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The OFFICIAL 2017 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread
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If you get into this college football shyt Bucci, you in it FOR LIFE
I won't be able to call it amateur hour anymore.
.I watch a LOT of NFL, but I never get the chance to watch much college football. Going to try and watch a lot more this year though.
I'm surprised that NCAA didn't try to come after Chad Thomas. I guess that they heard that soul and was like this dude got some heat.
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Silkk
Can't Change My Damn Avi :beli:
You a ucla fan nowI won't be able to call it amateur hour anymore.
I watch a LOT of NFL, but I never get the chance to watch much college football. Going to try and watch a lot more this year though.
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
The 10 best rushers in college football
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10. Jarvion Franklin — Western Michigan
The Broncos will once again have one of the nation’s best running back tandems with Franklin and Jamauri Bogan in the backfield. Zach Terrell threw for more than 12,000 yards and nearly 100 touchdowns in his Western Michigan career, posting a 62-13 TD-INT ratio in his last two years and helping the Broncos run the regular season table in 2016. But he’s not in that backfield anymore. After running for 1,551 yards and a whopping 24 scores as a freshman, Franklin was limited to 735 yards and five touchdowns as a sophomore in 2015 but bounced back with a 1,353-yard, 12-touchdown season last year. With another season like that, Franklin could become the 19th member of the 5,000-yard club. His 31.08 rush EPA (Expected Points Added) last year was No. 16 in the country and No. 4 among returning running backs.
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10. Jarvion Franklin — Western Michigan
The Broncos will once again have one of the nation’s best running back tandems with Franklin and Jamauri Bogan in the backfield. Zach Terrell threw for more than 12,000 yards and nearly 100 touchdowns in his Western Michigan career, posting a 62-13 TD-INT ratio in his last two years and helping the Broncos run the regular season table in 2016. But he’s not in that backfield anymore. After running for 1,551 yards and a whopping 24 scores as a freshman, Franklin was limited to 735 yards and five touchdowns as a sophomore in 2015 but bounced back with a 1,353-yard, 12-touchdown season last year. With another season like that, Franklin could become the 19th member of the 5,000-yard club. His 31.08 rush EPA (Expected Points Added) last year was No. 16 in the country and No. 4 among returning running backs.
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9. Saquon Barkley — Penn State
Barkley exploded for 1,496 yards and 18 touchdowns on the ground last season, including 1,126 rush yards over his last nine games, averaging better than six yards per carry during that span. He capped off a brilliant sophomore campaign with a 194-yard, two-score effort in the Rose Bowl against USC. Between Barkley and quarterback Trace McSorley — both legitimate Heisman Trophy candidates — the Nittany Lions will have one of the country’s best backfields and offenses in the nation.
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8. Ronald Jones II — USC
After running for only 285 yards in the Trojans’ first seven games last season, Jones exploded for 797 yards over his final six contests — going from 4.6 yards per carry to 6.9 (7.8 if you don’t include the Rose Bowl win over Penn State when he was held to 55 yards on 20 carries). Jones has rushed for more than 2,000 yards over the last two seasons while sharing the rushing workload with the recently departed Justin Davis. The third-best running back prospect in the country coming out of high school in 2015, according to the 247Sports’ Composite player rankings, Jones had 16.75 rush EPA (Expected Points Added) while averaging 0.10 EPA per carry.
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7. Damarea Crockett — Missouri
Crockett was one of four running backs last year to average at least 6.9 yards per carry and run the ball 150 or more times — and the only freshman. After averaging only nine carries per game over his first six last year, Crockett averaged nearly 20 the rest of the way. A three-star prospect in the 2016 class, according to the 247Sports’ Composite player rankings, Crockett was one of 10 players in the nation with at least 30.0 rushing EPA (Expected Points Added) and 0.2 EPA per carry. Among Power 5 players returning this year averaging 0.2 or more EPA per carry, Crockett’s 30.81 rush EPA was the most in the country a year ago.
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6. Trayveon Williams — Texas A&M
A four-star prospect in the 2016 class, according to the 247Sports’ Composite player rankings, Williams broke the 1,000-yard mark as a freshman this past season. He averaged an impressive 6.8 yards per carry, helping the Aggies average 5.7 as a team — the ninth-best in the nation. Williams racked up 23.78 rush EPA (Expected Points Added), the fourth-most by a freshman in 2016, while averaging 0.16 EPA per carry. After breaking the 90-yard mark four times in the first six games of last season, he didn’t do it once in any of the last seven, going from 4.9 to 8.6 yards per carry from the first stretch to the other. But with Texas A&M breaking in a new quarterback, Williams could take on even more of a workload in 2017 after running the ball 156 times a year ago.
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5. Mike Weber — Ohio State
Weber redshirted in 2015 while Ezekiel Elliott ran for 1,821 yards, the fifth-most in the country, and 23 touchdowns before being drafted No. 4 overall by the Dallas Cowboys. As Elliott was on his way to running away with the NFL rushing title, Weber made it five years in a row for Ohio State producing a 1,000-yard rusher. That’s despite being held to 50 yards combined in his last two games against Michigan and Clemson but Weber did still put up 24.06 rush EPA (Expected Points Added), No. 32 in the country and the third-most by a freshman last season.
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4. Bo Scarbrough — Alabama
Damien Harris ran for more yards. Jalen Hurts ran for more touchdowns. But by season’s end, Bo Scarbrough established himself as the best rusher on Alabama’s always-stacked roster. The Crimson Tide will arguably have the nation’s best group of runners in the country as Harris and Hurts return, along with Josh Jacobs and B.J. Emmons, a pair who combined for 740 yards and 6.2 yards per carry last season. Along with early enrollee Najee Harris, Alabama has four running backs who were among the top three running backs in the country coming out of high school, according to the 247Sports’ Composite player rankings. That doesn’t even include Scarbrough, a former five-star prospect who was classified as an athlete in the 2014 class. He never had more than 11 carries in a game until after Thanksgiving last season, then had at least that many in each of his last four games — a stretch during which he averaged 7.2 yards per carry and scored six times and one that began with the Iron Bowl, followed by the SEC title game against Florida and two College Football Playoff games. Scarbrough had 30.79 rush EPA (Expected Points Added), No. 19 in the country, and averaged 0.25 EPA per carry. That makes him one of only three Power 5 returning running backs who had at least 30 rush EPA and that many EPA per carry in 2016.
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3. Justin Jackson — Northwestern
Already with more than 4,000 career rushing yards, Jackson should be Northwestern’s all-time leading rusher by the end of September and could crack the Top 10 of the FBS all-time list. He will likely become the 17th player with at least 1,000 carries in his career and only the third to do so in the last decade, with a chance to become only the third to ever run it at least 1,200 times. The Wildcats workhorse ran for 1,524 yards and 15 touchdowns last season — with the rest of his team combining for only 467 yards and seven scores on the ground as Northwestern averaged only 3.97 yards per carry as a team, No. 98 in the nation. After averaging 4.5 yards per carry and topping 125 yards twice in his first nine games last year, Jackson ran for 6.3 yards per carry in his last four, topping the 125-yard mark during that stretch.
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2. Myles Gaskin — Washington
Gaskin has been one of the most productive and consistent running backs in the country the last two seasons. He has averaged nearly 100 yards per game in his career so far (99.1, to be precise), topping the century mark 14 times in 27 contests. Gaskin rushed for 1,373 yards and 10 touchdowns last year while averaging an impressive 5.8 yards per carry. His 27.67 rush EPA (Expected Points Added) was No. 28 in the country — the second-most by an underclassman running back with at least 175 carries last season — and he averaged 0.12 EPA per carry. Gaskin and quarterback Jake Browning were instrumental in getting the Huskies to the Playoff and both come back this year. That makes Washington a legitimate chance to get back to the CFP again in 2017.
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1. Derrius Guice — LSU
Guice went into last season as the backup to the Heisman favorite, Leonard Fournette, who was selected No. 4 overall by the Jaguars in this year’s NFL Draft. But it was Guice who led the team — and SEC — in rushing. He averaged a whopping 7.6 yards per carry, the third-most by a player who ran the ball at least 150 times last season and the most by a returning player. Guice topped 150 rushing yards in five games last season, not including the 138-yard effort he ended the year with in the Citrus Bowl win over Louisville. That capped a four-game stretch during which Guice ran for 758 yards (189.5 per game). He racked up 32.96 rush EPA (Expected Points Added), the 10th-most in the country and the most by an underclassman running back, while averaging 0.18 EPA per carry.
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Barkley at #9?The 10 best rushers in college football
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9. Saquon Barkley — Penn State
Barkley exploded for 1,496 yards and 18 touchdowns on the ground last season, including 1,126 rush yards over his last nine games, averaging better than six yards per carry during that span. He capped off a brilliant sophomore campaign with a 194-yard, two-score effort in the Rose Bowl against USC. Between Barkley and quarterback Trace McSorley — both legitimate Heisman Trophy candidates — the Nittany Lions will have one of the country’s best backfields and offenses in the nation.
Writer should be reassigned to cover NIAA football for that shytBarkley at #9?
RammerJammer
#RollTide #TSC #RiseUp #BullsNation #RIPKobe
Man I hope Bo can stay healthy this year.
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Why y'all sleep on Harris so much? Bo showed up in some big games but I thought he was the more consistent back last year
malbaker86
Gators
I won't be able to call it amateur hour anymore.
I watch a LOT of NFL, but I never get the chance to watch much college football. Going to try and watch a lot more this year though.
Bruh we'll get you right this year no doubt. shyt is so
cause games be on 24/7 and @Silkk & @Big Boss always holding down the thread on the late Saturday night for the west coast games 
.But yea, stay active in this thread cause it stay filled with fukkery. Im not even gonna @ him, but just watch out for the reckless Tennessee talk from Swag
List is about right...Barkley is shockingly overrated.
Weber - 26 yards :applause:
Jackson - 25 yards :applause:
Run the ball vs Michigan brehs :Pephaha:
Barkley - 59 yards :applause:
Weber - 26 yards :applause:
Jackson - 25 yards :applause:
Run the ball vs Michigan brehs :Pephaha:
malbaker86
Gators
I think Jacobs is the one that's really slept on.
Rigby.
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Pettway was the leading rusher per game in the SEC and had 1200+ yards and he only played like 5 games, but he's worse than a guy who plays on WESTERN MICHIGAN
and I had Franklin on my fantasy team, I know what he's about, but he got hurt, they inserted the backup and he put up the same numbers. I also dropped him and started that backup the two or so games he didn't play. That team's just built for backs to put up stats
and I had Franklin on my fantasy team, I know what he's about, but he got hurt, they inserted the backup and he put up the same numbers. I also dropped him and started that backup the two or so games he didn't play. That team's just built for backs to put up stats