Super Bowl 50: Best college player from each Power Five conference
By Dustin Hull
Who are the best college football players to play in Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos?
Super Bowl 50 is upon us, and today every other sport will be put to shame with what has long become a national holiday.
But before the latest group of stars take the stage in the biggest sporting event in our country, we look back on where such fame was earned: in college. From coast-to-coast, each major college football conference has had a hand in producing the stars who have molded these Super Bowl teams.
Most of the greatest players in this 50th edition of gridiron extravaganza came from what is now known as “Power Five” conferences. Sure, there’s such players as Jared Allen from Carolina and Demarcus Ware from Denver who went to smaller schools and went on to have humongous careers. But for the majority of these players, there was a reason they were highly recruited out of high school—and in the case of the five men on this list—highly coveted in the NFL Draft.
So we’ve looked at the list of players for Denver and Carolina who attended Power Five conferences, and sorted out who’s the best of the best from the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC. The list was based on their contributions on the college level and the impact they will have in the Super Bowl. Some of the decisions were tough, but there certainly wasn’t a shortage for any of these conferences in terms of creating Super Bowl-caliber talent.
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