Three Oklahoma Players Make AP’s All-Time All-America Team
Three Oklahoma Players Make AP’s All-Time All-America Team
The Associated Press is in its 100th year naming an All-America team and the Sooners are well-represented … but who got snubbed?
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The Associated Press announced its all-time All-America team this week — 100 years of AP All-Americans — and, as expected, Oklahoma is well represented.
Undeniably one of college bluest blue blood programs, the Sooners landed three on the AP’s All-Time All-America Team — a team that includes first-and second-team designations.
OU ranks fifth all-time with 75 AP All-Americans. Notre Dame leads the list with 85, while Alabama has 83, Ohio State 79 and USC 77. Texas is sixth with 65. Pittsburgh and Ohio State led the way on the AP All-Time Team with three first-team All-Americans and four total.
For Oklahoma, linebacker Brian Bosworth, tight end Keith Jackson and defensive lineman Lee Roy Selmon all received second-team recognition, although all three could make a solid argument for first-team accolades. All three played for College Football Hall of Fame coach Barry Switzer and combined for four national championships.
Bosworth was a two-time first-team AP All-American in 1985 and ’86 and was second team in ’84, arguably America’s most feared defender. He won the first two Butkus Award trophies, given to the best linebacker in college football, and 40 years later remains the award’s only two-time recipient.
He played three seasons at OU, finished with 395 career tackles, three Big Eight Conference crowns and one national championship. Moreover, Bosworth defined college football in the 1980s as the sport transitioned from a regional attraction to a national event. Bosworth left OU in disgrace after a positive test for steroids and entered the NFL Supplemental Draft, where he was the No. 1 pick. However, he played just three abbreviated seasons with the Seattle Seahawks due to lingering s
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