SI's NCAA team of the decade

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/10/cfb.all.decade.team/index.html

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Wow, Tebow over Vince Young?????

[tribe_pride]

Wow, Tebow over Vince Young?????

And I have to assume that it's not even close.

Tebow played 3+ years while Young played 2.5 years.

Overall stats:

Young - 6,040 yds passing, 44 passing TDs, 28 Ints, 3,127 rushing yds, 37 rushing TDs
Tebow - 8,457 yds passing, 84 passing TDs, 15 Ints, 2,833 rushing yds, 56 rushing TDs.

Young may have had the best individual season though (just not the better college career).

And Tebow has 2 national championships to Young's 1. (although Tebow was not big during the 1st national championship season)

This is not to say that Tebow will be a better Pro QB than Young. Just that he was a better more successful QB than Young in college.

[GeauxColonels]

I would definitely put Tebow over Young.

[Hoyadestroya85]

Kenny Dorsey over both, All this BS Tim Tebow gets about being a "great leader" is garbage. Ken Dorsey never gets half his due. He had to deal with numbskulls like Shockey, Kellen Winslow II, Santana Moss, Bryant McKinnie and Clinton Portis. He went 38-2* (one of his losses was a stolen win) and won as many national championships as a starter as Tim Tebow did and was robbed of another. I don't know, something about Tim Tebow bothers me, probably the fact that he talks like a robot.

It's also somewhat ridiculous that there's only two players from The U, there should at least be one more (Devin Hester) They only wanted an excuse to put Wes Welker on that list.

[Reign of Terrier]

Kenny Dorsey over both, All this BS Tim Tebow gets about being a "great leader" is garbage. Ken Dorsey never gets half his due. He had to deal with numbskulls like Shockey, Kellen Winslow II, Santana Moss, Bryant McKinnie and Clinton Portis. He went 38-2* (one of his losses was a stolen win) and won as many national championships as a starter as Tim Tebow did and was robbed of another. I don't know, something about Tim Tebow bothers me, probably the fact that he talks like a robot.

It's also somewhat ridiculous that there's only two players from The U, there should at least be one more (Devin Hester) They only wanted an excuse to put Wes Welker on that list.

From the above i can tell 2 things 1) your a miami fan and 2) you're still po.ed about that pi call against ohio state

[seantaylor]

Vince Young wouldn't have made my 3rd team QB.

[Hoyadestroya85]

From the above i can tell 2 things 1) your a miami fan and 2) you're still po.ed about that pi call against ohio state

I wasn't a Miami fan at the time but i watched college football.. I basically have always hated Ohio State and the fact that they got handed that game on a silver platter still annoys me to all hell. I really only became a fan of the U after the Miami-FIU brawl. My friend who has always been a Miami fan turned me on to them. I'm just tired of the media slobbing all over Tim Tebow's knob when there are several other quarterbacks this decade with similar resumes. I don't care what people say, he's not even in the top five of the greatest college football players ever.. "Experts" just get way too amped up about guys who are recent that they seem to forget guys like Archie Griffin, Barry Sanders, Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson and the greatest player never to win the Heisman, Archie Manning. Tim Tebow has been a great player but the fact that people have been calling him the greatest college football ever since after his junior year is somewhat ridiculous. It's sort of like how people forget to mention Tracy Ham or Jayson Foster when they talk about Armanti Edwards.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Tim Tebow is nothing more than a poor mans Tommy Frazier. He's a very talented college player but not the best of the best imo.

The 90's were a much better decade for QB's than this decade has been.

[813Jag]

Tim Tebow is nothing more than a poor mans Tommy Frazier. He's a very talented college player but not the best of the best imo.

The 90's were a much better decade for QB's than this decade has been.
I'm about as far from a tebow or gator fan as you can get, but that's a horrible comparison. Frazier wasn't any where near the passer Tebow was.and Tebow isn't the runner Frazier was. Tebow isn't the greatest passer in the world but he throws better than he gets credit for and he still holds the state record for td passes in a high school playoff game. Only comparison I see between the two is that neither will be seen as NFL qbs.

[JohnStOnge]

Kenny Dorsey over both, All this BS Tim Tebow gets about being a "great leader" is garbage. Ken Dorsey never gets half his due. He had to deal with numbskulls like Shockey, Kellen Winslow II, Santana Moss, Bryant McKinnie and Clinton Portis. He went 38-2* (one of his losses was a stolen win) .

Obligatory commentary whenever someone asserts that Ohio State's win over Miami in the 2002/2003 BCS championship game was "stolen:"

The interference call was questionable. However, the officials got Miami IN to overtime by making a bad call as well as two bad no calls on third down during Ohio State's last possession of regulation. The intended receiver was held twice on the play. One infraction, where the Miami defender grabbed his jersey and stretched it way out, was particularly obvious. Then the Ohio State receiver caught the ball in bounds for a first down and was called out of bounds. Had the instant replay rule been in place at the time, it's highly likely that the officials would've been reversed on the play.

Anyway, if the officials would either have called either one of the two holding penalties that occured on the same play or made the correct call on the reception Ohio State would've had a first down with about 2 minutes, 20 seconds left and Miami with one time out left.

Officials make bad calls sometimes. They miss calls they should've made. But Ohio State did not have a net advantage in the officiating in that game. The TV guys noticed the interference call in overtime and made a big deal out of it while they did not make a big deal out of it when, on the last Ohio State third down of regulation, a Miami defender was hanging onto the Ohio State receiver's jersey and pulling it out like three feet he was hanging on so hard. So the huge assist the officials gave to Miami near the end of regulation went largely unoticed. The last questionable call went Ohio State's way but it was not the only questionable call and/or questioanble no call of the game. At the very most, things evened out. Had Miami won that game Ohio State would have been robbed by virtue of what happened on that last third down of regulation.

[Gil Dobie]

I'd vote for App St, 3 National Titles won on the field, not in the press.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

I'm about as far from a tebow or gator fan as you can get, but that's a horrible comparison. Frazier wasn't any where near the passer Tebow was.and Tebow isn't the runner Frazier was. Tebow isn't the greatest passer in the world but he throws better than he gets credit for and he still holds the state record for td passes in a high school playoff game. Only comparison I see between the two is that neither will be seen as NFL qbs.

Tebow is not a good passer. I'll give you that Frazier was not good the first two years but he did improve a ton by his Jr. and Sr. year.

[SideLine Shooter]

I'd vote for App St, 3 National Titles won on the field, not in the press.

Gil D., you are a wise man!xthumbsupxxnodxxthumbsupxxnodx

[NDSUFREAK]

i expected more miami hurricane players