Top five biggest college football stars?

Teenaged Huggy remembers thinking Walker could have played in the NFL as a freshman.

 

Dupree 1982 163 1,393 8.5 12 1 23 23.0
Walker 1980 274 1616 5.9 15 7 70 10.0

 

Man, I can't imagine what Campbell could have been if he could catch passes.

 

Best seasons? Sure.

Biggest star: No way. Nobody had heard of him until his breakthrough season.

 

These would top my list, though I'm not sure of the order.

 

Exactly and OK State had not yet moved into that upper echelon yet in terms of
respect.

 

As I mentioned a page back, the reason no one had heard of Barry Sanders until 1988 was Thurman Thomas.

Sanders was a back-up running back and kick returner until Thomas was gone.

By the way, the quarterback on those teams was Mike Gundy.

 

Was Pat Jones the coach then? Hell of a good guy.

 

Yes, he was the coach.

 

I was in elementary school, but I remember Billy Sims being an all-time great college player and a huge star.

 

Doug Flutie was the only player ever to get Boston to give a damn about college football. He was the city's biggest star, bigger than Larry Bird, when he was at BC. Should count for something.

 

And Hart Lee Dykes was one of his receivers.