ESPN is going to be releasing their top 50 players in all of college football for the 2017 season. They threw out a lot of impressive names like Microsoft and the Wharton School. They proclaimed their 19 employees “experts”, and then released numbers 26-50. Exactly one of those guys plays for a group of 5 school.
I fully expect the list to be loaded with power 5 guys, and more specifically, skill position guys. It’s the nature of the beast of college football. There are 129 different teams in 10 different conferences. That’s a lot of players to keep track of, so they need stats to keep them in order.