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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Re: It would be difficult enough if Auburn merely had to replace its starting backfield. But there's more to it than that. Tailbacks Carnell Williams and Ronnie Brown will be high on NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue's draft day dance card.
Quarterback Jason Campbell won 31 games and finished his career as the Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
"The best overall backfield in college football in the last 50 years," coach Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday. Gee, coach, don't hold back. The best? Fifty years?
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=2008666
Anyone agree with Tubberville that Williams and Brown was the best college backfield in the last 50 years?
I would take Ohio State's 1975 Archie & Pete over them. You could also include the QB (Cornelius Greene) and flanker (Brian Baschnagel) to complete the entire backfield.
For what it's worth I'd take Penn State's 1971 backs of Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris over Williams and Brown.
Of course it was over 50 years ago, but Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside may be the greatest backfield of all time. Glenn Davis was the elusive "Mr. Outside" to fullback Felix "Doc" Blanchard's "Mr. Inside" on the greatest Army teams. The Cadets were undefeated national champions in 1944 and 1945 and undefeated with a tie in 1946, the year Davis won the Heisman. Blanchard had won the Heisman in 1945. In those Davis-Blanchard years, Army went 27-0-1.
There are problably a couple dozen backfields that were better than Williams and Brown.
Quarterback Jason Campbell won 31 games and finished his career as the Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
"The best overall backfield in college football in the last 50 years," coach Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday. Gee, coach, don't hold back. The best? Fifty years?
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=2008666
Anyone agree with Tubberville that Williams and Brown was the best college backfield in the last 50 years?
I would take Ohio State's 1975 Archie & Pete over them. You could also include the QB (Cornelius Greene) and flanker (Brian Baschnagel) to complete the entire backfield.
For what it's worth I'd take Penn State's 1971 backs of Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris over Williams and Brown.
Of course it was over 50 years ago, but Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside may be the greatest backfield of all time. Glenn Davis was the elusive "Mr. Outside" to fullback Felix "Doc" Blanchard's "Mr. Inside" on the greatest Army teams. The Cadets were undefeated national champions in 1944 and 1945 and undefeated with a tie in 1946, the year Davis won the Heisman. Blanchard had won the Heisman in 1945. In those Davis-Blanchard years, Army went 27-0-1.
There are problably a couple dozen backfields that were better than Williams and Brown.