NCAA Division I FBS Consensus All-Americans
NCAA Division I FBS Consensus All-Americans, as recognized on this site, are those players honored as consensus All-America selections by the NCAA, based on the "recognized" All-America team selectors for a given year. Those recognized selectors are as follows:
- Caspar Whitney (1889-1908)
- Walter Camp (1898-1924; 1917 was an all-service team)
- International News Service (1913-1917, 1920, 1924-1957) (merged with United Press to form UPI)
- Frank Mencke Syndicate (1916-1920)
- Newspaper Enterprise Association (1917, 1924-1942, 1944-1973)
- Football World Magazine (1920, 1923-1925)
- All-America Board (1924-1946, 1948-1955)
- Liberty Magazine (1924-1925, 1931-1941)
- Associated Press (1925-present)
- Collier's Magazine (Grantland Rice) (1925-1947)
- United Press (1925-1957) (merged with INS to form UPI)
- Sporting News (1934-1963, 1993-present)
- North American Newspaper Alliance (1927-1937)
- Newsweek (1937-1942)
- Look (1942-1945)
- Football News (1943-1944, 1993-2001)
- Football Writers Association of America (1945-present)
- American Football Coaches Association (1945-present)
- Central Press (1963-1970)
- Walter Camp Foundation (1972-1974, 1983-present)
- CNN/Sports Illustrated (2001 only)
(Bold indicates current recognized selectors.)
To be considered a Consensus All-American, a player must be named to a plurality of the first-team selections among the recognized selectors for the year in question.
At this time, we are not creating pages for the individual All-America teams themselves, nor breaking them down by year. Unlike with the lower divisions, this information is all currently available, but until such time as the lower divisions are also available this portion of the project will be delayed.
