Brett Favre Picks Best College Football Player Ever, Says It's Not Tebow or Reggie Bush
The debate over the greatest college football player of all-time is an endless one with many candidates to be labeled the GOAT.
Some would pick Tim Tebow who re-wrote the NCAA record books, was a two-time national champion and a Heisman winner.
Others would pick Archie Griffin of Ohio State who remains the only two-time Heisman winner and who was recently named the All-Century Player of the Rose Bowl Game.
And, scandals not withstanding, former USC running back Reggie Bush was as dominant and dynamic of a college football player as there has been this century.
Brett Favre is not usually brought up in that discussion as he had a solid, but unspectacular four years at Southern Miss. However, Favre has joined the debate by offering his two cents on who the greatest player in college football is and it’s someone many fans may have never heard of.
Appearing on TMZ Sports, Favre picked his childhood hero as his pick for the GOAT as he went with fellow Southern Miss alum Reggie Collier.
“The younger generation probably has no clue who Reggie is,” said Favre. “But, not only is he the greatest player in Southern Miss history, he is, in my opinion, the greatest college football player ever.
“Numbers will not lead you to believe that. But he was the first player to run and throw for 1,000 yards and sort of pave the way for guys to do it all the time.”
Collier did indeed post a 1,000/1,000 season in 1981 to become the first quarterback in Division I history to accomplish the feat.
He finished ninth in the Heisman race that season and also led the Golden Eagles to many firsts in program history such as their first AP Top 25 ranking and their first bowl win during his four-year career.
“Physically, he was second to none,” Favre said. “And would still be second to none at 6’4″, 225, 230, ran a 4.4 40, could throw the lights out of it … I don’t think that any person watching him could not marvel at what he was able to do.”
“I certainly wanted to be him.”
Collier elected to play in the USFL over the NFL out of college and was the third overall pick in the 1983 USFL Collegiate Draft.
After three seasons with three different teams, the USFL folded and Collier was drafted in the sixth round by the Dallas Cowboys in 1983.
He became the first African American quarterback in Cowboys history but attempted just 22 passes in his entire NFL career which ended as a replacement player with the Steelers in 1987.
Collier finished his career in the Arena Football League and currently works in the Southern Miss Athletics Department. He and Favre are serving as honorary coaches for Southern Miss’ Spring Game on Saturday.
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