At the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on ESPN, Gonzalez stood alongside Daniel Carlson of Auburn and Younghoe Koo of Georgia Southern while his named was called as excitement and disappointment flurried through the room. While Gonzalez is the second ASU kicker to ever win the Lou Groza Award, he is considered the best.
Gonzalez ended his collegiate career with 96 made field goals, the new record for made-field goals in a collegiate career. This season, Gonzalez knocked through 23 field goals and 39 extra points. He scored 108 points on the season and had an accuracy rate of 92 percent, the highest rate of his collegiate career.