There was a lot (like a LOT!) going on yesterday, so this Barry Sanders news got a little bit buried. But if you — like me — didn’t know what was going on last night when the 11 best college football players of all time were honored during halftime of the title game, here’s what it was. ESPN came up with their top 150 list to honor the 150th anniversary of this stupid sport, and the top 11 were revealed on Monday (Baker Mayfield, by the way, was No. 150). Here’s an explanation of how this went down.
The game is made up of more than running backs, but the ability to burst through the line, to plant a foot in one direction and take off in another, has beguiled us from the earliest days of the sport.