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re: Your School's Best All-time Backfield

Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:15 am to
Posted by madmaxvol
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Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:15 am to
quote:

QB - Peyton Manning
RB - Jamal Lewis
RB - Travis Henry


quote:

QB - Heath Shuler/Tony Robinson toss-up
RB - Reggie Cobb
RB -Chuck Webb


Nope!!!

College Stats

Robinson (4 Seasons):
Yards per attempt - 8.0
Completion % - 61.6
Interceptions - 17
Interception % - 4.1
Rushing yards per attempt - 1.4
Total TDs - 27


Shuler (3 Seasons):
Yards per attempt - 8.0
Completion % - 61.6
Interceptions - 12
Interception % - 2.3
Rushing Yards per attempt - 2.4
Total TDs - 50


Manning (4 Seasons):
Yards per attempt - 8.1
Completion % - 62.5
Interceptions - 33
Interception % - 2.4
Rushing Yards Per attempt - -1.2
Total TDs - 101

Shuler threw 36 TD passes in his 3 years at UT. Manning threw 36 TD passes in his Senior season.


I loved the Cobb/Webb...The fact that Webb only played in 13 games due to his ACL injury makes it hard to know where he would have landed in the big picture. His game against Arkansas in the '89 cotton bowl is one of the single most impressive games I've ever seen a running back have. I am going to also let Reggie slide as well. Great running back but getting kicked off of the team for failing drug tests hurts his standing as well. I played against Reggie in HS, and personally liked the guy...but he really put UT in a difficult position during that '89 season. You don't get high and get kicked off the team the week before the Bama game (UT's only loss that season).

Posted by dchog
Pea Ridge
Member since Nov 2012
25784 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:23 am to
QB Joe Ferguson
RB Darren McFadden
RB Ben Cowins
Posted by Yellow Truck
Member since May 2025
282 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:28 am to
Peyton was two dimensional. He could pass, and he could out-think everyone else on the field. Archie Manning could run. Peyton got his running skills from Olivia.

Shuler could pass and run. He could also fight linebackers if they wanted to get rough.

Robinson was Michael Vick before Michael Vick.

I'll take Reggie Cobb over any running back we ever had. Jamal was great, but he flat out laid down his senior year. He was injured in '98 and only played 5 games. He ran to protect himself in '99.

Travis was workhorse, I'll say that much.

Webb would have been the best we ever had barring injury.
Posted by msudawg1200
Central Mississippi
Member since Jun 2014
10409 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:30 am to
quote:

Probably correct but I’ll go a little different for variety

QB-John Bond
RB-Keifer McGee (RIP)
RB-Anthony Dixon (10th all time in SEC rush yards)


I thought about Boobie, but since the OP said college plus NFL I went with Haddix who was a 1st round draft pick and had a slightly longer career and better NFL stats.
Posted by YeauxTigers
Sugar Land, TX
Member since Dec 2007
1004 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:40 am to
LSU (per your ask on college & pro careers "all-time")

QB - Y.A. Tittle
RB - Jim Taylor
RB - Billy Cannon
Posted by OccamsStubble
Member since Aug 2019
7603 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:53 am to
Cam Newton, National Champion 2010
Bo Jackson, National Champion 1983
Carnell Wiliams, National Champion, 2004
Posted by Gator5220
Member since Aug 2010
4389 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:05 am to
QB - Danny Wuerffel/Tim Tebow
RB - Emmitt Smith
RB - Fred Taylor
Posted by Open Dore Policy
The Commodore State
Member since Oct 2012
4693 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:09 am to
QB - Bill Wade
RB - Frank Mordica
RB - Ralph Webb
Posted by Beau Fontenot
Member since Oct 2018
280 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:11 am to
These guys seem like "must haves" from several teams:

Georgia: Herschel
Tennessee: Peyton
Arkansas: McFadden
Texas: Vince Young
Florida: Tim Tebow
Ole Miss: Eli
Miss State: Dak
OU: Billy Sims
Auburn: Bo
South Carolina: George Rogers
Kentucky: Babe Parilli


LSU is tougher, because you have to choose between Daniels or Burrow. I guess you go with Billy Cannon. Missouri is so unspectacular. I guess you're left with Roger Wherli.
Alabama has so many greats it's hard to say. I'm tempted to go with Henry, but Najee Harris is the all time leading rusher. And #1 for passing is not who you'd think. It's McCarron.
Posted by VerlanderBEAST
Member since Dec 2011
19151 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:15 am to
quote:

While at UGA...

QB - Aaron Murray
RB - Herschel Walker
RB - Nick Chubb

While in the NFL...

QB - Matt Stafford
RB - Terrell Davis
RB - Todd Gurley
Walker was better in the League than Gurley
Posted by Fearless and True
N Carolina
Member since Aug 2022
1141 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:17 am to
quote:

RB - Reggie Cobb
RB -Chuck Webb

I well remember the ESPN graphic of a cobweb the night UT beat our Top 10 team 21-14.
Posted by morganwadefan
TN
Member since May 2023
1121 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 2:53 pm to
quote:

QB-John Bond RB-Keifer McGee (RIP) RB-Anthony Dixon (10th all time in SEC rush yards)


Hard to argue there. Keffer was stuck behind Bouie and Davis for one season. Third in the nation in rushing when he tore his knee at South Carolina.
He was my fav MSU football player of all time. Met him on campus and asked him about playing time as a freshman. He just smiled and said it was all God’s plan. He was so humble and kind. He worked hard in the classroom and on the field.
Also, no slight to poster, but I remember so many articles written both during and after his playing days and his first name has been misspelled hundreds of times.
Keffer Lemond McGee 3/21/75 - 8/5/97
Posted by makersmark1
earth
Member since Oct 2011
18535 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:02 pm to
QB: Cam
TB: Bo
FB: Tucker Frederickson

Posted by HorninHouston
Member since Sep 2024
1251 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:03 pm to
easy one for us.

VY
Earl
Ricky
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
14141 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:14 pm to
quote:

FB - Peyton Hillis
RB - McFadden
RB - Felix Jones


That could be the best college backfield of all time.
Posted by wesfau
Member since Mar 2023
1222 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:23 pm to
Carnell Williams
Ronnie Brown
Brandon Jacobs
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
4625 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:23 pm to
Hold up, Murray over Stet?
Posted by Wishbone85
Member since Nov 2024
924 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:34 pm to
quote:

QB - Jalen Hurts
FB - Derrick Henry
RB - Shaun Alexander



So Alabamas best quarterback all time is an Oklahoma grad? He's 4th or 5th on the list at OU.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
42900 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:44 pm to
quote:

RB Kevin Faulk RB Leonard Fournette

Charles Alexander
Dalton Hilliard


Love them, but you can't put them ahead of a Heisman winner (Cannon) and NFL HOF (Taylor)
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
42900 posts
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:52 pm to
quote:

That could be the best college backfield of all time.


2001 U Clinton Portis, Frank Gore, Willis McGahee

2014 UGA Nick Chubb, Todd Gurley II, and Sony Michel

1996 Texas Priest Holmes, Rickey Williams, Shon Williams

1986 OK State Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders
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