Top 50 college running backs of all time, by Shiloh Carter of Yardbreaker.com. In alphabetical order, with stats when available. Considering college football has been played for almost 150 years, it’s interesting that 40% of young Mr. Carter’s list played in the past 20 years.
3905 36 Marcus Allen USC
5140 77 Montee Ball, Wisconsin
3843 53 Saquon Barkley, Penn State 2017
5540 64 Cedric Benson, Texas 2004 (who?)
1670 35 Doc Blanchard, Army 1946
2091 19 Jim Brown, Syracuse
3169 00 Reggie Bush, USC 2005
4443 40 Earl Campbell, Texas 1977
2639 29 John Cappelletti, Penn State 1973
4239 52 Ka’Deem Carey, Arizona (who?)
4195 00 Troy Davis, Iowa State (who?)
7125 71 Ron Dayne, Wisconsin 1999
4450 47 Eric Dickerson, SMU
6526 59 Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh 1976
3699 41 Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State
5562 62 Marshall Faulk, San Diego State 1992
3221 25 Mike Garrett, USC 1965
3369 36 Eddie George, Ohio State 1995
4915 45 Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin 2014
0000 00 Red Grange, Illinois 1923
4350 00 Archie Griffin, Ohio State
3591 28 Derrick Henry, Alabama 2015
4303 43 Bo Jackson, Auburn 1985
5082 57 LaMichael James, Oregon 2011
4715 50 Ed Marinaro, Cornell 1971
3764 00 Christian McCaffrey, Sanford 2015
4590 41 Darren McFadden, Arkansas
3928 57 Steve Owens, Oklahoma 1969
3600 65 Walter Payton, Jackson State 1974
4000 41 Adrian Peterson, Oklahoma
5596 73 Travis Prentice, Miami of Ohio 1999
6405 00 Donnel Pumphrey, San Diego State (who?)
4926 49 Ray Rice, Rutgers 2005
5091 00 George Rogers, South Carolina 1980
4780 49 Mike Rozier, Nebraska
2850 42 Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State 1988
3566 45 Billy Sims, Oklahoma
3423 36 OJ Simpson, USC 1968
3928 36 Emmitt Smith, Florida
4979 45 Darren Sproles, Kansas State 2003
4847 43 Thurman Thomas, Oklahoma State 1986
5299 67 Anthony Thompson, Indiana (4 years)
1900 00 Jim Thorpe, Carlisle 1912
5387 56 LaDainian Tomlinson, TCU 1999 (4 years)
0000 00 Doak Walker, SMU 1948
5259 52 Herschel Walker, Georgia 1982 (3 years)
5387 53 Charles White, USC (4 years)
3800 60 DeAngelo Williams, Memphis
0000 00 Ricky Williams, Texas 1998
5154 52 Garrett Wolfe, Northern Illinois 2006
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