Mason Love

2025 Coaches SEC All-Freshman Team 2025 CSC Academic All-District 2024-25 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll 2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll Third-year scholarship punter/placekicker in 2026… earned SEC All-Freshman honors as a punter in 2025… also works as a holder on placekicks. 2025 (Redshirt Freshman) Earned Freshman All-SEC honors as selected by the league’s 16 coaches… was the nation’s second-best freshman punter, averaging 45.1-yards per punt, behind only Hawaii’s 29-year-old former professional Australian Rules football player Billy Gowers (46.2)… 13 of his 53 punts traveled 50 or more yards with a long of 61 against Texas A&M… placed 16 punts inside the 20 with just four touchbacks… averaged at least 44-yards per punt in nine of 12 games and boomed a 50-yarder in eight contests… averaged a career-high 49.0 yards on five punts against South Carolina State… named to the Ray Guy Award’s “Ray’s 8” for his efforts against both LSU, when all four of his punts were downed inside the 20, and Alabama, when he averaged 47.0 yards on four punts… had four kickoffs for a 46.5-yard average… missed his only field goal attempt, a 53-yarder against Vanderbilt… also served as the holder for William Joyce on field goals and extra point attempts… named to the CSC Academic All-District team. 2024 (Freshman) True freshman who served as a backup punter and placekicker in his first season in Columbia… joined the team in January and went through spring drills… did not see any game action… named to the 2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll and to the 2024-25 SEC First-Year Honor Roll. HIGH SCHOOL Kicker/punter from Park Hill South High School in Riverside, Mo., a suburb of Kansas City… graduated in December 2023… averaged 44 yards per punt and connected on 16-of-20 field goals and 17-of-18 extra points as a senior… long field goal was from 57 yards… 93 percent of his kickoffs were touchbacks… earned first-team all-conference as both a punter and placekicker as a senior… earned all-state honors both on the field and in the classroom… selected as an Under Armour All-American… won the punt and field goal competitions at the Texas Showcase in the spring of 2023… ranked by Kohl’s as the nation’s top punter and 22nd-best kicker. PERSONAL Mason Love was born May 20, 2006… is a sports media major.