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OrangeAfroMan

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Best Season Ever
« on: July 19, 2024, 10:48:17 PM »
1988 Barry Sanders - RB...344 carries for 2,628 yds and 37 TD (plus 27 car for 222 yds and 5 TD in bowl) = 373 carries for 2,850 yds and 44 TDs
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2019 Joe Burrow - QB...402 comp on 527 att (76.3%) for 5,671 yds, 60 TD and 6 INT (plus 368 rush yds with 5 TD)
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1988 Derrick Thomas - LB...27 sacks for 204 yds in losses (plus 12 other TFL for 46 yds in losses)...44 QB pressures and led team with 88 total tackles
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1998 Troy Edwards - WR...140 receptions for 1,996 yards and 27 TD (plus 227 yds rushing with 3 TD)...includes a 21-catch, 405 yd game vs top-5 Nebraska

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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2024, 10:57:06 PM »
tough call
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2024, 11:28:23 PM »
I am going with Barry Sanders because I am older than most here, and he was really good with quick speed, including laterally, and outstanding vision. Plus, I couldn't throw the ball, so I identify with RBs more.

That said, Joe Burrow had one of the best seasons in college football history.
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2024, 11:31:36 PM »
I heard a great story. Sylvester Croom was out of spring practice before Thomas’s first year. He was out on a track next to the football field because he either enrolled Early for track and field or was an All-Star high school senior practicing there for some reason.

Thomas was recruited nominally as a tight end. Croom saw how low he could get in his stance before firing off the blocks and basically said “Oh, that’s an All-American pass rusher who I will make sure isn’t playing offense.”
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2024, 11:34:30 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 19, 2024, 10:57:06 PM
tough call
easily Barry Sanders imo. those #'s he put up were in 11 games. 

you add his Holiday Bowl #'s that stat line is 2,850 rushing yards, 42 rushing touchdowns and 7.7 YPC in 12 games. that is simply put....f*cking insane.

greatest pure talent i have ever seen in the game of football. that guy could just do things nobody else could do.
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2024, 08:00:27 AM »
Jeaux Burreaux played in the SEC-SEC-SEC. During a 15-0 Championship Run. JB led his Bayou Bengals thru some treacherous waters
During the season teams ranked position when LSU played/defeated them.
No 9 Texas
No 7 FLA
No 9 Auburn
No 3 Alabama
SEC CCG
No 4 Georgia
CFPOs
No 4 Sooners
No 3 Clemson

🏆Jeaux Burreaux🏆
Best Season Ever

Barry class act - great season, didn't face nearly the same level of compitiion,weight of responsibility with much more on the line
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2024, 08:02:28 AM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on July 19, 2024, 11:28:23 PM
I am going with Barry Sanders because I am older than most here, and he was really good with quick speed, including laterally, and outstanding vision. Plus, I couldn't throw the ball, so I identify with RBs more.

That said, Joe Burrow had one of the best seasons in college football history.
Thomas was also 1988

Quote from: Mdot21 on July 19, 2024, 11:34:30 PM
easily Barry Sanders imo. those #'s he put up were in 11 games.

you add his Holiday Bowl #'s that stat line is 2,850 rushing yards, 42 rushing touchdowns and 7.7 YPC in 12 games. that is simply put....f*cking insane.

greatest pure talent i have ever seen in the game of football. that guy could just do things nobody else could do.
I'm leaning this way, but........ great seasons by Thomas and Burrow
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2024, 08:12:00 AM »
I might go with Burrow but I think as a QB, another great one might come along and surpass his accomplishments

Level of competition hurts Edwards.  I watched the Nebraska game.  Nebraska wasn't great defensively against the pass that season and had a comfortable lead 35-6 at the half
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2024, 08:28:47 AM »
It's about ONE season not what might come along years after. Sanders was specatacular but didn't share near the QBs responsibility to perform under pressure - in a season such as that
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2024, 08:33:49 AM »
Okie St never has that type of pressure

but, I voted Sanders anyway
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2024, 09:01:30 AM »
If that was the Bugeaters JB led to lofty heights you wouldn't have
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2024, 09:18:46 AM »
would have been MUCH more impressive with the Huskers roster and WR corp
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2024, 09:28:33 AM »
JB made it happen wasn't Ogreman he was shown the door again
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Re: Best Season Ever
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2024, 10:35:49 AM »
He was accompanied on offense by 1,400-yard running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and two 1,500-yard receivers, Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson, with the former winning the Biletnikoff Award as the best wide receiver in the country. The Tigers' offensive line won the Joe Moore Award as the nation's best offensive line unit.

Thaddeus Moss at TE - Rec -47 yards -570 Avg -12.1 TDs -4
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