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The following is a list of football players in NCAA Division I FBS and its predecessors ranked in the top 30 for total points scored in a career or single season. Points are calculated as 6 points for a touchdown (rushing, receiving or returning - not passing), 3 points for a field goal, 2 points for a two-point conversion (rushing or receiving), and 1 point for an extra point.
Beginning with the 1937 college football season, when the NCAA began maintaining official records, the list includes each year's leaders both in total points scored and in points scored per game. The list is limited to players for major college programs, which includes the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (2006–present), NCAA ...
The most points scored by a single team, and the most lopsided final score in college football history, occurred on October 7, 1916 when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222–0. [3] Only two other programs have scored at least 200 points in a single game: King (TN) defeated Lenoir 206–0 in 1922 and St. Viator beat Lane (IL) 205–0 in 1916.
Note: The longest field goal ever made in collegiate competition was 69 yards by Ove Johansson of Abilene Christian University, which at the time (1976) was competing as an NAIA, not an NCAA, school. NCAA players drafted into NFL by position
One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for each division. [4] The most recent football player to win the all-sports honor is Owen Grover of Wartburg College, who received the Division III award for the 2023–24 academic year. [5] [a]
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McInally was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016. [1] McInally was a two-time football All Ivy League first team selection and helped lead Harvard to a share of the 1974 Ivy League title. McInally is the first graduate of Harvard to play in either the NFL Pro Bowl or the Super Bowl. He did both during the 1981 season.
[a] A player on the first team of every official selector is recognized as being a unanimous All-American. [2] Since 2002, the five selectors designated by the NCAA for this purpose are the Associated Press (AP), the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News , and the Walter ...