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re: Who was the biggest college football star since 2000? No one hit wonders here
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:02 am to tigerfan84
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:02 am to tigerfan84
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Raghib Ismael(the rocket)
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maybe Peyton Manning
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since 2000
Well, to be fair to the guy who posted that, he may have assumed exceptions were OK since the OP immediately posted an exception when he said no one-hit wonders then listed Cam Newton.
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Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:03 am to Perception
Bush
Became a name as a Freshman, a star as a Sophomore, a superstar as a Junior.
In the Heisman voting, he had 784 first-place votes while Vince Young finished second with 79 first-place votes.
It was the largest margin of victory at the time since O.J. Which is no small feat considering the year Vince Young had but that's how big a star Bush was.
Became a name as a Freshman, a star as a Sophomore, a superstar as a Junior.
In the Heisman voting, he had 784 first-place votes while Vince Young finished second with 79 first-place votes.
It was the largest margin of victory at the time since O.J. Which is no small feat considering the year Vince Young had but that's how big a star Bush was.
This post was edited on 12/19/22 at 8:07 am
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:05 am to Perception
Any answer other than Tim Tebow is blasphemy. Hate that silly fricker, but he was on another level and had that radical Christian segment of the fan base dialed in daily.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:09 am to The Third Leg
No other player divided CFB fans like Tebow. It was a constant message board war.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:13 am to Zap Rowsdower
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Matt Leinart was pretty much on celebrity status in the early 2000s.
Two Heisman winners in the same backfield.
But the hype around Bush was insane.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:16 am to Perception
Tebow by far
"Star" does not necessarily denote "best" - although, TT would definitely be in that conversation, too.
"Star" does not necessarily denote "best" - although, TT would definitely be in that conversation, too.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:18 am to SoFla Tideroller
07-09 was nothing but TT knob-gobbling by the sports media and national media as a whole. He could do no wrong. That horrible, stupid fricking speech in 2008 that reads like a 5th grader that still eats crayons and licks paste wrote it is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. And of course Florida enshrined it, just like Tom Petty day.
This post was edited on 12/19/22 at 8:19 am
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:23 am to Perception
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Who was the biggest college football star since 2000?
I think it's gotta be Tebow. All of those guys were good, obviously, but when you talk about "star" how good they are doesn't factor into the equation as much.
For starters, Tebow was there 4 years unlike most those other guys (maybe all of htem actually? idk) so you simply had more exposure to him. Also this may sound weird to the younger folks here but social media 15 years ago wasn't really like it was now. I don't think a ton of people even had internet on their phones regularly at that point. So because of that people were a lot more tuned in to ESPN than probably now. And ESPN was infatuated wiht tebow. Message boards weren't enormous yet either. Idk if reddit even existed. TD was still pretty tiny compared to now. So all of the CFB content on the internet was more concentrated into the big sites like ESPN etc, and again...it was all tebow all the time.
Also you can point to a few speficic things with tebow that people swooned over. Obvikously his little speech after the 08 ole miss loss. His jump pass in whatever year that was. Him and Meyer also came along at a time when UF was kind of floundering post-spurrier.
Add it all up and I don't really think it's a comparison, especially wiht some of the guys on that list.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 8:38 am to Perception
Stetson Bennett
Posted on 12/19/22 at 9:00 am to Perception
The thread topic is biggest CFB star, not best player, or celebrity. It's Tim Tebow and it's not close. He's one of the biggest CFB stars to ever play thanks to the media. His star power was such that he actually went in the 1st round of the draft when he had no business even wearing an NFL uniform
Posted on 12/19/22 at 9:13 am to Perception
Tebow
Posted on 12/19/22 at 9:52 am to Corso
biggest star, not best player.
Tebow
Bush
Leinart
They are in their own category and no one really comes close to them.
Johnny Manziel is probably the closest though.
Manti Teo probably was close to that until he was outted as an idiot.
Tebow
Bush
Leinart
They are in their own category and no one really comes close to them.
Johnny Manziel is probably the closest though.
Manti Teo probably was close to that until he was outted as an idiot.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:01 am to Perception
Darren McFadden deserves a mention
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:15 am to Perception
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Tua Tagloviola
Too many injuries
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Johnny Manziel
After the Heisman year, he tailed off a bit
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Baker Mayfield Deshaun Watson
These two were outstanding players, but not near the level of “biggest star”
You fricked up by not putting Vince Young in here. This discussion is all about Vince, Bush, and Tebow in my opinion. That was a great era for CFB.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:17 am to DownSouthCrawfish
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No other player divided CFB fans like Tebow. It was a constant message board war.
Looking back, I feel guilty for hating on him. Granted, my dislike was solely because he played for UF. He seems like an amazing dude, and CFB would be much better off with more guys like him.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:21 am to DownSouthCrawfish
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No other player divided CFB fans like Tebow.
the thing about all that is that I don't really think people actively hated tebow all that much, it was the media love affair and shoving him down our throats 24/7 that pissed people off.
Aside from being good, and successful, and playing for florida (all naturally things that would make you dislike or cheer against a guy), he was a pretty decent standup dude. So all the tebow "hate" from the masses was jkust because you couldn' even turn on a TV wihtout hearing tebowtebowtebowtebowetbow nonstop. Taht got really fricking annoying.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:26 am to WaterLink
Agreed. He wasn’t a STAR so to speak because he played at Arkansas. But he was a beast on the field.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:26 am to Perception
Johnny Football was hanging with Lebron and many other celebrities. In terms of popularity he was the STAR for two years.
Tebow also obviously was a legend walking. Bush, Young and Burrow as well. Bush probably a little more because it was peak USC.
Tebow also obviously was a legend walking. Bush, Young and Burrow as well. Bush probably a little more because it was peak USC.
This post was edited on 12/19/22 at 10:27 am
Posted on 12/19/22 at 10:50 am to dukke v
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Agreed. He wasn’t a STAR so to speak because he played at Arkansas. But he was a beast on the field.
Back to back Heisman runner up. He wasn't a celebrity type of star per se but I remember a brief period when a lot of HS teams started running the Wildcat a lot because of what they were doing in Fayetteville.
Posted on 12/19/22 at 12:01 pm to WaterLink
The answer is Tebow. I think a better question is whose done the most with the least.
I nominate Jesse Palmer.
I nominate Jesse Palmer.
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