He is dead. The head coach of the Louisville Cardinals football team has just announced the death of his best player.

He is dead. The head coach of the Louisville Cardinals football team has just announced the death of his best player.

He has passed away. The Louisville Cardinals football team’s head coach recently revealed the passing of his best player.
Louisville, Kentucky John Wallace, a former place kicker for Louisville who established a school record with 66 career field goals—two of which came in a 2013 Sugar Bowl upset of Florida—has passed away. His age was 31.

Wallace’s death was reported by the school on Wednesday, though the cause of death was not stated.

Between 2012 and 2015, Wallace was a key player in the Cardinals‘ four-game winning streak that included a 33-23 triumph over the Gators in New Orleans. As a freshman, he completed 16 of 21 tries, missing only one, from 57 yards, on his first 11 attempts. He scored 34 points against Cincinnati that season, including a 30-yard field goal in overtime.

In 2013, Wallace converted 20 of 24 kicks as Louisville achieved a school-record 12-1 record, which included an Athletic Bowl triumph. In addition to setting a school record with 85 career tries, he is second among kickers with 384 points and fourth with a 78% field goal conversion rate.

The native of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is ranked eighth overall at Louisville in terms of scoring.
Regarding the greatest college football teams of all time, each of us has our own thoughts. Perhaps you’re a Miami of 2001. Perhaps you would rather go with the 1971 Nebraska vintage, or perhaps you would prefer Texas from 2005 or Nebraska from 1995. Perhaps you are like Beano Cook, evangelizing about 1947 Notre Dame for eternity. Perhaps the allure of 2019 LSU and Joe Burreaux attracted you. Perhaps you believe that the finest Alabama teams under Nick Saban’s coaching in 2011? 2012? 2020? should take home the trophy. Perhaps you’re a 1945 Army hipster like me.

But the biggest teams don’t always have the biggest effects on the game. The development of college football has been influenced for over a century by both large and small teams, as well as by coaches who have had enormous success and just little success.

This ranking is an effort to honor the influencers, the LSUs and the Gramblings, the Nick Sabans and the Mouse Davises. The top 30 teams in college football history are listed here. There are numerous methods by which you can compile this list. Perhaps you spurred significant innovation. Perhaps your group arrived to identify the pinnacle of a particular period. Perhaps you had an influence on culture or society in addition to being a great person. Perhaps you were simply really chill. Whatever the case, these 30 clubs have left a lasting impression on the game.