re: Top 50 College Football Players of the Past 50 Years

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Take out NFL HOFers who were clearly much better pros than college players

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I agree with this.

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like LT, Lott, Elway, Singletary, Bruce Smith and even Peyton Manning.

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I don't know if I agree with all the names, but only because I disagree with Manning, he was great at Tennessee, and I really have no recollection of the others college careers.

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Also QBs overrated due to their supporting cast like Wuerfful and Leinart.

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And here, I think you are letting their NFL performances affect your opinion. Systems and teams are what they are and part and parcel of the evaluation. Both guys were fantastic in college as players. Wuerfful, in particular, was the epitome of the great in college but sucks as a pro QB. Just my opinion of course.

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List is trash without

Rocket Ismail
Pat Fitzgerald
Michael Crabtree
Peter Warrick
Luke Kuechly
Ron Simmons
Jack Ham
or Chris Zorich

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Rocket was the first that came to mind for me, too, especially if they have Deion Sanders so high. Rocket was Reggie Bush-like in college.

I mean, I don't see how a program with three titles (and a fourth if you extend the time period a year) doesn't have at least one player on a list like this.

Tim Brown, Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Jerome Bettis, Ricky Watters, Zorich, Ross Browner, Bob Crable, Dave Casper, etc. could all be on there. Alan Page should definitely been in the top half of any list like this if it was stretched one more year.