Texas Football: Analyst lists Vince Young as top 3 college football player ever

Former legendary Texas football quarterback Vince Young was recently listed by a CBS/Cover 3 Podcast analyst as a top CFB player of all-time.

During the 2000’s, the Texas football program was one of the most proficient of any in all of the FBS in terms of producing quarterback talent. Texas not only produced a lot of star quarterbacks that were well known around the college football landscape throughout the 2000’s, they had a lot of stability at the position.

That really changed heading into the 2010’s. Stability wasn’t really a thing at the quarterback position or with the coaching staff on the Forty Acres within the last 10 years. Texas went through three different head coaching regimes, and a number of different starting quarterbacks in the 2010’s.

However, it is still fun to look back on what the Longhorns got out of superstar quarterbacks in the 2000’s like the legendary dual-threat Vince Young and the ultra-consistent and accurate Colt McCoy. Young was able to get the Longhorns their most recent national title, which came in that memorable 2006 Rose Bowl win over Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and the USC Trojans to cap the 2005 season.

McCoy never got the Longhorns a second elusive national title in the 2000’s, but he did come really close. If not for that McCoy injury in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game against the Alabama Crimson Tide, Texas might have brought that crown back to the Forty Acres. Instead McCoy’s early first quarter injury allowed Alabama to roll over the Longhorns.

But the opinion around the college football media landscape is still very well regarded of those two quarterbacks. That is especially true of VY. In a recent post on social media from Tom Fornelli of the Cover 3 Podcast, as part of the 247Sports and CBS Sports network, he opened up on his ranking of the top five greatest college football players of all-time.

This list placed VY as the second best of all-time, just behind the Nebraska Cornhuskers legendary signal caller Tommie Frazier. Back during the 1994 and 1995 seasons, Frazier helped head coach Tom Osborne and the Huskers win back to back national titles.

And just behind VY were the USC running back Bush, Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, and Miami Hurricanes safety Ed Reed (to round out the list in that order). Bush helped the Trojans win back-to-back national titles (depending on which method you look at) in 2003 and 2004. He nearly helped USC get a third in a row in 2005, but VY and Texas dashed those hopes in that legendary Rose Bowl.

Moreover, Reed was part of that insanely talented 2001 Miami team that many still regard as the best squad in college football history. He registered 21 career interceptions, four of which he returned for a touchdown.

VY finished up his three years playing for Texas with just over 6,000 passing yards, 44 touchdowns through the air, 28 interceptions, more than 3,000 rushing yards, and 37 rushing scores. He also finished in the top two in the Heisman voting in 2005, and was a two-time All-American.