The Pac-12 is well-represeted on the list of semifinalists for the Thorpe and Butkus Awards, given annually to the nation's best defensive back and linebacker.

Three Pac-12 players are among 15 semifinalists for the Thorpe Award: Washington State safety Deone Bucannon, Oregon CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Oregon State CB Steven Nelson.

Four Pac-12 linebackers are among the 12 semifinalists for the Butkus Award: UCLA's Anthony Barr, California's Khairi Fortt, Utah's Trevor Reilly and Stanford's Shayne Skov.

Here are the complete lists:

Thorpe Award semifinalists

• C.J. Barnett, Ohio State

• Deone Bucannon, Washington State

• Landon Collins, Alabama

• Aaron Colvin, Oklahoma

• Darqueze Dennard, Michigan State

• Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Oregon

• Kyle Fuller, Virginia Tech

• Vernon Hargreaves, Florida

• Lamarcus Joyner, Florida State

• Steven Nelson, Oregon State

• Cody Prewitt, Ole Miss

• Calvin Pryor, Louisville

• Jason Verrett, TCU

• Jimmie Ward, Northern Illinois

• Ty Zimmerman, Kansas State

Butkus Award semifinalists

• Anthony Barr, UCLA

• Lamin Barrow, LSU

• Chris Borland, Wisconsin

• Khairi Fortt, California

• Khalil Mack, Buffalo

• C.J. Mosley, Alabama

• Denzel Perryman, Miami (Fla.)

• Trevor Reilly, Utah

• Ryan Shazier, Ohio State

• Shayne Skov, Stanford

• Yawin Smallwood, Connecticut

• Kyle Van Noy, Brigham Young