100 Greatest College Football Players of All Time

Honorable mention: Eric Dickerson, SMU; Mike Ditka, Pittsburgh; Raghib Ismail, Notre Dame; Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma; Dean Steinkuhler, Nebraska; Jay Berwanger, Chicago; Thomas Shevlin, Yale; John Hicks, Ohio State; Joe Greene, North Texas State; Colt McCoy, Texas

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• Greatest
• College
• Football
• Players
• Vince
• Young
• Tim
• Tebow
• Reggie
• Bush
• Matt
• Leinart
• Tommie
• Frazier
• Herschel
• Walker
• Barry
• Sanders
• Tony
• Dorsett
• Jim
• Thorpe
• Red
• Grange
• Cam
• Newton
• Bo
• Jackson
• Earl
• Campbell
• Archie
• Griffin

[PatzFaN4LifE345]

..............................­........Are u shittin me? Fucking Vince Young? Alllllllll the College players of all time and thats the guy u pick for number 1? U fail

[bornahorn]

@PatzFaN4LifE345 Name me another player who has played back-to-back bigtime bowl games that compare with Young's 2 Rose Bowls. And there's the 4th-quarter comeback to beat Ohio State in the Shoe. And there's the 30-2 record. And there's the 6.8 career yards per carry (way higher than Vick, Newton, Tebow). And there's the 3000/1000 season. And there's the fact he didn't even return for his senior year.

No player since Thorpe or Grange has shown such an ability to completely dominate opponents.

[losangelescardinals]

In my opinion, Barry Sanders and Herschel Walker were better than Vince Young. QB position gets too much credit.

[bornahorn]

@losangelescardinals “He beat us by himself. They didn’t have any other player on the team who did anything but him." - former Michigan and current Eagles receiver Jason Avant on Vince Young's 2005 Rose Bowl performance

[PatrickBurrus3234]

BULLSHIT, HERSCHEL WALKER BEST PLAYER ALL TIME NO DOUBT

[jason60152]

@n00bSiabot yeah you already said Herschel Walker had a better college career than Barry Sanders.I agree with you:)

[n00bSiabot]

@jason60152 He had the best single season but I don't know about Career.

[jason60152]

@n00bSiabot yeah I thought you was talking about both of there last seasons in college.Do you agree that Barry Sanders had the best single season of college by any RB?

[n00bSiabot]

@jason60152 He was great but even ESPN agreed in their top RB segment that he was not better than Herschel. 

[n00bSiabot]

@bornahorn Herschel ran the ball 30+ times a game for 200+ yards without tiring. In his last season he only had 5 catches all year for 86 yards avg. 18 yards per catch. He ran for around 2000 yards every season. He was on the field for 399 plays in his '81 season and ran the 385 times that season and DIDN"T TIRE. You saying V.Y. is the best of all time is wrong because Herschel, and others, were better than him. Herschel is THE ONLY player to finish in the top 3 for Heisman every year he played.

[n00bSiabot]

@PatrickBurrus3234 Absolutely, no other player in history has had his combination of massive size and deadly speed. Nor has most of the guys on this list been doing hardcore fighting around the age of 40-50 and winning. Easily the best, plus if you had the fact that he suffers from split personalities and when he played football a warrior personality came out that prevented him from feeling pain whilst playing the game.

[n00bSiabot]

@bornahorn Dude there is like a billion of quotes like that for both Sanders and Walker.

[jason60152]

@n00bSiabot Barry Sanders.

[buckeyefan281]

@bornahorn Vince Young was good, but not the greatest. And if your going to try and pull out stats to prove me wrong then i'll go ahead and throw out something for you to think about. Ken Dorsey was 38-2, 2001 National Champs, 2002 Runner-Up, 2x Heisman Trophy Finalist, 9,565 Passing Yards, and 86 Passing TDs. And I don't see him on this list (Not saying Dorsey was the greatest but needed a QB with good record). Stats don't prove everything. And cmon man Lee-Roy Selmon #33? Waaayyyy Higher!!

[TheTopHatGamer]

@brannenoliv 50? Little harsh... Many argue that Herschel Walker is the all time greatest. My father watched him play personaly and said that he was a man amongst boys. Thgen Tim Tebow beats the ALL TIME rushing TD record set by Herschel.So one of (if not THE greatest) RB of all time had his rushing TD record broken by a QB. Tebow in my opinion is the greatest ever. Not the best QB but the best PLAYER.