Barry Sanders' Heisman Trophy winning senior season at Oklahoma State:
344 carries, 2,628 yards, 7.6 yards per carry, 238.9 yards per game, 37 touchdowns, four 300 yard games
This is the most ridiculous season in college football history and will never come close to being matched or broken. Sanders scored at least twice in every game he played. He had four or more touchdowns in 6 games. His least productive game of the season was a 25 carry, 154 yard, 2 TD performance against Missouri. Hard to say what his best game was. Barry had a 332 yard, 4 TD day against Texas Tech. Sanders must have had it in for the state of Kansas. In his two games in '88 against KU and K-State, Barry rushed for 632 yards and 8 touchdowns. Oh, and none of the previous stats account for the bowl game Sanders played in that year, where he rushed for 222 yards and 5 touchdowns...in three quarters. He sat out the fourth. The Oklahoma State coaches were not stupid. They gave Sanders the ball 31 times a game...for the whole season.
Totally unreal. And completely deserving of this weeks stat. Godspeed.
June 17, 2008
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Yeah but he's no Darren McFadden (at this point you know who this the "anonymous" poster is). In all seriousness though, I was frusturated with the "breaking" of Sanders' rushing yards record by Kevin Smith last year in the bowl games. You've got to compare apples to apples, not apples to hamburgers (an indication of how much different aka better Sanders was).
Agreed. It's such bullcrap that the NCAA all of a sudden decided a couple of years ago to allow bowl game stats to a players career and single season totals. I've got nothing against Kevin Smith, who was just running the rock. But the NCAA are just a bunch of money grubbing whuuures who think that people breaking records will increase atteandance, so they made it easier to break records. Like many other aspects of the NCAA, shameless.
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