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Topic: SI All-time College Football Team

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2023, 10:52:57 PM »
Is Saban over Rockne crazy?  

Reed or Sean Taylor in for Easley?  
I think Eric Berry at Tennessee might be the best college safety I ever saw play.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2023, 11:49:10 PM »
Replacing who?
Any of the RBs.  He's #1 in my opinion 
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #16 on: December 26, 2023, 02:17:36 PM »
QB: Tim Tebow UF
RB: Glenn Davis ARMY
RB: Red Grange ILL
RB: Earl Campbell TEX
RB: Herschel Walker UGA
RB: Bo Jackson AUB
RB/RET: Barry Sanders OKST
FB/DT:  Bronko Nagurski MINN
WR: Larry Fitzgerald PITT
End: Leon Hart ND
WR: Johnny Rodgers UNL
T: Orlando Pace OSU
T: Ron Yary USC
G: John Hannah ALA
G: Will Shields UNL
C/LB: Dick Butkus ILL
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DE: Bubba Smith MSU
DE: Hugh Green PITT
DT: Lee Roy Selmon OU
DT: Ndomukong Suh UNL
LB: Derrick Thomas ALA
LB: Tommy Nobis TEX
LB: Lawrence Taylor UNC
CB: Nile Kinnick IOWA
CB: Deion Sanders FSU
S:  Kenny Easley UCLA
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HC: Knute Rockne ND
HC: Bear Bryant ALA, A&M, UK

How's this?
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2023, 02:27:52 PM »
I think it's too broad, in terms of spanning eras. 
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2023, 06:06:44 PM »
How's this?
I'd replace Shields at guard with Dean Stienkuhler 
I like Suh.
I don't buy Kinnick at corner, but didn't see him play. 
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2023, 09:14:52 PM »
I think it's too broad, in terms of spanning eras.
Maybe pre and post WWII teams?  Or further back, like 1970 or so?
I like that idea.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2023, 12:06:38 AM »
I would substitute WR/KR/CB Woodson for QB/RB/KR/CB Nile Kinnick.  To this day Kinnick still holds the Iowa career record for defensive interceptions.
You forgot, Punter. I am not sure if KR is Kicker or Kick Returner. He was the last of the great drop kickers, even though the shape of the ball changed to the modern ball at the start of his college career. He drop-kicked an extra point to defeat ND, when ND missed its extra point in 1939. As a kid he drop-kicked the old footballs against a barn for practice. Kinnick wasn't just All American; he was all everything.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2023, 12:07:35 AM »
I'd replace Shields at guard with Dean Stienkuhler
I like Suh.
I don't buy Kinnick at corner, but didn't see him play.
Youngster. I think he was pretty good. Iowa corners such as Desmond King, have tied the single season record of 8, but helped preserve Kinnick's single season interception record of eight. However Kinnick did it in 9-games. I think King had 13-games.
Devon Mitchell had 18 interceptions in 4-years, whereas Kinnick had 18 interceptions in 3-years with many fewer games, and many fewer passing plays.

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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #22 on: December 27, 2023, 01:52:48 AM »
And a much MUCH higher passing INT rate overall.
Those gentlemen were lobbing it up for grabs, lol.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2023, 07:35:48 AM »
Maybe pre and post WWII teams?  Or further back, like 1970 or so?
I like that idea.
Maybe 2000-Present

1970-1999

1946-1969

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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2023, 08:18:19 AM »
Maybe 2000-Present

1970-1999

1946-1969


Jeez, might as well have a top 100, lol.
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2023, 08:22:55 AM »
Randy Moss in over Fitzgerald.

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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #26 on: December 27, 2023, 08:52:57 AM »
Youngster. I think he was pretty good. Iowa corners such as Desmond King, have tied the single season record of 8, but helped preserve Kinnick's single season interception record of eight. However Kinnick did it in 9-games. I think King had 13-games.
Devon Mitchell had 18 interceptions in 4-years, whereas Kinnick had 18 interceptions in 3-years with many fewer games, and many fewer passing plays.


Thanks for the compliment.

I wholeheartedly agree Nile was pretty good. Just questioning one of the all-time greats.
I also don't think INTs are the best measure of a corner, but a measure none the less.
Perhaps the gentlemen listed below should get consideration??

Most interceptions, career
29 – Al Brosky, Illinois, 1950–52 (appears Al played 3 seasons)

Most interceptions, season
14 – Al Worley, Washington, 1968
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Re: SI All-time College Football Team
« Reply #27 on: December 27, 2023, 08:55:29 AM »
Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago won the first Heisman.

In 1935.

Could he do that today?

Not a chance.


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