Fox Sports: Cam Newton is the GOAT college football player

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Now that you've indulged my rant about the Heisman, we can talk about my all-time top-10 college football players.

The criteria I considered:

— Was he the best player on his team?
— Did his team win national titles on a team that wasn't full of studs?
— What did he do in Winning Time?

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1. Cam Newton

Cam Newton posted video-game numbers in leading Auburn to the national title in 2010.

Dan Mullen wanted Cam Newton to start over Tim Tebow. He was that good.

Newton won a national title in both junior college and college. At Blinn College, he and the Buccaneers dropped 60 on Tyler Junior College.

Newton was responsible for 503 of Blinn's 601 yards in that game. They hung 84 on Cisco College. He only accounted for 369 yards in that game and seven TDs.

In the national title game, Blinn beat 11-0 Fort Scott 31-26. The Greyhounds knew what it was gonna be with Cam.

And at Auburn, he put together the greatest single season in the history of the sport in 2010 — the year I graduated college. He brought the Tigers back from a 24-point deficit to beat Nick Saban's Alabama 28-27 in a game we still refer to as the Camback. You know that Auburn team finished 14-0 and with the national title.

Means there's only one team that beat Cam in college: Navarro defeated Blinn 23-20 in the last game of Newton's regular season in JUCO. Between Nov. 1, 2009, and September 10, 2011, Cam didn't lose a single game.

And there was nothing he couldn't do on a football field. He fell just 73 total yards shy of a 3,000-yard passing, 1,500-yard rushing season in what is the most remarkable single season in the history of the sport following a remarkable one in JUCO.

He accounted for 51 TDs and just seven picks in 2010. He rushed for, passed for and caught a touchdown while recording a tackle that season.

Quite simply, there's only one Cam Newton.

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2. Reggie Bush

3. Vince Young

4. Tommy Frazier

5. Herschel Walker

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