10 Greatest College Players

[Texas Aggie]

I wouldn't put Barry over Hershel or Archie. Maybe not over Bo.

[HLin NC]

Doug Atkins

[OverAndBack]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

I wouldn't put Barry over Hershel or Archie. Maybe not over Bo.

Watching the highlights they showed from his senior year yesterday, I had forgotten how magic that guy was, but just different from Herschel and Bo.

Herschel always seemed to me like he was sent back from the future and was just head and shoulders above everybody else. He and Bo are probably the greatest athletes I've ever seen from a sheer power and destructiveness and unstoppability standpoint.

But Sanders' running was just...man, something to watch.

You couldn't put a piece of paper between probably the top 8 guys on the list, they're all great in different ways.

[GarthB]

Sammy Baugh belongs in the top 10.

[BuckeyeRef]

Your list is way better than ABC's. Seriously, Vince Young in the top 10. He was good, but not even close. I would add Red Grange somewhere in the top 5 and I would agree that Barry Sanders season was great. My problem with Sanders is that the list is the top 25 players of all time and he really only played one year. He would probably have the ranking for the best season of all time, but I look at people like Herschel Walker, Archie Griffin, Bo Jackson and they all had great careers.

[IceGator8]

I'd have a hard time not including at least one BYU quarterback. I think either Jim McMahon or Steve Young would fit the bill.

For a long time BYU quarterbacks took turns rewriting the record book.