In honor of 22 days to go: My All-time Starting 22

Submitted by lunchboxthegoat on

In honor of 22 days to kickoff I had an idea to name the 22 all-time starters I've ever seen. These lists are dumb, but I find them fun to put together. Tried to avoid M bias but that's damn tough, obviously. 

 

Let me know what you think and submit your own. Or don't, I'm not the police. 

Mine: 

QB: Tommie Frazier (NUred) - Seemingly unstoppable and seemingly changed every game he was in. Eddie George is holding his Heisman for him. Consecutive national champion

RB: Barry Sanders (OkS) - The greatest college runningback of all time, hands down. 

OW: Denard Robinson (M) - Obviously a biased pick. But he was damn fun to watch and a great kid. 

TE: Mercedes Lewis (UCLA) - TD machine. ~2000 yards and 22TDs. Go-to weapon for his time in pasadena

LT: Orlando Pace (tOSU) - Legit tie for the most dominant OL I've ever watched with Jake Long. Just unreal. 

RT: Jake Long (M) - Larger than life, literally. Shocking this era of M has 0 MNCs to show for it with how good he made the entire line. 

LG: Steve Hutchinson (M) - Converted DL turned into an AA and 1st rd pick. '97 NC team. 

RG: Chance Warmack (ALA) - Just a mauler. Three BCS titles in four years. Unanimous AA '12. 

C:Barret Jones (ALA) - Staple of the Alabama OL during the  renaissance under Saban. Played almost every position along the line. 2 time AA. played the 2012 BCS NCG with 2 torn ligaments and a lisfranc injury and still manhandled Louis Nix. 

WR: Braylon Edwards (M) - If you saw the 2004 Michigan State game this makes perfect sense. 

WR: Michael Crabtree (TTU) - Him and Graham Harrell had Texas Tech at #2 for a spell. that play against UT to win it....wow. 

DE: Brandon Graham (M)- His hit on Glenn Winston. The fact that he was the only bright spot on the '08 defense. All Time Sacks leader

DE: Terrell Suggs (ASU)-  2002 statline: 24 Sacks, 31.5 TFL, 6 FF. Just a legendary season.

DT: Ndamakong Suh (NUred) - Should have won the Heisman his last year at Nebraska. As a DT. Unreal. 

DT: Glenn Dorsey (LSU) - Lott, Nagurski, Lombardi, Outland awards,  SEC DPOY, SEC champ, BCS champ, 

LB: Derrick Johnson (UT) - Big play machine. First round pick, dominant player appeared to cause a fumble every time he made a hit. 

LB: Dat Nguyen (ATM)- Led ATM in tackles 4 straight years, Averaged 10.5 tackles per game, 1995 SWC Newcomer of the year, 95-98 First team all B12. Bednarik, Lombardi, Lambert awards, AA, B12 DPOY

LB: Lavar Arrington (PSU) - A guy who you can boil down a single play to define how terrifying he was. 1998 PSU v. Illinois. HE LEAPED OVER THE LINE AND TACKLED THE FB IN THE BACKFIELD ON 4TH AND 1. 2X First team AA, 2X first team All B1G, butkis, lambert, bednarik awards

CB: Marcus Trufant (WSU) - No one scored a touchdown against him his last two years at WSU. Unremarkable teams (except for the 2003 team which lost the rose bowl). Four year starter. I just remember him being a very flashy player and he's always stuck wtih me. 

CB: Charles Woodson (M) - He did everything you can do at the college level. Its more impressive than you remember, trust me and even though this is a college only list: his NFL career just might be MORE impressive if that's even possible. 

S: Eric Berry (UTn) - Thrope award, 2x Tatum award, 2x Unanimous AA, 2X 1st team All SEC, SEC DPOY. JUST BEAT CANCER TO RETURN TO FOOTBALL. 

S: Roy Williams (OU) - Unanimous AA, 2X All B12, Nagurski, Thorpe, Tatum. Legendary performance in the RRR.   

Comments

goblue12820

August 12th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^

are you only doing guys you actually saw play? Not a bad list, but my glaring omissions would be Deion Sanders, Warren Sapp..at receiver i think Randy Moss, Larry Fitzgerald and Calvin Johnson would all be better choices. Id actually put Desmond and AC above of Braylon. Ed Reed was probably the best college safety i ever saw.

DrewGOBLUE

August 12th, 2015 at 7:32 PM ^

Even though MSU folks would feel highly disrespected by the lack of inclusion of any former Sparty players, Charles Rogers was pretty incredible there and could be a guy to consider.

Still, I'm very glad he opted for MSU and not UM (although I dunno if we even recruited him).

trueblueintexas

August 13th, 2015 at 5:21 PM ^

Let's say your general cutoff is the Barry Sanders era since he is the oldest person on this list. Here are just a few names to consider:

Jonathon Ogden - OT - UCLA

Tim Brown - WR - ND

Rocket Ismail - WR - ND

Michael Irvin - WR - Miami

Peyton Manning - QB - Tennessee

Ty - Detmer - QB - BYU

Russell Maryland - DT - Maryland

Jerome Brown - DT - Maryland

Steve Emtman - DT - Washington

Marvin Jones - LB - FSU

Derrick Brooks - LB - FSU

Derrick Thomas - LB - Alabama

Deion Sanders - DB - FSU

Ronnie Lott - DB - USC

Mark Carrier - DB - USC

Ed Reed - DB - Miami

Sean Taylor - DB - Miami

 

trueblueintexas

August 15th, 2015 at 4:38 AM ^

I don't know if Emtman was the best, but he had a hell of a game against Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Russell Maryland gets forgotten because there was so much talent around him, but man did he anchor the interior of that great Miami defense. He was a disrupter also, not just a plugger. For a single season it would be hard to not pick Suh. He was killing people.
Agreed on Woodson and Deion. I don't know who else you could even legitimately bring up as pure cornerbacks. Patrick Peterson, Rod Woodson??? Not even in the same ballpark in my opinion.
The argument regarding top two safeties gets far more interesting. Many options but Roy Williams would probably be one for sure.

HarbaughToKolesar85

August 14th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^

If we go purely off of college careers I think that Champ Bailey, Terrell Buckley, and Dre Bly warrant some consideration for the second spot. In the end I would probably still go with Deion second to Charles.