15 best college football players we wish played in the Twitter era

12. Best college football players before Twitter: Bo Jackson, RB, Auburn

Bo Jackson’s truck stick was made for Twitter. Watch him meet a linebacker at the line of scrimmage and turn it into five yards, then smash retweet like he smashes linebackers. You already know Virtual Bo is a Tecmo legend. Real-life Jackson would set Twitter on fire.

What Bo Jackson was as an athlete should not be possible. Some running backs are speed guys. Some running backs are power guys. He was faster than the speed backs and more powerful than the power backs. Honestly, how much would some eccentric billionaire have to pay you for you to try to tackle Jackson head-on?

He allegedly ran a sub-4.2 second 40-yard dash (4.13 to be exact, although it hasn’t been proven). Chris Johnson, at 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds ran it in 4.24. Jackson weighed 220 and was 6-foot-1. He had two insanely productive seasons as a sophomore and a senior when he won the Heisman. In those two seasons, he rushed for 2,999 yards, averaging 6.9 yards per carry. That’s an explosion of a human being averaging 70 percent of a first down.

In his 30 for 30, You Don’t Know Bo, he revealed he was a bit of an Allen Iverson type. Twitter for sure would have let us know about that. And he has the quiet edge to him that lets you know he would absolutely clap-back if you came at him too hard.

Then there is this: Jackson wanted to go to Alabama, but he would have to sit out his first two years. Auburn promised he would play in his first season, and he did. Auburn and Alabama split the Iron Bowl, but you know every flattened Tide player would be shared ad nauseam by Auburn Twitter.