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Syracuse Football: Jim Brown officially receives GOAT crown from ESPN

All year long ESPN has been rolling out there college football 150 celebration counting down the best college football players to ever play the game and they wrapped it up during the National Championship game on Monday night.

Former Syracuse football star Jim Brown earned the No. 1 spot on the list.

“ESPN’s 150 greatest college football players were determined by a blue-ribbon panel of current and former writers, broadcasters, administrators, sports information directors, and ESPN personalities,” per Cuse.com.

Although Jim Brown wasn’t the only former member of the Syracuse football squad to crack the list.