The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions. The original use of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Week's Sports . Football pioneer Walter Camp also began selecting All-America teams in the 1890s and was recognized as the official selector in the early years of the 20th century.
18-867: Raymond Davis may refer to: Ray Davis (American football) (born 1999), American football player Ray Davis (musician) (1940–2005), American musician Ray Davis (businessman) (born 1941), American businessman Raymond Allen Davis (born 1974), American military officer Raymond Cazallis Davis (1836–1919), American librarian Ray E. Davis (1907–1972), American football player and coach Raymond E. Davis (1885–1965), American naval officer Raymond G. Davis (1915–2003), American general Raymond Davis Jr. (1914–2006), American physicist See also [ edit ] Raymond Davies (disambiguation) Ray Davies (born 1944), frontman of The Kinks Wallace Ray Davis (1949–2007), televangelist and owner of Affiliated Media Group [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
36-490: A district chairman, along with another head coach who serves as the chairman of the selection committee. The coaches in each district are responsible for ranking the top players in their respective districts; that information, along with ballots submitted by FBS head coaches, are used to select the AFCA FBS Coaches' All-America Team.snake The Coaches' All-America Team has been sponsored by various entities throughout
54-585: A panel of sportswriters who vote to determine the AP All-America Team. It has selected an All-America team since 1925. The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) has selected an All-America team every year since 1945. It is often referred to as the "Coaches' All-America Team". The Selection Process is an All-America Selection Committee is made up of three head coaches from each of the AFCA's nine I-A (Bowl Division) districts, one of whom serves as
72-610: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ray Davis (American football) Re'Mahn Walter Zhamar Jamar Davis (born November 20, 1999) is an American professional football running back for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Temple , Vanderbilt , and Kentucky . Davis amassed 152 total yards from scrimmage in his first career start. Davis
90-675: Is listed. If a player is named an All-American by all five organizations, he receives " unanimous All-American " recognition. Depending upon the distribution of first team honors at any given position, it is possible to be consensus with fewer than three first-team selections. As of 2021, the University of Alabama had produced the most unanimous All-Americans of any program with 40. There have been 2,868 players from 156 colleges and universities since 1889 who were selected to at least one All-American first team. Five players have earned that honor four times: They are: The Associated Press has
108-545: Is selected by a committee of writers representing all conferences and regions of the NCAA . The Writers' Team has been highlighted in various media forums. From 1946 to 1970, Look published the FWAA team and brought players and selected writers to New York City for a celebration. During that 25-year period, the FWAA team was introduced on national television shows by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Perry Como and others. After Look folded,
126-1014: The International News Service (INS), it became United Press International . The INS had chosen teams since 1913. UPI continued to choose an All-America team, based on a poll of sportswriters, through the 1996 season. The Central Press Association , a newspaper syndicate based in Cleveland, polled team school captains for its "Captain's All-America Team" Another media group who polled writers and players to compose its team. It ran from 1924 through 1996. ABC Sports , ESPN , CNN Sports Illustrated , College Football News , CBSSports.com , PFF , Time magazine, Bleacher Report and many others also select All-America teams. Time magazine selected All-America teams from 1956 through 1976. ESPN's selections are made by veteran college football writer Ivan Maisel. Maisel's began selecting an All-America team for ESPN.com in 2002. CBS Sports.com
144-746: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes the All-America teams selected by the AP , AFCA , FWAA , Sporting News , and the WCFF to determine consensus All-Americans. If more than half of the organizations select a player to their first team, he receives the "consensus" honor. If no player qualifies under that criterion, a player named to two first teams can be chosen. Second- and third-team selections can be used as tie-breakers. If still tied, each player
162-553: The Temple Owls in 2019, running for 936 yards and eight touchdowns as a freshman and being named first-team Freshman All-American by Pro Football Focus (PFF). The following year, he ran for 323 yards in four games before entering the NCAA transfer portal . Davis transferred to play for the Vanderbilt Commodores . In 2021, He had 211 rushing yards with a touchdown in his first three games before missing
180-426: The 1962 season TSN's All-America team was picked by a poll of sportswriters. Beginning in 1964 the team was selected by "professional scouts and observers". The Sporting News cited the advent of two-platoon football as the need to go to that system. United Press International (UPI) selected players in a national poll of sportswriters and began selecting teams in 1925 as "United Press". In 1958, after it merged with
198-969: The 22nd-ranked Florida Gators , he ran for 280 yards and scored four touchdowns. Davis was selected by the Buffalo Bills with the 128th overall pick in the fourth round in the 2024 NFL draft . College Football All-America Team As of 2023, the College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), Sporting News ( TSN , from its historic name of The Sporting News ), Sports Illustrated ( SI ), The Athletic (Athletic), USA Today (USAT), ESPN , CBS Sports (CBS), College Football News ( CFN ), Scout.com , Athlon Sports , Phil Steele , and Fox Sports (FOX). Starting in 2009,
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#1732776765414216-495: The FWAA started a long association with NCAA Films (later known as NCAA Productions), which produced a 30-minute television show and sold it to sponsors. The team was part of ABC Television's 1981 College Football Series. From 1983 to 1990, the team was either on ABC or ESPN, and since 1991 has returned to the national spotlight on ABC. The corporate sponsor for the Writers' team is AT&T , after several years of Cingular being
234-718: The rest of the year due to injury. He ran for 1,042 yards with five touchdowns in the 2022 season, earning fourth-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) honors while having five 100-yard games and being a semifinalist for the SEC Comeback Player of the Year award. Davis entered the transfer portal a second time for his final year of eligibility in 2023, choosing to play for the Kentucky Wildcats . In his Kentucky debut, he ran for 112 yards and scored two touchdowns while averaging eight yards-per-carry. Against
252-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond_Davis&oldid=1226835054 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
270-623: The second longest continuously published team in college football, has been a staple of the college football scene since 1944. It is sometimes referred to as the "Writers' All-America Team". The FWAA has selected an All-America team with the help of its members and an All-America Committee which represents all the regions in the country. Some who have helped to select this team over the years: Mark Blaudschun, Grantland Rice, Bert McGrane, Blackie Sherrod, Furman Bisher, Pat Harmon, Fred Russell, Edwin Pope, Murray Olderman , Paul Zimmerman . The All-America team
288-642: The sponsor. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF) All-America team is selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools and certified by UHY Advisors, a New Haven-based accounting firm. Walter Camp, "The Father of American Football", first selected an All-America team in 1889. The WCF claims an 80% participation rate in the voting for its All-America team. Sporting News , formerly known as The Sporting News and known colloquially as TSN , have teams college football editors and staff select teams, which they have been doing since 1934. From that year through
306-573: The years but it is now under its own banner, the AFCA. These are the sponsors/publishers of the team throughout the years. 1945–1947 : Published in Saturday Evening Post 1948–1956 : Published in Collier's 1957–1959 : General Mills 1960–1993 : Eastman Kodak 1994 : Schooner's International 1995–1996 : AFCA 1997–1999 : Burger King 2000–present : AFCA The Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) Team,
324-709: Was born on November 20, 1999, in San Francisco, California , and has 14 siblings. He spent time in foster care as a child due to both his parents being incarcerated. Davis attended Trinity-Pawling School in New York before spending a post-graduate year at Blair Academy due to academic grades. At Blair, he ran for 1,698 yards and 35 touchdowns while playing eight games. He finished his high school career with 4,815 yards and 48 touchdowns scored on offense while having posted 80 tackles and six interceptions on defense. Davis began playing college football for
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