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Ivan Maisel's Players of the Century
As part of CNNSI.com's special look at college football as it enters a new century, Sports Illustrated senior writer Ivan Maisel has named his top player of the century past at each of the 115 Division I-A school. Check his pick for your school, then see what our readers thought.
School	Player	School	Player
ATLANTIC COAST		INDEPENDENTS con't
Clemson	Terry Kinard, S, 1979-82	La. Tech	Terry Bradshaw, QB, 1967-69
Duke	Clarkston Hines, WR, 1986-89	Middle Tennessee	Joe Campbell, TB, 1988-91
Florida State	Charlie Ward, QB, 1990-93	Navy	Roger Staubach, QB, 1962-64
Georgia Tech	Joe Hamilton, QB, 1996-99	Notre Dame	John Lujack, B, 1943, 46-47
Maryland	Randy White, DT, 1972-74	MID-AMERICAN
North Carolina	Lawrence Taylor, LB, 1977-80	Akron	Jason Taylor, DE, 1993-96
North Carolina State		Ball State	Brad Maynard, P, 1993-96
Virginia	Bill Dudley, B, 1939-41	Bowling Green	Jim Ritcher, C, 1976-79
Wake Forest	Brian Piccolo, RB , 1962-64	Buffalo	Gerry Philbin, DE, 1961-63
BIG EAST		Central Michigan	Brian Pruitt, TB, 1992-94
Boston College	Doug Flutie, QB, 1981-84	Eastern Michigan	Ron Johnson, DB, 1974-77
Miami	Bennie Blades, S, 1985-87	Kent State	Jack Lambert, LB, 1971-73
Pittsburgh	Hugh Green, DE, 1977-80	Marshall	Randy Moss, WR, 1995-96
Rutgers	Paul Robeson, E, 1915-18	Miami	Travis Prentice, RB 1996-99
Syracuse	Jim Brown, B, 1954-56	Northern Illinois	LeShon Johnson, TB, 1990-93
Temple	Paul Palmer, RB, 1983-86	Ohio	Vince Costello, LB, 1950-52
Virginia Tech	Michael Vick, QB 1999-	Toledo	Mel Long, DT, 1969-71
West Virginia	Major Harris, QB, 1988-90	Western Michigan	Jerome Persell, RB, 1976-78
BIG TEN		MOUNTAIN WEST
Indiana	Anthony Thompson, TB, 1986-89	Air Force	Chad Hennings, DT, 1984-1987
Illinois	Red Grange, B 1923-25	BYU	Ty Detmer, QB, 1988-91
Iowa	Nile Kinnick, B, 1937-39	Colorado State	Greg Myers, DB, 1992-95
Michigan	Bennie Oosterbaan, E, 1925-27	New Mexico	Terance Mathis, WR, 1985-87, '89
Michigan State	Bubba Smith, DE, 1964-66	San Diego State	Marshall Faulk, RB, 1992-93
Minnesota	Bronko Nagurski, T, 1927-29	UNLV	Randall Cunningham, QB, 1982-84
Northwestern	Otto Graham, QB, 1941-43	Utah	Scott Mitchell, QB, 1987-89
Ohio State	Archie Griffin, TB, 1972-75	Wyoming	Marcus Harris, WR, 1993-96
Penn State	Mike Reid, DT, 1966, 68-69	PACIFIC-10
Purdue	Rod Woodson, DB, 1983-86	Arizona	Rob Waldrop, DT, 1990-93
Wisconsin	Ron Dayne, RB, 1996-99	Arizona State	John Jefferson, SE, 1974-77
BIG 12		California	Les Richter, G, 1949-51
Baylor	Mike Singletary, LB, 1977-80	Oregon	Mel Renfro, HB, 1961-63
Colorado	Joe Romig, G, 1959-61	Oregon State	Terry Baker, QB, 1960-62
Iowa State	Troy Davis, RB 1994-96	Stanford	Ernie Nevers, B, 1923-25
Kansas	Gale Sayers, B, 1962-64	UCLA	Kenny Easley, S, 1977-80
Kansas State	Lynn Dickey, QB, 1968-70	USC	O.J. Simpson, TB 1967-68
Missouri	Kellen Winslow, TE, 1976-78	Washington	Steve Emtman, DT, 1989-91
Nebraska	Rich Glover, DT, 1970-72	Washington State	Ryan Leaf, QB, 1994-97
Oklahoma	Lee Roy Selmon, DT, 1972-75	SOUTHEASTERN
Oklahoma State	Barry Sanders, RB, 1986-88	Alabama	Lee Roy Jordan, LB, 1960-62
Texas	Ricky Williams, RB 1995-98	Arkansas	Billy Ray Smith, Jr. 1979-82
Texas A&M	John David Crow, B, 1955-57	Auburn	Bo Jackson, RB, 1982-85
Texas Tech	Zach Thomas, LB, 1992-95	Florida	Danny Wuerffel, QB, 1993-96
BIG WEST		Georgia	Herschel Walker, RB, 1980-82
Arkansas State	Bill Bergey, LB, 1965-68	Kentucky	Bob Gain, OT, 1947-50
Boise State	Randy Trautman, DT, 1980-81	LSU	Billy Cannon, B, 1957-59
Idaho	John Friesz, QB, 1985-89	Mississippi	Archie Manning, QB, 1968-70
New Mexico State	Charley Johnson, QB, 1958-60	Mississippi St.	Johnie Cooks, LB, 1977-78, 80-81
North Texas	Joe Greene, DT, 1966-68	South Carolina	George Rogers, RB, 1977-80
Utah State	Merlin Olsen, T, 1959-61	Tennessee	Peyton Manning, QB, 1994-97
CONFERENCE USA		Vanderbilt	Carl Hinkle, C, 1935-37
Army	(tie) Doc Blanchard, B, 1944-46	WESTERN ATHLETIC
	Glenn Davis, B, 1943-46	Fresno State	Trent Dilfer, QB, 1991-93
Cincinnati	Greg Cook, QB, 1966-68	Hawaii	Jason Elam, K, 1989-92
East Carolina	Robert Jones, LB, 1988-91	Nevada	Frank Hawkins, TB, 1977-80
Houston	Andre Ware, 1987-89	Rice	Trevor Cobb, RB, 1989-92
Louisville	John Unitas, QB, 1951-54	San Jose State	Leroy Zimmerman, B/P, 1937-1939
Memphis	Dave Casinelli, RB, 1960-63	SMU	Doak Walker, B, 1945, 47-49
Southern Miss	Ray Guy, P, 1970-72	TCU	Sammy Baugh, QB, 1934-36
Tulane	Shaun King, QB, 1995-98	Tulsa	Howard Twilley, WR, 1963-65
UAB	Josh Evans, DT, 1991-94	UTEP	Jess Whittenton, QB, 1952-55
INDEPENDENTS
Central Florida	Daunte Culpepper, QB, 1995-98
Connecticut	John Dorsey, LB, 1980-83
La.-Lafayette	Brian Mitchell, QB, 1986-89
La.-Monroe	Gary Reasons, LB, 1978-81

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