03.17.08 5:00 AM CDT
• Sports
• Gary Cole
For the first time in the 52-year history of the Playboy Preseason All-America Football Team, we’re inviting you to participate in the process. Every week or so, we’ll talk about a different position on this year’s coming Playboy All-America football team. I’ll rundown my favorites to make the team. You chime in with your thoughts. Our goal is to select the player at each position on offense and defense, as well as a place kicker, punter and return man, who we think will be the best in the nation. We limit consideration to Division I student/athletes with at least one year of college eligibility remaining.
The selected players will be assembled in early May for an awards weekend, team photo and to create material for our College Football Preview television show. The team along with our Top 25 predictions for the coming season will be published in our Pigskin Preview in the September 2008 issue of the magazine.
I’ll give you more history and information about past Playboy All-Americas in the coming weeks but for now, let’s start things off by trying to decide who the best college quarterback will be next season. Here are some of the players on my board:
Sam Bradford – Oklahoma (6’5”, 213 pounds, sophomore). Bradford set an NCAA record for freshman last season with 36 touchdown passes and led the nation in passing efficiency.
Matthew Stafford – Georgia (6’3”, 237 pounds, junior). Stafford has already passed for over 4,000 yards in two seasons. Graham Harrell – Texas Tech (6’3”, 203, senior). He led the nation in passing yards for the second consecutive year and has already totaled over 10,000 career passing yards.
Rudy Carpenter – Arizona State (6’2”, 202 pounds, senior) He had a 61.8% completion percentage last season and 25 passing touchdowns.
Zac Robinson – Oklahoma State (6’3”, 220, junior). He set a school total offense record last season with 3671 yards which included 800 rushing yards.
Josh Freeman – Kansas State (6’6”, 250 pounds, junior) Josh passed from 3353 yards and 18 touchdowns for the Wildcats last season.
Pat White – West Virginia (6’2”, 185, senior) He’s been the Big East Offensive Player of the Year for the past two seasons.
Isiah “Juice” Williams – Illinois (6’2”, 223 pounds, junior) Williams totaled over 1700 passing yards, nearly 900 rushing yards and total of 20 touchdowns.
Chase Daniel – Missouri (6’0”, 225, senior) He was Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year last season, passing for over 300 yards in eight of 13 games.
This might not be all the quarterback candidates worthy of consideration but it’s a good starter list. Let’s hear from you. Who do you think will be the best quarterback in college football next season?
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What about College Pro Painter? Curtis had almost 4000 yards, 29 tds and 11 int with a rating of 133.