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American Pharoah claimed the elusive Triple Crown in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, becoming just the 12th Triple Crown winner in history and the first in 37 years.In honor of his accomplishment, we decided to put together a list of college football immortals: NCAA record-holders who hold unbreakable records.You won't see any mention of the longest punt, run, pa s or reception on this list. Each is a 99-yarder and obviously cannot be broken. But that's the thing: Those are too obvious to list. We're trying to be a bit more esoteric with our choices of unbreakable records.Here are the 10 we chose. There are others that won't be broken, too, but these intrigued us the most. {"adConfig":{"preroll":{"ciuSzs":"300x60,1x1","descriptionUrl":" ","frequency":2,"iu":"/4595/ Dante Exum Jersey nfl.com/news/article/college-football-news","partner":"","players": "barry-sanders" ,"s1":"news","s2":"ten-unbreakable-college-football-records-0ap2000000356173","s3":"college-football-news","s4":"article","teams": "DET" ,"test":"","url":" ","vid":""}},"analytics":{"reportSuite":"cbsnfl","pageDetail":"ten-unbreakable-college-football-records-0ap2000000356173","siteName":"nfl.com","siteSection":"news","siteSubsection":"news"},"autoplay":false,"clubs":false,"playlist": {"audio":false,"description":"It's legendary running back Barry Sanders' birthday. 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Only 18 backs ever have rushed for 2,000 yards, and Sanders' 2,628 leads the way. Sanders' big season came before the NCAA began counting bowl games in the record book; Sanders ran for 222 in a Holiday Bowl rout of Wyoming, which meant he rushed for 2,850 yards in 12 games. Only three backs ever have averaged 200 yards per game in a season -- Sanders, USC's Marcus Allen (212.9 in 1981) and Cornell's Ed Marinaro (209.0 in 1971, when the Ivy League still was in the highest cla sification). Sanders' per-game average is 26 yards more per game than Allen's.Longest winning streakRecord: 47, by Oklahoma in 1953-57.Buzz: The staggering streak spanned part of five seasons. It started with the third game of the '53 season and ended in the eighth game of the '57 season. OU went three entire seasons (1954-55-56) without a lo s. During the streak, OU outscored its foes 1,621-276 (that's an average score of 34-6). The Sooners held their opponents to single digits in 35 of the 47 wins and shut out their opponents 22 times during the streak.Most pa sing yards, one halfRecord: 517, by Houston's Andre Ware on Oct. 21, 1989.Buzz: SMU was coming off a two-season "death penalty" in '89 and didn't belong on the same field with a Houston team that would finish 9-2. But that didn't stop Houston coach Jack Pardee -- whose team coincidentally was on probation that season -- from letting Ware throw it all over the place against SMU, which was coached by Forrest Gregg. Ware threw for 340 yards and five TDs in the first quarter and was 25-of-41 for 517 yards and six TDs in the first half, which ended with the Cougars leading 59-14. Ware didn't play in the second half and Houston won 95-21. Gregg wasn't too happy afterward: "I'd never run up the score like that on a group of freshmen and sophomores." It was one of five games that season in which the Cougars scored at least 60 points and one of eight in which they scored at least 40. All of that leads to ...Total offense, yards per gameRecord: 624.9, by Houston in 1989.Buzz: Baylor came close in 2013, averaging 618.2, but Houston and Baylor are the only schools in NCAA history to average 600 yards in a season. Houston's run-and-shoot offense took no prisoners that season, especially when the Cougars played overmatched foes, but it did struggle in a 17-13 lo s at Texas A&M. Houston lost twice and finished second in the now-defunct Southwest Conference. The Cougars rolled up a record 1,021 yards against SMU, one of two games with at least 744 yards. They hit the 600-yard plateau six times and only once were held to le s than 500 yards (369 by A&M). The Cougars also committed an astounding 39 turnovers, including 23 fumbles, and 129 penalties that season.Most punting yards in a gameRecord: 1,318 by Texas Tech's Charlie Calhoun on Nov. 11, 1939.Buzz: Yep, 1,318 punting yards in one game. Calhoun punted 36 times that afternoon against Centenary (one team, Georgia Tech, punted just 32 times total last season). The game was played in a downpour and the field basically was unplayable. The teams combined to gain 30 yards of offense and for 77 punts (67 of them came on first down); the contest ended in a 0-0 tie. Calhoun's mark was one of 13 NCAA single-game records set that day, the most of any game in NCAA history.Average rushing yards per game, teamRecord: 472.4, by Oklahoma in 1971.Buzz: Oklahoma's wishbone attack -- guided by offensive coordinator Barry Switzer and quarterback/option wizard Jack Mildren -- struck fear in everybody, though the Sooners did fall to Nebraska 35-31 on Day thanks to the heroics of Johnny Rodgers in one of the best college games ever. OU was 11-1 that season and scored at least 30 points in every game but one; the Sooners scored at least 40 seven times. OU runners had 18 100-yard outings that season. The Sooners rushed for "just" 279 yards in the Nebraska lo s, the only time that season that they didn't rush for at least 342. Records compiled by OU football historian Mike Brooks show that the Mildren-led wishbone cracked the 500-yard barrier five times and the 400-yard barrier 10 times. And remember: This was not total yardage but rather rushing yards. OU's average is almost 50 yards higher than the No. 2 team (Oklahoma in 1987 rushed for 428.8 yards per game). Check out the top 10 players from Florida to play in the NFL. Most interceptions thrown in a gameRecord: 9, by Florida's John Reaves vs. Auburn on Nov. 1, 1969.Buzz: Florida came in 6-0, thanks mostly to the pa sing arm of Reaves, who eventually was drafted in the first round by the in 1972. That day, though, Reaves attempted 66 pa ses and completed nine to Tigers defenders; Auburn LB Sonny Ferguson had three picks, and LB Bobby Strickland and DBs Buddy McLinton and Larry Willingham had two interceptions each. McClinton finished with a school-record nine picks that season. Auburn won 38-12. The lo s was the Gators' only setback that season, as they finished 9-1-1. Reaves finished the season with 24 TD pa ses and 19 interceptions; he graduated with 7,549 pa sing yards, which was the most in NCAA history at the time.Rushing yards allowed per gameRecord: 17.0, by Penn State in 1947.Buzz: The Nittany surrendered just 153 rushing yards in nine games that season. And ge Zydrunas Ilgauskas Jersey |
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