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Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Summer Olympics; the same year he had approximately 2,000 yards rushing. 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 ...
The single-game rushing record belongs to Oklahoma's Samaje Perine, whose 427 yards in a 2014 game against Kansas broke a record set just the week before by Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon. Prior to Perine and Gordon, the only player to rush for 400 yards in a game was LaDainian Tomlinson. All players on the career list are running backs.
His 8,155 yards rushing were split between Div II Notre Dame (OH) (4,737) [19] and FCS Youngstown State (3,418) and thus are not listed in the categories above. [ 20 ] Most yards rushing, season
Jeanty will pass Kevin Smith for third (2,567) with 70 yards and Melvin Gordon (2,587) for second with 90 more yards. Jeanty has 13 100-yard rushing games, 10 games of over 150 rushing yards and ...
The single-season leader in passing yards is Joe Burrow, who is the only player to ever top 6,000 yards of total offense in a single season. Burrow's yards came in 15 games, while second place Bailey Zappe's yards came in 14 games, and third place B. J. Symons's yards came in just 13 games.
The NCAA didn't allow freshmen to play varsity football until 1972 (with the exception of the World War II years), allowing players to have four-year careers. Bowl games only began counting toward single-season and career statistics in 2002. [3] These lists are updated through North Carolina's game against Duke on November 11, 2023.
Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Golden Gophers represent the University of Minnesota in the NCAA's Big Ten Conference. Although Minnesota began competing in intercollegiate football in 1882, [1] the school's official record book considers the "modern era" to have begun in 1945. Records ...
Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Badgers represent the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the NCAA's Big Ten Conference. Although Wisconsin began competing in intercollegiate football in 1889, [1] the school's official record book considers the "modern era" to have begun in 1946 ...