Best College RB Combo

Are Allen and White the only backfield to win two Heismans. And Larry Csonka and Floyd Little are two NFL Hall of Famers that played together at Syracuse. Can anyone else say that?

 

And Larry Csonka and Floyd Little are two NFL Hall of Famers that played together at Syracuse. Can anyone else say that?

The aforementioned Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders?

 

It was nice having Jamal Lewis and Travis Henry (17,000 NFL yards between them) on the same Tennessee team.

 

Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis played together at Army and won the Heisman in consecutive seasons.

Second part: Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas at Oklahoma State. (EDIT: Micro beat me to it).

 

Roger Craig and Mike Rozier deserve a mention.

 

The Pony Express had the best backfield money could buy.

 

Craig James - a Senate candidate less likeable than Ted Cruz.

 

1920s Sports editor: Goddamn, this is poetry.
2000s Sports editor: What the fuck is this shit!? Cut it down to 25 words or less and tell me the fucking score, Grantland!

 

In 1971 Dan Jenkins wrote the following lead for the Oklahoma/Nebraska game when they were both undefeated. SI included this in their greatest stories archives.

"In the land of the pickup truck and cream gravy for breakfast, down where the wind can blow through the walls of a diner and into the grieving lyrics of a country song on a jukebox—down there in dirt-kicking Big Eight territory—they played a football game on Thanksgiving Day that was mainly for the quarterbacks on the field and for self-styled gridiron intellectuals everywhere. The spectacle itself was for everybody, of course, for all of those who had been waiting weeks for Nebraska to meet Oklahoma, or for all the guys with their big stomachs and bigger Stetsons, and for all the luscious coeds who danced through the afternoons drinking daiquiris out of paper cups. But the game of chess that was played with bodies, that was strictly for the cerebral types who will keep playing it into the ages and wondering whether it was the greatest collegiate football battle ever. Under the agonizing conditions that existed, it well may have been."

I think that today that lead would be returned for the sexist remarks (luscious coeds?), the regional stereotypes (guys with bigger stomachs and bigger Stetsons?) and generally for being badly overwritten.

 

I present to you the 1990 Notre Dame running backs:
Jerome Bettis: Pro football hall of fame
Ricky Watters: 10,000 plus yards rushing in the nfl
Raghib Ismail: 5000 plus yards receiving in the nfl with consecutive 1,000 yard seasons.
Dorsey Levens: 5000 rushing in the nfl, pro bowl seaon; 100 yards in a super bowl.
Jeff Burris: converted to cornerback and was drafted in the first round.
Reggie Brooks: ran for 1,000 as a rookie.

Toss in Tony Brooks and Rodney Culver, who both played in the nfl as well.

 

1983 Auburn had Bo Jackson, Brent Fullwood and Lionel James.

 

Jim Brown and whoever was playing with him that day.