s offensive line helped pave the way to 603 yards of total offense in the Bearcats’ 37-34 win at Kansas, which marked the third-most yards of offense in FBS for the week. The unit gave up one sack, its first of the season, as quarterback Brendan Sorsby threw for 388 yards and two touchdowns. Sorsby, alongside running backs Evan Pryor and Tawee Walker, rushed for 215 yards on the ground and a pair of touchdowns in the victory.

With a defense that tallied six sacks and 13 tackles for a loss, the Arizona State defensive line was a key contributor to the Sun Devils’ 27-24 win over then-No. 24 TCU. Five of its six sacks were recorded by defensive linemen, as ASU also held the Horned Frogs to just 10 yards rushing for the game, nearly 175 yards below their average entering the week. Friday marked the fewest yards allowed on the ground by the Sun Devils’ defense since 2018.