Speed is becoming the name of the game in college football.Wide-open offenses such as the ones at Baylor and Oregon are world-famous for being factories of lightning-fast players. Even the pro-style teams known for their powerful "man ball" styles like Alabama and Stanford are loading up on track-star talent at skill positions and all across their defensive backfields.But who holds a legitimate claim to being the fastest in college football heading into the 2016 season'The most common way to measure speeds in footballtimes in 40-yard dashesare notoriously unreliable thanks to various conditions and timing mechanisms.A more accurate measure of speed is the fully automatic time system used in official track and field records from reliable sites such as the Track & Field Results Reporting System, Track & Field News and DyeStat.Many players who are considered some of the fastest in college football either run track collegiately or ran in high school.In this countdown, I relied on recent, verified and mostly wind-legal times from the above sites in the 100 meters, which is the most common event among these speedsters.(More recent times held a greater weight than old high school ones when the numbers were close.)However, some track stars with elite numbers in other events, such as hurdles and relays, were eligible for special consideration.Now, to be completely clear, this track-time method is the best objective way to pick the fastest players in college football. Some who didn't make the Top 25couldbe faster than those inside the Top 25, but there's no real way to determine that without relying onopinion instead of the hard data.Notice a player with a verified 100-meter time that I left out' Want to suggest a player for the honorable mention category' Let me know in the comments below.Begin Slideshow
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