(07-15-2021 11:35 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(07-15-2021 11:10 AM)Rabid Squirrel Wrote:  

(07-14-2021 11:48 PM)The Huskie Wrote:  NIU was a rushing superpower as evidenced by this list of all time NCAA rushing records.

List of NCAA major college football yearly rushing leaders:

The list of college football yearly rushing leaders identifies the major college rushing leaders for each season from 1937 to the present. It includes yearly leaders in three statistical categories: (1) rushing yardage; (2) yards per carry; and (3) rushing touchdowns.

Leading programs

Programs with multiple rushing leaders (at least three individual players, in any of the three categories) include:

Oklahoma – 8 (Patrick Collins, Marcus Dupree, Buster Rhymes, Billy Sims, Kenny King, Greg Pruitt, Clendon Thomas, and Buck McPhail)
USC – 8 (Reggie Bush, LenDale White, Marcus Allen, Charles White, Ricky Bell, O. J. Simpson, Mike Garrett, and Mort Kaer)
Texas – 7 (Bijan Robinson, Vince Young, Cedric Benson, Ricky Williams, Earl Campbell, Gralyn Wyatt, and Jimmy Saxton)
Alabama – 6 (Najee Harris, Derrick Henry, Mark Ingram, Santonio Beard, Wilbur Jackson, and Bobby Marlow)
Georgia Tech – 5 (David Sims, Red Barron, Buck Flowers, Everett Strupper, and Albert Hill)
Nebraska – 5 (Ahman Green, Calvin Jones, Tom Rathman, Mike Rozier, and Glenn Presnell)
Northern Illinois – 5 (Mark Kellar, LeShon Johnson, Garrett Wolfe, Stacey Robinson and Chad Spann)


I hope that NIU can regain its rushing greatness!

If anyone was wondering; Lynch was second in 2013 by 157 yards to Andre willams and in 2012 he was 4th but only by 114 yards. Bad bowl games both years hurt reaching #1.

Those damn bowl games! If we ever win a bowl game, we should have a massive celebration in DeKalb like we won the national championship. I think the last time we won a bowl game I was just getting out of puberty. (Okay, so I never left, but you get the idea!)

I propose a annual bowl match up against Fresno State called The Sauce Bowl. Soy, BBQ, Shrimp….tons of sponsorships abound