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Ranking the NCAA Football Covermen, from Worst to First

06:59 PM - March 12, 2013 by RaychelSnr

The NCAA Football cover has been shared by 25 different athletes since the series officially adopted the name of NCAA Football. While many of these athletes never quite enjoyed a bountiful pro career, most came off of an incredible college career (I'm looking at you Ricky Williams).

While the NCAA cover has missed several times, with notable college standouts such as Cam Newton and Eli Manning not gracing the cover, it has featured a wide variety of programs. Both USC and Michigan have graced the cover the most at three times apiece. Texas, Florida, and Alabama are the other multi cover programs. Teams that have appeared on the cover once include Oklahoma State, Baylor, Pitt, Boise State, Florida State, Oregon, Boston College, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Utah, Cal, West Virginia, and Michigan State.

Of the ten winningest programs of the 2000s, six never graced a cover in the last decade: Ohio State, Oklahoma, TCU, LSU, Georgia, or Virginia Tech. Nine out of the seventeen Heisman winners have been on an NCAA cover since the series adopted that name.

Ranking the 25 cover athletes was tough, but I took my best crack at it. Here they are from worst to first.

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# 1 BurghFan @ 03/12/13 07:09 PM

Nice list, but who is Matt Sanchez (#19)?

Also, nice to see Fitzgerald (NCAA 2005) ranked up there in the top 10.

# 2 Lawdawg25 @ 03/12/13 07:13 PM

Zabransky at 12 is too high IMO.

# 3 The_Wise_One @ 03/12/13 07:13 PM

Fitz FTW

I agree the Tebow cover was the best though.

# 4 BenGerman @ 03/12/13 08:25 PM

Loved Zabransky, but there was no way I would have ever put him on the cover of an NCAA.

# 5 RaychelSnr @ 03/12/13 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BurghFan


	Nice list, but who is Matt Sanchez (#19)? Also, nice to see Fitzgerald (NCAA 2005) ranked up there in the top 10.

Haha! Oh man, that's literally something that my brain apparently continually skipped over while making this list. But yeah, Mark Sanchez...although a fictional Matt Sanchez might've been just as powerful of a cover athlete. #dig

# 6 fsufan4423 @ 03/12/13 08:44 PM

The last time I cared was 2002

A lot of people seem to care, cause the customer cover threads are usually 30 pages deep.

# 7 This Is Michigan @ 03/12/13 08:48 PM

Desmond that low? Why?

He perfectly fit the new game modes into the game just like Barry Sanders did last year.

# 8 mikemulloy @ 03/12/13 09:01 PM

peter warrick went to florida state

# 9 Feldman011teen @ 03/12/13 09:08 PM

What is this list based on? And why Tebow at 1? Barry Sanders is legend.

# 10 MrOctober430 @ 03/14/13 05:08 PM

Reminds me, I gotta buy NCAA 11. Football Jesus collectable.

# 11 xandermole25 @ 03/14/13 08:58 PM

you do know that Fitzgerald only played two years in college and never had a senior year

# 12 stormisbruin @ 03/20/13 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feldman011teen


	What is this list based on? And why Tebow at 1? Barry Sanders is legend.

So is Tebow?

# 13 saunders45 @ 03/21/13 12:55 PM

List is missing:

# 14 Kaiser Wilhelm @ 03/24/13 09:29 PM

I'm not sure I understand the criteria of the list. Desmond Howard was a near perfect pick for the features added that year. That whole game was built around the new Campus Legend (or whatever the name was then) mode which was all about winning the Heisman trophy and having Howard doing the Heisman pose fit it perfectly.

# 15 El Capahoe @ 03/26/13 05:38 PM

What a joke...Charles Woodson is no where near that #4 spot. He shouldn't have even won the Heisman, or the NCAA cover. There were MANY players that were better than him during the year he won the Heisman. His Heisman trophy was won because of the name brand Michigan is, not because of his play. He had two great games during his Heisman campaign but the rest of his season was VERY average.

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