Football is the ultimate team game. With 22 men competing on each individual play and usually around triple that number contributing periodically over the course of a game, no other sport can compare to that of the gladiators on the gridiron.
Yet as dependent as each football team is on the entirety of its two-deeps, it's still very much a sport of individual accolades, achievements and criticisms. Exceptional athletes can transcend the game on any given play and equally, one minor failure in discipline can spell doom for an entire unit.
But football, especially at the college level, is about more than just the athletes that play the game.