Kicker U
The winner: Florida State Seminoles2. UCLA
3. Iowa
4. Ohio State
5. Utah
6. Nebraska
7. Memphis
8. Auburn
9. Miami
10. Florida
It's official: Kicker U
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2. UCLA
3. Iowa
4. Ohio State
5. Utah
6. Nebraska
7. Memphis
8. Auburn
9. Miami
10. Florida
Not even top 10 runningback U? Mike Rozier, Ahman Green, Roger Craig, Lawrence Phillips, Ameer Abdullah. That list is trash.
I agree, it is ESECPN, so ...
Here's their justification for the rankings. Of which we are excluded from all but 1, and it is a low ranking in the special teams category. SHEESH!!!!Sick
How we calculated our results
There's no set formula for calculating which school produces the best prospects at each position, which is why a dozen programs can claim to be DBU. But our Stats and Information team put some math behind the boasts. So, what makes a school Position U? It's a combination of college success, draft stock and NFL success. Our formula awards points for all-conference and All-America selections, rewarding the best college performers. It awards points on a sliding scale based on where a player is drafted, rewarding impressive NFL evaluations.Then, using data from Pro Football Reference, we add more points for production through the first five years of the player's NFL career -- beyond that, credit belongs to the NFL trainers and coaches -- so that the draft busts and the late bloomers all get credit, too. Of course, we also need to account for the transfer portal, which is an increasingly big issue in the rankings. Our plan: Awards won in college belong to the school where it happened. The draft and NFL production get credited to the last school a player played for.
Lastly, success in developing fullbacks in the 1950s doesn't really translate to the modern game, so we had to determine a more precise timeline for inclusion. We set our starting point at 1998, the start of the BCS era, only counting players developed since then.