[Originally published in 2003, here’s my humble take at listing the Top 25 Michigan football players of all-time. I thought this timely given the recent list of the CFB150 top 150 players in college football history. This piece also appeared in the Detroit News.]
Preface: I always struggle with all-time lists because it’s clearly so hard to compare the eras in which teams, coaches and players performed. The game has changed so much since Michigan first took the field against Racine in 1879 it makes the task nearly impossible.
One method is to compare players from the same era—and I get that—but that’s not what I went for here.