--- title: ESPN Asks Toddlers About College Football: Video description: Some incredibly high-level analysis, mostly about badgers and bulldogs canonical: https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T15:39:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:13.624Z og:title: Here Is What a Group of Toddlers Have to Say About College Football og:description: Some incredibly high-level analysis, mostly about badgers and bulldogs og:url: https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43f6617b0e9bb304/69876e34428a9ef9aacc5fae/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-10-19-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 10.19.05 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Is What a Group of Toddlers Have to Say About College Football twitter:description: Some incredibly high-level analysis, mostly about badgers and bulldogs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43f6617b0e9bb304/69876e34428a9ef9aacc5fae/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-10-19-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here Is What a Group of Toddlers Have to Say About College Football by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 11, 2014 3:39 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 11, 2014 3:39 PM CUT ESPN gathered a group of very young (but clearly very well-informed) sports analysts to discuss who should win this year’s Maxwell Award, given to the best player in college football. The conversation mostly centered on team mascots, eliciting smart responses from the panelists like “I don’t like the badger” and “He’s a doggy” and “I like the ducky.” Even smarter than these comments, though, are the panelists’ outfits. One rocks a sharp blue bowtie and a velveteen blazer, for example, while another goes for smart but sensible in khakis, boat shoes and a crisp sport jacket. Man, we’d watch ESPN so much more often if it featured more toddlers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/"},"headline":"Here Is What a Group of Toddlers Have to Say About College Football","datePublished":"2014-12-11T15:39:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:13.624Z","description":"Some incredibly high-level analysis, mostly about badgers and bulldogs","url":"https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","kids","ESPN","Toddlers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43f6617b0e9bb304/69876e34428a9ef9aacc5fae/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-10-19-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43f6617b0e9bb304/69876e34428a9ef9aacc5fae/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-10-19-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 10.19.05 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3629830/espn-toddlers-maxwell-awards/","name":"Here Is What a Group of Toddlers Have to Say About College Football"}}]}] ```