re: Who are the fastest college football players of all time

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I'd like to know who is the fastest, with pads on, running say after 10 yds, for a 80yd td. The fastest 40yd guy could get caught and past by a guy who is not as good on the technical aspect of running a sprint but has overall greater speed.

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Yeah, track speed and football speed are two different things. Read a post from an old Bama fan earlier this year telling the time where he ran into Bama's DC not long after the '93 Sugar Bowl:

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It was about a month after the 1993 Sugar Bowl and I was in Montgomery working a convention. A few of my buddies and I decided to taste the local nightlife one evening. We ended up in a local club with alcohol, women and a band. One of my friends (an Auburn fan) said to me. "There's Brother Oliver with his wife". I naturally turned to get a good look. I remembered his masterful defensive plan for Miami.

Shortly after the Brother sighting I went to the men's room. While standing at a urinal up walked Brother to use the one next to me. I asked him, "Is Teague really that much faster than Lamar Thomas ?"

He replied, "You can't tell from one Saturday to the next who is the fastest. He turned on an extra gear because his buddy got burned on the coverage."

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For those that might not recall, Lamar Thomas was a member of the Miami track team and I think I recall hearing George Teague's speed was somewhere in the 4.5 to 4.6 range. Teague ran him down from behind badly (no angle), making up about 7 yards in doing so, and took the ball from him in the '93 Sugar Bowl...