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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on July 19, 2018, 09:55:16 PM

Title: Best #55
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 19, 2018, 09:55:16 PM

Holllllly Cowwwww, good luck with this one!  COLLEGE ONLY!

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: ALA2262 on July 19, 2018, 10:20:02 PM

QUARTERBACK SACKS

GAME
5 Derrick Thomas at Texas A&M (38 yards) ............................. Dec. 1, 1988
4 Derrick Thomas at Kentucky (14 yards) ................................. Oct. 1, 1988

SEASON
27.0 Derrick Thomas (204 yards) ................................................. .....................1988
18.0 Derrick Thomas (142 yards) ................................................. ....................1987

CAREER
52.0 Derrick Thomas (408 yards) ................................................. ..............1985-88


TACKLES FOR LOSS
GAME
7 Derrick Thomas at Texas A&M (5 sacks & 2 TFLs) ............ Dec. 1, 1988
6 Derrick Thomas at Kentucky (4 sacks & 2 TFLs) ................. Oct. 1, 1988

SEASON
39.0 Derrick Thomas (250 yards) ................................................. .....................1988

CAREER
68.0 Derrick Thomas (465 yards) ................................................. ..............1985-88




INSANE! All still Bama records. NCAA record for season sacks is 24. Will not recognize anything before 2000.

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: FearlessF on July 20, 2018, 10:15:27 AM

MARVIN JONES,  a three-time All-America who won the Butkus and Lombardi awards in 1992. 

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: Entropy on July 20, 2018, 11:45:38 AM

good luck indeed... I had to go with Marvin Jones.  Tough group.  A lot of great players on that list

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 20, 2018, 03:59:53 PM

I just missed Derrick Thomas in college.  Marvin Jones was good and had that dark shield like Dunbar - and just looked bad ass.  He was the first great college LB of my memory.

But Thomas had infinite sacks, so I went with him.

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: Kris61 on July 22, 2018, 07:25:05 PM

Went with Derrick Thomas by a nose over Marvin Jones.  I remember Marvin Jones once said while at FSU his perfect hit would be laying someone out and the trauma copter having to land on the field.  

Yikes!

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 22, 2018, 07:35:38 PM

If he said that in 2018, he'd be suspended....

Title: Re: Best #55
Post by: FearlessF on July 22, 2018, 10:12:37 PM

I'll bet Butkus said worse than that every week

and is revered for it