Another December means another round of “Alabama fans watching college football awards shows, waiting on their guy’s name to be called.” In the current iteration of Bama football, Crimson Tide players frequently show up wearing suits and ties, either at awards ceremonies or at the NFL Draft.

Here are the 10 most prestigious individual awards in Alabama football history:

  1. Heisman Trophy: Mark Ingram (2009)

The first, and still the best. Ingram’s Heisman – awarded in the closest vote in the history of the award –was also the first for an SEC running back since Bo Jackson beat out Chuck Long in 1985 (also a narrow vote).

It was a real moment for Alabama fans, who long contended that their program had no Heisman Trophy winners because Alabama isn’t about individual awards, but championships. And watching Ingram weep through his speech was emotional even for the most jaded fans.

Ingram finished the season with 1,648 rushing yards – an Alabama single-season record –and 1,992 all-purpose yards while scoring 20 touchdowns. He had nine 100-yard games, including a season-high and Bryant-Denny Stadium record 246 yards against No. 22 South Carolina on Homecoming.

  1. Heisman Trophy: Derrick Henry (2015)

It was near the tail end of a 2013 blowout of Arkansas in Tuscaloosa, and very few people could have been paying attention. Some big kid, playing in garbage time, suddenly took off for an 80-yard touchdown run, much to the dismay of Nick Saban, who was attempting to run out the clock.

Two years later, Henry walked across the stage at the Downtown Athletic Club to accept Alabama’s second Heisman, after a historic season in which he carried Alabama on his back to the verge of a national championship. His best work may have come in the final two games of the season – with a berth in the College Football Playoff in its grasp, Bama gave the ball to Henry 46 and 44 times at Auburn and against Florida in the SEC Championship. He’s averaging nearly 6 yards per rush, and has scored 23 touchdowns. And unlike Ingram, Henry isn’t much of a receiver –10 catches for 97 yards this year – so most of his yards come between the tackles.

3. William V. Campbell Award: Barrett Jones (2012)

The academic Heisman Trophy went to Jones, the guy who started three seasons at three different positions, gained notoriety for his faith – he went on a mission trip to Nicaragua – and got to give A.J. McCarron a two-handed shove in the national championship game, just for good measure.  

  1. Maxwell Award: AJ McCarron (2013)

There was a moment – and it didn’t last long, but it was a moment – where A.J. McCarron was in line to win the Heisman. It was right after he found Amari Cooper down the right sideline in the third quarter of The Greatest Iron Bowl Ever Played for a 99-yard touchdown, to take the lead. Had Alabama held on in that fourth quarter, most writers agree, he’d have won the trophy.

McCarron did finish the season 36-4 as a starting quarterback and with Crimson Tide career records for passing yards (9,019), touchdown passes (77), total offense (8,969), and completions (686). He was on pace to set the record for highest completion percentage (67.0), and set the Southeastern Conference record for best interception per attempt ratio.

He did take home with the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, and finished second in the Heisman voting to Jameis Winston.

  1. Biletnikoff Award: Amari Cooper (2014)

At a certain point during the 2014 Iron Bowl, a cousin of man who’s an Auburn fan texted me, “Seriously, don’t cover No. 9. He’s just a (expletive) decoy.”

His frustration was understandable. In 2014, Cooper was simply unguardable. His single-season statistics of 124 receptions for 1,727 yards and 16 touchdowns were all Crimson Tide records, as were his career numbers of 228 catches for 3,463 yards and 31 touchdowns.

Cooper also set the Alabama single-game record of 224 receiving yards twice, at Tennessee and vs. Auburn (the latter when he was wearing a brace to help support a bruised knee).

In the SEC Championship Game, he surpassed Vanderbilt’s Jordan Matthews for most receptions in a season in SEC history, and the most catches in the league title game with 12 (Reidel Anthony of Florida, 11 in 1996).

  1. Butkus Award: Derrick Thomas (1988)

The statistics were crazy good: 204 tackles, 74 tackles for loss, 52 sacks, 10 forced fumbles, two safeties and nine blocked kicks.

All you need to know is that Thomas was so good, he finished 10th in the 1988 Heisman voting.

  1. Disney Spirit Award (2011)

Honestly, there’s a big part of me that wants to rank this No. 1. If you watched the “Roll Tide/War Eagle” 30 for 30 on ESPN, you know about the tornadoes that ravaged Tuscaloosa most of central Alabama on April 27, 2011. The 2011 season meant a great deal to a lot of people in this state, with Carson Tinker as its poster boy. Tinker, by the way, accepted the honor on behalf of the program, as was deserved.

  1. Doak Walker Award: Trent Richardson (2011)

The best football player who didn’t win the Heisman in his final season at Bama (he finished third behind Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck), Richardson developed a penchant for running through tackles and never going out of bounds during a 2011 campaign that saw him average nearly 6 yards per carry and 12 yards per reception. He scored 24 total touchdowns.

That effort was good enough to carry Alabama to a national title that season, and a 21-0 whipping of LSU.

  1. Lombardi Award: Cornelius Bennett (1986)

Selected as the nation’s top lineman, two years before the Butkus Award was created. He was the first linebacker and first player from the Southeastern Conference to win the award.

Bennett also finished seventh in Heisman Trophy voting and was named the SEC player of the year. He also nearly killed Steve Beuerlein.

  1. Butkus Award: Rolando McClain (2009)

Prior to the Alabama’s 2009 SEC Championship Game rematch against Florida, my dad told my mom that the easiest way to figure out what Tim Tebow’s Gators were doing on offense was to “follow No. 25 (McClain).”

“Rolando will take you to the ball,” he said.

He remains one of the smartest football players I’ve ever seen, even if his off-field proclivities might suggest otherwise. He finished that season with 105 total tackles, 14.5 for loss and two interceptions. Oh, and they beat Tebow and won the national title. You know, typical stuff.