Quick, someone name the top ten rushers in NCAA Division I-A history!
 

First one to answer correctly gets a prize.

Can be found at http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_event...ooks/#football
Check Divisions, find totals, for whatever record you seek. Total per Div, or between all divisions?

Top 10: Individual or team, Career, Season, or Game on Offense? Defense, rushing the QB--Sacks?

Dealing with the cleanup aftermath of a teenage flu episode. FUN!!!!!

Incorrect.

Career rushing yards?

Yes.

Ron Dayne
Ricky Williams
Herschel Walker

Tony Dorsett

Without looking I would have got 7 of the 10...


The seven that I knew for certain:

R.Dayne
R.Williams
T.Dorsett
L.Tomlinson
A.Griffin
H.Walker
Charles White

The three I didn't know are

Travis Prentice(Did know he has the most rushing TD breaking the record held by Indiana legend Anthony Thompson so I would have possibly thrown him out as a wild guess)

Ced Benson (another one that I would have possibly guessed)

and the last that I wouldn't have guessed in a million years is

Darren Lewis Texas A&M

Ron Dayne
Ricky Williams
Tony Dorsett
Charles White
Travis Prentice
Cedric Benson
Ladainian Tomlinson
Herschel Walker
Archie Griffin
Darren Lewis

Jessie Haynes?

Dangit... beat me to it...

Ron Dayne
Ricky Williams
Tony Dorsett
Charles White
Travis Prentice
Cedric Benson
LaDanian Tomlinson
Herschel Walker
Archie Griffin
Darren Lewis

Damnit!! I type too slow. :banghead:

Faulk would have been #1 all time had he stayed for his Sr year. Marshall that is...

NCAA includes other divs. beside 1. Semantics.....

None of you are correct.

This is the time in which the little gears in your heads begin to wonder why I, in particular, would posit such a challenge at this time, in particular.

i thought that one local kid brian shay or something was on it

After Psicosis hint, I'm going to guess that DeAngelo Williams cracked the list yesterday. Just a hunch.

Wouldn't the "I-A" in his question exclude those other divisions?

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NCAA Division I-A All-Time Leading Rushers
1. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin - 6,397
2. Ricky Williams, Texas - 6,279
3. Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh - 6,082
4. Charles White, USC - 5,598
5. Travis Prentice, Miami (Ohio) - 5,590
6. Cedric Benson, Texas - 5,540
7. LaDainian Tomlinson, TCU - 5,283
8. Herschel Walker, Georgia - 5,269
9. Archie Griffin, Ohio State - 5,177
10. DeAngelo Williams, Memphis - 5,145

With five regular season games remaining, DeAngelo needs just 586 all-purpose yards to break Ricky Williams' all-time record of 7,206 career all-purpose yards.

Yep...Williams had 4,062 coming into the season and got over Darrin Lewis' 5,012 yesteday.

Northwest Missouri State and Emporia State, their respective schools, are Division 2.

However at the time Brian Shay was the leader across all divisions of college football. Don't know if he still is.

So what's the scouting report on Williams? What kind of runner is he? How many years has he been playing? What kind of NFL potential? Is he a 1st round pick?

So what does cdcox win?

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http://media.putfile.com/TDeAngeloUTEP
http://media.putfile.com/DeAngeloUTEPremix
http://media.putfile.com/DloRun (at UCF, it was very humid and he was dehydrated; he didn't know this until he ran out of gas on the 100th yard of this jaunt; this, combined with the D's utter ineffectiveness, limited him to just 136 yards on 14 carries)

It's a secret.

Now you're just scaring me, Uncle Bad Touch.

Yes, it is.

Where will he be drafted?

I mean, no disrespect, I would expect you to think he was the greatest thing since sliced bread since that's your team, but what's the word on him? Is he going to go in the first round?

I know that Tomlinson probably had the same knocks on him, not being from a power conference and all. Does he beat up on superior teams too?

Curious about him, don't see much coverage.

I suspect Williams will have about the same NFL success as Prentice has had. Town team players you know.

Definitely looks to be a 1st round pick but the LT/Holmes comparison is a bit strong.

Reminds me a lot of Mike Cloud......Just kidding actually reminds me Tiki Barber...Very good speed, very quick and runs harder than his size would indicate. They don't use him that much in the passing game so I really don't know if he is anywhere near the pass catcher of Tiki however.

I kind of cast doubt on the prevailing thought on which running backs are going to be surefire feature backs in the NFL anyway. I mean, a guy like Priest Holmes came out of Texas unnoticed and has spent a few years as one of the best backs in the league. And at draft time LT had plenty of doubters because he had only played at TCU. Meanwhile, how many Curtis Enis's are out there.

It's almost as much of a crapshoot as the QB position, seems like. At the very least, a ton of potentially successful NFL backs probably slip through the cracks like Holmes almost did.

He could have declared after last season, and he would have gone in the first round. After agonizing over the decision and, incidentally, talking about it with Matt Leinart at the Wooden Cup ceremony in LA (both were finalists for the college award; Will Shields was a finalist for the pro one), he eventually announced at a press conference that it was the NFL versus Memphis, and, "Memphis won hands down."

Kiper had him right up there with Benson, Caddy, and Brown in the 2005 draft, and listed him as the #5 overall player and top running back for 2006.

He is the personification of "all-purpose back." He is an amazing runner, his vision and balance are incredible beyond the telling of it, he has a combination of speed and strength (and SPEED... and STRENGTH) that is simply indescribable... in short, he's okay. :D

In addition, Memphis lost 27 seniors, including the best QB in school history, the top WR, and four starting offensive linemen. On the first series of the season, junior QB Patrick Byrne went down for the year. In the third game, redshirt freshman QB Will Hudgens went down for the year. True freshman Billy Barefield didn't cut it, and with WR-turned-QB Mo Avery starting in the 35-20 win over Houston, Memphis has started 5 different QBs in 7 games, stretching back to the GMAC Bowl. Memphis is also missing upwards of 10 other starters, most of them long-term. Despite this, he's carried the whole team on his back, even with the target everyone has had on him from the national attention and Heisman hype.

Oh, and not to overload you with "he's so great," but he really is, off the field, as well. He's a good student and an exceptionally great representative of the school and the city.

Especially when the single most important trait a RB needs to possess for a RB to have success at the NFL is a good O Line in front of him and OC on the sideline. It is only the extremely rare back like a Barry Sanders, Walter Payton type that can overcome that key ingredient.

Don't just listen to me, listen to the Bob Loblaw from other places:

What's with the freaking Miami fans on a Jets website?

NFLDraftBlitz.com:

I've seen DeAngelo, time and time and time again. He is the real deal, wholly and completely.

Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio.

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NCAA Division I-A All-Time Leading Rushers
1. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin - 6,397
2. Ricky Williams, Texas - 6,279
3. Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh - 6,082
4. Charles White, USC - 5,598
5. Travis Prentice, Miami (Ohio) - 5,590
6. Cedric Benson, Texas - 5,540
7. DeAngelo Williams, Memphis - 5,371
8. LaDainian Tomlinson, TCU - 5,283
9. Herschel Walker, Georgia - 5,269
10. Archie Griffin, Ohio State - 5,177

NCAA Division I-A All-Time All-Purpose Yardage Leaders
Ricky Williams Texas, 1995-98 7206
Napoleon McCallum, Navy 1981-85 7172
Darrin Nelson Stanford, 1977-78, 80-81 6885
DeAngelo Williams, Memphis 2002- 6860
Kevin Faulk, LSU 1995-98 6833

346 yards away from Ricky Williams' I-A record for career all-purpose yardage.

Lead the nation in rushing? Check.
Have four 200+ yard games? Check.
Climb the all-time rushing leader charts? Check.
Rapidly approach the career all-purpose yardage record? Check.
Do all this with four different starting QBs in the span of six games? Check.