The first senior all-star game of the new year is Saturday with the East-West Shrine game and 27 players from the nonautomatic qualifying schools are participating in the event.

The West team has the biggest non-AQ influence with 18 players, including 13 players from the Mountain West Conference. BYU quarterback Max Hall is one of three quarterbacks on the West side and the only non-AQ quarterback invited to the game. Similarly, BYU’s Dennis Pitta is the only non-AQ tight end in the game and Fresno State’s Robert Malone is the only non-AQ punter.

The military academies have three participants this season with Army wide receiver Ali Villanueva, Navy linebacker Ross Pospisil and Air Force safety Chris Thomas.

Middle Tennessee linebacker Chris McCoy is the lone representative from the Sun Belt Conference.

The East-West Shrine Game, which has been played every year since 1925, is held at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla. The game is played to raise funds for Shriners Hospitals for Children and to raise awareness about the expert orthopedic, burn, spinal cord injury rehabilitation, and cleft lip and palate care available at no charge to patients and families, through the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children.

EAST TEAM

Ali Villanueva, WR, Army

Freddie Barnes, WR, Bowling Green

Van Eskridge, FS, East Carolina

Chris McCoy, OLB, Middle Tennessee

Ross Pospisil, ILB, Navy

Andre Anderson, RB, Tulane

Naaman Roosevelt, WR, Buffalo

Torell Troup, DT, UCF

Barry Church, SS, Toledo

WEST TEAM

Chris Thomas, S, Air Force

Max Hall, QB, BYU

Jan Jorgensen, DE, BYU

Dennis Pitta, TE, BYU

Klint Kubiak, S, Colorado State

Cole Pemberton, OT, Colorado State

Shelley Smith, OG, Colorado State

Seyi Ajirotutu, WR, Fresno State

Robert Malone, P, Fresno State

Lonyae Miller, RB, Fresno State

Emmanuel Sanders, WR, SMU

Marshall Newhouse, OT, TCU

John Estes, C, Hawaii

David Reed, WR, Utah

Robert Johnson, S, Utah

Stevenson Sylvester, OLB, Utah

Jason Beauchamp, OLB, UNLV

Martin Tevaseu, DT, UNLV