In honor of the 150th year of college football in America, USA TODAY Sports is on a mission to determine the greatest college football player of all time. In what is an accurate and very cool development, Bubba Smith has been named a 15-seed of Region #2 of the voting bracket.
From USA TODAY, here is how they determined the field for the challenge and how voting will be conducted:
“We want to identify the *best* college football player of all time. Thanks to the American Football Coaches Association and 14 former college football coaches, we’re getting closer.
We started by asking the coaches to pick their 50 top players and then tabulated their votes to create a list of 64 players.
Those 64 names were separated into four regions of 16 each with players grouped by era and seeded by the coaches’ voting. Sound familiar? It’s March Madness – but in the fall. College Football Madness, for sure.
This is where you come in.
Over the next 10 weeks, we’ll be rolling out the matchups for you to vote on. We start in Region 1. The first round will consist of four, four-player matchups. You vote on the best and they advance. Then Region 2 in a week. Region 3 after that … and so on.”
And here is what they said about Bubba:
“Before enjoying a lengthy acting career, Smith was a dominant 6-7 defensive force. The two-time All-American played a major role for the Spartans in a 10-10 game against Notre Dame in 1966. That game has been called “The game of the century.””
So follow USA TODAY Sports on Twitter (click the link), and keep your eyes peeled for that first vote, when Bubba goes head to head against Archie Griffin, Ray Guy, and Mean Joe Green.
