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OrangeAfroMan

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All-Time AP All-American Team named
« on: August 14, 2025, 11:11:32 PM »
For their 100th anniversary of naming AA teams:
QB - Tebow
RB - Sanders & Walker
WR - Moss & Fitzgerald
TE - Bowers
T - Pace & Fralic
G - Hannah & Parker
C - Bednarik
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DE - Green & White
DT - Suh & Nagurski
LB - Thomas, Butkus, Spielman
CB - Sanders & Woodson
S - Lott & Reed
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K - Janikowski
P - Tory Taylor, Iowa (2023)
AP - Rodgers
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12 AP ppl voted.  Players had to be named to at least 1 first-team AA.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2025, 11:13:30 PM »
I think Aaron Donald gets overlooked BECAUSE of his NFL success, which is weird.  Usually it's the opposite.  
67 TFL in his career at Pitt.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2025, 07:29:21 AM »
Lazy list. I stopped at Butkus. Yes, he an All-American.

He was NOT an All-American at LB.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2025, 10:13:30 AM »
Rimington was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. He played for the Huskers from 1979 to ’82. He won the Outland Trophy twice, in 1981 and 1982. The Outland is awarded for the best interior linemen in college football. Rimington is the only player to win the Outland twice.

AP awarded first-team center honors to Penn’s Chuck Bednarik, who played for the Quakers in 1947 and ’48. Bednarik was called “Concrete Charlie” and he played on offense and defense.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2025, 04:19:55 PM »
AP list...more like AI.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2025, 05:10:31 PM »
Dang, Dick Butkus retired in 73? My aunt was still joking about his name well into the 90s. I thought he must have at least played in the 80s. 
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2025, 05:15:06 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on August 15, 2025, 05:10:31 PM
Dang, Dick Butkus retired in 73? My aunt was still joking about his name well into the 90s. I thought he must have at least played in the 80s.
To be fair, he kept his name alive via a LOT of endorsements. 

I'm not old enough to remember him as a player; he retired 5 years before I was born. I do remember him from commercials. 
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2025, 11:28:40 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on August 15, 2025, 05:10:31 PM
Dang, Dick Butkus retired in 73? My aunt was still joking about his name well into the 90s. I thought he must have at least played in the 80s.
He had a strong 80s mustache, though.  

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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2025, 11:32:31 PM »
Lott played at least as much CB as S.  And he was obviously not one of the top 2 safeties of all time (solely in college).  

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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2025, 10:51:36 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 15, 2025, 11:32:31 PM
Lott played at least as much CB as S.  And he was obviously not one of the top 2 safeties of all time (solely in college). 
Yeah I was going to say he was mostly CB. 

Give me Sean Taylor at safety and Ed Reed at the other safety. Miami really had the two best safeties I’ve ever seen on the same damn team. Pretty wild.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2025, 10:55:20 AM »
also as much as I respect Tebow, I have a hard time saying he’s the best QB of all-time in college.

Vince Young is the gold standard college QB to me, Cam Newton might be the most physically gifted QB we’ve ever seen and had the greatest single season any QB ever had until Joe Burrow came along and had the best single season of any QB ever.

I’m taking one of those 3 guys over Tebow. Just am. They were all flat out better QB’s.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2025, 11:05:23 AM »
The only thing Vince Young was the best at was taking a called pass play and scrambling for a healthy ypc average.
As a QB, maybe that shouldn't be your #1 strength.  
I've never seen another player given such a halo effect based on 1 game.
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2025, 12:32:33 AM »
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Re: All-Time AP All-American Team named
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2025, 12:38:30 AM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on August 16, 2025, 10:55:20 AM


I’m taking one of those 3 guys over Tebow. Just am. They were all flat out better QB’s.
What would Tebow have had done differently to warrant your vote?
More than 2 national championships?
More than the SEC all-time lead in rushing TDs?
More than the highest pass rating of anyone who ever played before him?
Went 13-1 three times and won the Heisman the year they didn't go 13-1.
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So you're needing a 3rd national championship?
More than 60 rushing TDs?
A prettier throwing motion?
Prefer he'd been faster and juke more instead of running dudes over?
Maybe his teammates were too good?
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Everyone doesn't have to swoon over Tebow or pick him as the best QB ever, but any argument detailing what his career lacked is going to sound foolish.
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