--- Tusculum College quarterback Bo Cordell's bid for the 2013 Harlon Hill Trophy has ended with the announcement of the top three finalists for the NCAA Division II College Football Player of the Year Award.

Senior running back Franklyn Quiteh of Bloomsburg University, junior quarterback Kevin Rodgers of Henderson State University and senior quarterback Dustin Vaughan of West Texas A&M University have emerged as the top three vote-getters from a field of nine finalists in voting by the sports information directors at the 169 schools that compete in Division II football.

The results of the voting won't be announced until Dec. 20, as Quiteh, Rodgers and Vaughn have received invitations to attend the Harlon Hill Trophy Presentation Banquet in Florence, Ala.

Cordell is the first player in Tusculum history to be named a national finalist for NCAA II football's most coveted individual honor twice in his career. Cordell finished fourth in the voting for the 2010 Harlon Hill Trophy.

Cordell wraps up one of the most prolific careers ever by a collegiate signal caller. The Cincinnati, Ohio native (Indian Hill HS) owns 15 NCAA Division II records, including career passing yards (16,265 - 4th all NCAA divisions), career completions (1,397 - 3rd all NCAA divisions), career pass attempts (2,187 - 3rd all NCAA divisions) career total offensive yards (16,432 - 4th all NCAA divisions) and total offensive plays in a career (2,572 - 2nd all NCAA divisions). Cordell was named the 2013 Daktonics Super Region 2 and South Atlantic Conference Offensive Player of the Year. He leads the league in six statistical categories this season including: passing yards (3,920 - 4th in NCAA II), passing yards per game (356.4 ypg - 4th in NCAA II), points responsible for (178 - 28th in NCAA II), points responsible for per game (16.2 ppg - 35th in NCAA II) and total offense (365.1 ypg - 5th in NCAA II). Cordell's 3,920 passing yards are the third-most in school history and fifth-best in SAC history, while his 4,020 total offensive yards are third most in both the TC and SAC record books.

Cordell has completed 25 touchdown passes in 2013, which are the third most by a Tusculum player and eighth-most by a SAC quarterback. He owns 13 South Atlantic Conference football records, including career touchdown passes (112) and touchdowns responsible for (127), marks he established in his collegiate finale earlier this month against Mars Hill University.

Cordell, Ricardo Colclough and Corey Russell are the only three Tusculum players to advance to the Harlon Hill Trophy national ballot. Colclough finished fifth in the national voting in 2003, while Russell placed sixth on the 2008 final ballot.

This marks the 12th time that a South Atlantic Conference player has been named as a national finalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy, but only the second time that a SAC player has advanced to the national ballot. Cunningham was a national finalist in 1999 and again in 2001. In 2011, Mars Hill's Jonas Randolph became the only SAC player to win the award.