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re: Your School's Best All-time Backfield
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:15 am to Yellow Truck
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:15 am to Yellow Truck
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QB - Peyton Manning
RB - Jamal Lewis
RB - Travis Henry
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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 on 5/16/25 at 10:23 am to AUApostle
QB Joe Ferguson
RB Darren McFadden
RB Ben Cowins
RB Darren McFadden
RB Ben Cowins
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:28 am to madmaxvol
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.
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 on 5/16/25 at 10:30 am to Mstate
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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 on 5/16/25 at 10:40 am to AUApostle
LSU (per your ask on college & pro careers "all-time")
QB - Y.A. Tittle
RB - Jim Taylor
RB - Billy Cannon
QB - Y.A. Tittle
RB - Jim Taylor
RB - Billy Cannon
Posted on 5/16/25 at 10:53 am to AUApostle
Cam Newton, National Champion 2010
Bo Jackson, National Champion 1983
Carnell Wiliams, National Champion, 2004
Bo Jackson, National Champion 1983
Carnell Wiliams, National Champion, 2004
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:05 am to AUApostle
QB - Danny Wuerffel/Tim Tebow
RB - Emmitt Smith
RB - Fred Taylor
RB - Emmitt Smith
RB - Fred Taylor
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:09 am to AUApostle
QB - Bill Wade
RB - Frank Mordica
RB - Ralph Webb
RB - Frank Mordica
RB - Ralph Webb
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:11 am to AUApostle
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.
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 on 5/16/25 at 11:15 am to Darindawg
quote:Walker was better in the League than Gurley
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
Posted on 5/16/25 at 11:17 am to Yellow Truck
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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 on 5/16/25 at 2:53 pm to Mstate
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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 on 5/16/25 at 3:02 pm to AUApostle
QB: Cam
TB: Bo
FB: Tucker Frederickson
TB: Bo
FB: Tucker Frederickson
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:03 pm to AUApostle
easy one for us.
VY
Earl
Ricky
VY
Earl
Ricky
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:14 pm to Arkapigdiesel
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FB - Peyton Hillis
RB - McFadden
RB - Felix Jones
That could be the best college backfield of all time.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:23 pm to hogcard1964
Carnell Williams
Ronnie Brown
Brandon Jacobs
Ronnie Brown
Brandon Jacobs
Posted on 5/16/25 at 3:23 pm to Darindawg
Hold up, Murray over Stet?
Posted on 5/16/25 at 4:34 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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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 on 5/16/25 at 4:44 pm to TheDeathValley
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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 on 5/16/25 at 4:52 pm to hogcard1964
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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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