Auburn's Austin Golson enters his final college football season on the watch list for the award going to the best center in the country.

A two-year starter for the Tigers, Golson was among the 71 centers, including eight from the SEC, on the Rimington Trophy watch list released Tuesday, an honor he repeated from the award's spring watch list in May.

The Prattville native has appeared in 36 career games, including 24 at Auburn, where he started all 13 games in 2016. After opening last season at left tackle for four games, Golson moved back to center for the last nine games of the season.

At the end of spring practice Golson worked at left guard and he could change positions if graduate transfer center Casey Dunn proves capable of starting.

The Rimington Trophy winner, who will be will be recognized at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska on Jan. 13, 2018, is selected by determining the consensus All-America pick from the Walter Camp Foundation, the Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America.

Auburn's Reese Dismukes won the Rimington Trophy in 2014.