Your School's All-Time Team, as per my game

[CWSooner]

I know Samaje has the stats, but Marcus Dupree or Joe Washington for the 4th spot

Those are both reasonable choices, and I thought a long time about Washington.  He was playing at OU exactly when I was attending it, so he's the sentimental pick for me.  I thought about putting him in as a punt returner, but his stats there aren't all that great.
Depending on how OAM computes carries, Dupree might not work well because he played less than a year and a half.

EDIT: I see that OAM has addressed that issue.

Also, Perine can play fullback.

[Hawkinole]

You can include pre-1971 players if you have the pertinent stats for them (so for Kinnick, if you have his INT numbers, include him there, but if his punting average is unknown, don't put him there).  And players can be at multiple spots, like in reality, a WR could also be your KR.




The 1971 cutoff year is based on what I was able to find - stats for national champions going back that far.  Believe it or not, for many programs, I have trouble finding pre-2000 stats.  Even more unbelievable, the NCAA site only has stats going back to 1989 for Division 1-A (FBS).  They have stats going back further than that for I-AA (FCS) for some reason.  I can't fathom why, and if they'd give me 50K/year to do it, I'd piece it together going back to leather helmets and train rides.

Career stats? Or, individual year stats? With college football, injuries, truncated careers where one doesn't always start, it seems like one year might be best.

[MarqHusker]

What's Dupree's playing weight for this game?

[Hawkinole]

Oh, and Eddie Podolak's Iowa career was as a QB two-years and RB his senior year, and I put him in there as a RB. Here are his career rushing stats ending in 1968. Damned good at 6.1 yards per carry as a senior as a RB, especially considering he played for Iowa.

		Rushing	Receiving	Scrimmage
Year	School	Conf	Class	Pos	G	Att	Yds	Avg	TD	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Plays	Yds	Avg	TD
1966	Iowa	Big Ten		QB	10	141	450	3.2						141	450	3.2	0
1967	Iowa	Big Ten		QB	10	112	323	2.9						112	323	2.9	0
1968	Iowa	Big Ten		RB	10	154	937	6.1	8	12	188	15.7	1	166	1125	6.8	9
Career	Iowa					407	1710	4.2	8	12	188	15.7	1	419	1898	4.5	9

[Hawkinole]

QB is really, really weak.  Can't complain about the RBs/WRs though.  Hawkins was a personal favorite from my pre-MSU fanhood days.  MSU's kicker list oddly I might put up against any school in the nation.  They didn't track them back then, but I assume Bubba Smith belongs on the sacks list if they did.

I would not assume anything other than Bubba Smith is the greatest Defensive End in history.

[OrangeAfroMan]

Career stats? Or, individual year stats? With college football, injuries, truncated careers where one doesn't always start, it seems like one year might be best.

Either would work, but I think most people have considered career.  
None of the mechanics would be different for individual season - it would just be marked on each card - instead of Billy Sims, it'd say 1978 or '78 Billy Sims for the name and All-Time Oklahoma for the team, something like that.

[Cincydawg]

Obviously Sanders had one year that was incredible, but a career that was statistically less impressive for obvious reasons.

[Cincydawg]

What Sanders did in the NFL on bad teams is pretty incredible to me.  

[OrangeAfroMan]

N-F-L is a 4-letter word as far as this thread is considered.

[SFBadger96]

Game question: is QB based on TD/INT ratio, passer rating, or something else?

[Mdot21]

Obviously Sanders had one year that was incredible, but a career that was statistically less impressive for obvious reasons.

he was a lightly recruited player as a true freshman stuck behind a RB that was an All-American the year before he got there and a guy that wound up being a future NFL HOF'er in Thurman Thomas. Not sure you can really hold that against him.
Barry had a pretty solid sophomore year as Thurman's back-up, and then blew the doors completely off of the hinges as a junior after Thurman left for the NFL and Barry was the guy. Saying that one year was incredible is an understatement. It's the greatest single season a college football player has ever had- forget RB- player- ever- still to this day- and it's in the argument for the greatest single season in the history of all sports.
Stats are for losers. Barry Sanders at his very best in college or the NFL is without peer. He's in a class all by himself. He is just simply the greatest RB that has ever or will ever live.

[847badgerfan]

Sayers.

[Mdot21]

Sayers.

great player, but was inferior to Sanders.
Barry Sanders simply put could do things that no other RB in the history of the game before or since could do. The year they actually gave him a FB in the NFL he ran for 2,053 yards and averaged 6.2 ypc. He would've ran for 2,000 yards every year had he played for Dallas or Denver and not the pathetically inept Detroit Lions.

[ALA2262]

N-F-L is a 4-letter word as far as this thread is considered.

F-N-F-L ?