ESPNU ranks the top 10 college running backs of all time.

2007 June 26
by jonkoncak

ESPNU ranks the top 10 college running backs of all time. This is a popular debate, especially with us SEC’ers and the many great runners we’ve seen in this conference. Not suprised at who’s ranked #1, but I’m sure there will lots of barners who disagree. Of course once The Bow’s career is over, he’ll be considered the greatest runner of all time.

http://georgiasports.blogspot.com/2007/06/video-herschel-named-greatest-college.html

EDIT: I just realized that this was ESPNU’s “Top 10 college running backs other than Tim Tebow” list. Duh, no wonder. That part was cut from the video.

12 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 June 26

    2 yards (to the left) and a fist pump!! Go Bow Go!!

  2. 2007 June 26
    TeBow's Cuckold permalink

    looky here motherfucker, Tebow is already the best. He is a fucking rock (rhymes w/cock!!) Star.

    I wish I had a girl to offer to him…for DNA donations

  3. 2007 June 26
    Taco Bell Soft Tacos permalink

    Bo (not The Bow) should have been #1 on that list. Fucking ESPN

  4. 2007 June 26

    TBST, I and many others think they got #1 right, but having Bo Jackson at #5 is off. No way Red Grange is a better back than Bo. No way any of those white guys without face masks should be on the top 10 list. God bless ‘em. They’re pioneers of the sport, but today they’d be average fullbacks at best, but more likely on their school’s club rugby team. Kinda like how Shaq would throw George Mikan around the paint like “the sisters” did Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption.

    Everyone can agree that Herschel, OJ, Bo, Barry, Earl, and Archie were bad asses and no one would be hurtin’ if any one of them were on your squad.

  5. 2007 June 26
    Taco Bell Soft Tacos permalink

    True Jon, very true. I just don’t see how a failed bobsledder can be above the greatest athlete of all time on any list.

  6. 2007 June 26

    Well, TBTS, the list is “top 10 college running backs of all time”, not greatest athlete of all time. Even in that category you have to look at what is considered athletic and an athlete in a popular sport. Baseball is much more popular than Olympic bobsledding and track and field, but doesn’t require too much athleticism (Babe Ruth, John Kruk, Fernado Venezuela, Cecil Fielder, Greg Maddux…).

    Bo was an exceptional athlete, maybe the greatest, bitch slapping a non-athletic, but popular and high paying sport (baseball). If I were starting a baseball team, I’d take Bo over Herschel, but I’d take the latter for a college football team. Walker also held the world record for the 60 yard dash for a little while until it was broken by Carl Lewis in a meet in Dallas in 1982(?). Nice company. Herschel ran for 5200 yards in his 3 college seasons and Bo ran for 4300 in his 4 seasons. If he would’ve maintained his averages and played his senior season, Herschel would’ve finished with 7,014 career rushing yards. Basically placing the record out of reach.

    Freak-
    http://www.uga.edu/gm/300/images/Herschel8.JPG

  7. 2007 June 27

    First of all, most of the guys who play today probably wouldn’t have had the guts to play during Red Grange’s time, so the old timers should be included on the list because of sheer mental and physical toughness if for no other reason. You need to probably stop playing so many video games and go out into the world some times.

    Second, where’s Ricky Williams?

  8. 2007 June 27
    Pearl owns Donovan permalink

    Nice post cornhole nation dude. You are probably correct that most of today’s players wouldn’t have the ed orgeron level of toughness to play like Red Grange. They would be Bomared

  9. 2007 June 27
    Tyrone Prothro's floppy get-a-way stick permalink

    God, why did they have to show Bates getting steamrolled? Damnit.

  10. 2007 June 27

    Corn Nation, you bring up an interesting scenario; guts vs. talent. Yes, Red Grange would have the guts to take on Takeo Spikes head-on with a leather helmet. Then he wouldn’t do it ever again. You have made a dangerous, blanket statement about all of today’s players that can’t be backed up with facts. Players back in the 1940’s were, on average, slower and weaker than players since the 1980’s and to say that today’s players are gutless next to their 1940’s counterparts is personal opinion.

    Another huge thing is that those white guys in leather helmets (hey, a great name for my new band) didn’t let the black guys play. It was a bunch of slow white guys against a bunch of slow white guys. Oh, what a show of “guts”. It would be about as entertaining as +40 year old men’s church basketball league. Look, us white guys can be fast and all, but let’s be honest, how many black guys were allowed to play major college football in the 1920’s, 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s? Very few nationwide and zero down here in the south. That is until 1970 when Southern Cal, with several black players, came in a pimped slapped Bear Bryant’s Arian tide 42-17 virtually ending athletic segregation in southern college football. By 1973 1/3rd of Alabama’s starters were black. I’m Dixie to the day I die, but, damn, my forefathers had some really jacked up opinions on race relations.

    Easy Nebraskans, the rest of the nation can’t beat their perceived great humanitarian chests either as it wasn’t until the 1960’s that several black athletes were actually on rosters. Why does that matter? Simple, the best athletes weren’t out there until the 1970’s. So if that’s the case, how can anyone that played in the 1940’s be in the top 10 of any category that includes athletes from the modern era (post 1960’s)?

  11. 2007 June 27
    Taco Bell Soft Tacos permalink

    Jon, the bobsled comment was a joke. I was just wondering if anyone still remembered Walker as an alternate for the Olympic Bobsled team or not.

  12. 2007 June 27

    Oh, I know that. I’m not pissed at the thought someone says Bo over Herschel. It’s apples and apples really. Bo could’ve stuck to track and field, but had to chose a path and he could sprint his ass off for $10,000 on the track or $1,000,000 on the grid iron and diamond. Easy choice.

    To me, Bo and Herschel were very similar, with Herschel getting the edge having the bigger body earlier in college.

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