The ESPN All-Time All-American College Football Team

[NolePride]

3 OSU players. Acceptable

Ditto for FSU. Although,Derrick Brooks should have made one of the squads

 

[desert heat]

joe montana had a pretty good college career. earl campbell was a beast. tony dorsett?

 

[outofyourmind]

earl campbell was a beast

I loved watching that guy.
Hated he played for Texas

 

[DeafOranguntan]

I feel like they factored in each players NFL career instead of what they strictly did in College, which I don’t like. No way Tim Tebow isn’t on the team if they only factor college

My thoughts too. Most of those players were nowhere near the best players at their position in college. But they named someone, and they thought, "Yeah, they were really good in the NFL, throw them in."

 

[desert heat]

I loved watching that guy.
Hated he played for Texas

played with lam and ham jones. went against joe montana and the irish in the cotton bowl for the national championship and were surprisingly drubbed.

 

[78Cyclones]

I saw 2 of the First Team Players in my first CFB Game I attended in person: John Hannah (Alabama) vs. Ray Guy (Southern Miss) in 1971.

 

[Moab]

It's not really that difficult to quantify, it's simply how much did you dominate while you were playing. It seems to me that while the players did get bigger and more athletic, they did so in increments, so it comes down to how awesome were you when you were playing.

 

[The Oldtimer]

joe montana had a pretty good college career. earl campbell was a beast. tony dorsett?

O.J. Simpson?

 

[outofyourmind]

I don't even know how you put this kind of thing together.

 

[OrangeAfroMan]

QB - Staubach - NOPE, better in NFL
RB - Brown - NOPE, better in NFL
RB - Walker - YES
WR - Rice - NOPE, better in NFL
WR - Fitzgerald - NOPE, only played 2 years
TE - Ditka - NOPE, better HC than player
C - Bednarik - NOPE, better in NFL at LB
G - Hannah - YES
G - Parker - YES
T - Pace - YES
T - Fralic - YES.....how do they get the OL right and nothing else?
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DE - Green - YES
DE - White - NOPE, better in NFL
DT - Nagurski - NOPE, better in NFL @ FB
DT - Selmon - YES
LB - Butkus - NOPE, better in NFL
LB - Taylor - NOPE, better in NFL
LB - Nobis - YES
CB - Sanders - YES (and better in NFL)
CB - Woodson - YES
S - Tatum - NOPE (was great, but not the best ever)
S - Lott - NOPE, better in NFL
.
K - Janikowski - NOPE (biggest leg maybe, but not best ever)
P - Guy - SURE, don't really care
AP - Rodgers - SURE

 

[The Oldtimer]

joe montana had a pretty good college career. earl campbell was a beast. tony dorsett?

Eric Dickerson?

 

[iowajerms]

No Red Grange? According to his Wiki page

In 2008, he was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network.​

 

[desert heat]

O.J. Simpson?

of course, but he only played 2 years.

 

[desert heat]

Eric Dickerson?

i wouldn't argue with him being selected. shared time with craig james at smu, otherwise his stats would have been even more massive.

 

[The Oldtimer]

of course, but he only played 2 years.

You're right.

Simpson chose to attend the University of Southern California (USC), which he had admired as a young football fan, over the University of Utah and played running back for head coach John McKay in 1967 and 1968. Simpson led the nation in rushing both years under McKay: in 1967 with 1,543 yards and 13 touchdowns, and in 1968 with 1,880 yards on 383 carries.

As a junior in 1967, Simpson was a close runner-up in the Heisman Trophy balloting to quarterback Gary Beban of UCLA. In that year's Victory Bell rivalry game between the teams, USC was down by six points in the fourth quarter with under eleven minutes remaining. On their own 36, USC backup quarterback Toby Page called an audible on third and seven. Simpson's 64-yard touchdown run tied the score, and the extra point provided a 21–20 lead, which was the final score.This was the biggest play in what is regarded as one of the greatest football games of the 20th century.

Another dramatic touchdown in the same game is the subject of the Arnold Friberg oil painting, O.J. Simpson Breaks for Daylight. Simpson also won the Walter Camp Award in 1967 and was a two-time consensus All-American.

 

[desert heat]

You're right.

Simpson chose to attend the University of Southern California (USC), which he had admired as a young football fan, over the University of Utah and played running back for head coach John McKay in 1967 and 1968. Simpson led the nation in rushing both years under McKay: in 1967 with 1,543 yards and 13 touchdowns, and in 1968 with 1,880 yards on 383 carries.

As a junior in 1967, Simpson was a close runner-up in the Heisman Trophy balloting to quarterback Gary Beban of UCLA. In that year's Victory Bell rivalry game between the teams, USC was down by six points in the fourth quarter with under eleven minutes remaining. On their own 36, USC backup quarterback Toby Page called an audible on third and seven. Simpson's 64-yard touchdown run tied the score, and the extra point provided a 21–20 lead, which was the final score.This was the biggest play in what is regarded as one of the greatest football games of the 20th century.

Another dramatic touchdown in the same game is the subject of the Arnold Friberg oil painting, O.J. Simpson Breaks for Daylight. Simpson also won the Walter Camp Award in 1967 and was a two-time consensus All-American.

his college career was before my time, but he obviously made the best of those two years. prime simpson was the most dominating running back the world has ever seen.

 

[desert heat]

Tony Dorsett - Wikipedia

As a senior in 1976, he helped lead his school to a national title, picking up the Heisman Trophy,[7] the Maxwell Award,[8] the Walter Camp Award for player of the year, and the United Press International (UPI) Player of the Year award along the way as he led the nation in rushing with 2,150 yards. He was a three-time first-team All-American (1973, 1975, 1976) and a second-team All-American in 1974 by UPI and Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). Dorsett finished his college career with 6,082 total rushing yards, then an NCAA record. This would stand as the record until it was surpassed by Ricky Williams in 1998.

Dorsett was the first Pitt player to have his jersey retired, after being a four-time 1,000-yard rusher and four-time All-American. He is considered one of the greatest running backs in college football history. In 2007, he was ranked #7 on ESPN's Top 25 Players in College Football History list.

 

[PIBuckeye]

3 OSU players. Acceptable

Yea. but. honestly, you could bring up a few more. Just like many other programs legitimately could. What about Eddie George? Are you kidding me? He was a monster of a RB......

 

[antone112]

O.J. Simpson?

Not a jew.

 

[iowajerms]