The 50 Most Brutal College Football Hits
1. Best Be Leaving the Field, Homie
HITTER: Kevin Barnes, Maryland
VICTIM: Jahvid Best, Cal
WHEN: September 13, 2008
• There’s nothing more sickly satisfying than laying a major hit then watching your target crawl, vomit, and writhe in agony while you celebrate with your teammates. Nothing like American football.
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arrjae September 4, 2009 at 8:43 am
nice post
crazy ass hits in there….
blackdickwhitman! September 4, 2009 at 10:12 am
Wow #1 was insane! I don’t know how that dude got up.
Dudley September 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Nice list, one of the smallest guys made the biggest tackle! Its all about technique
paul September 4, 2009 at 6:56 pm
thats jordon norwood for penn state fyi
Jeff September 4, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Stupid sport. Anyone covered in plastic armour with a helmet on can smack a person over. Particularly if you use your helmet and they’re stood like a friggin statue looking at the ball.
Skill level = 0.
Sam September 4, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Jarvis Williams said, “suck it!” on #7
KingmanIII September 4, 2009 at 9:30 pm
The guy who was slammed by Bernard Pollard (#49) was Gary Russell, not Marion Barber.
Chief Osceola September 4, 2009 at 9:50 pm
And to Jeff’s comment:
Some might say homing in on a human target at high speeds and withstanding car crash level trauma, play after play, does take a lot of skill.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say you’re more of a futbol fan. In that case, hamming it up after taking a kick to the calf could require considerably more skill.
Jeff’s sense of Skill = 0
Azurescens September 4, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Wow…alot of these guys are assholes. If I hit someone that hard I think I’d make sure they were ok before I ran for high fives from my team. It’s the difference between being a “professional” athelete and an arrogant prick who can run fast and throw a ball.
JoeMoe September 5, 2009 at 12:13 am
Let’s call this list like it is…the best hits you found on youtube.
Did you even look at what you found…the 31st hit is high school..not college
FYI, I have no idea why I get complex magazine in my mail. You guys really don’t need to send it to me
Complex Media September 8, 2009 at 11:44 am
Thanks for the correction. #31 is fixed!
Wale September 6, 2009 at 11:31 am
JoeMoe you’re a hater, suck a dick with aids on the tip. Even if number 31 was high school there are some serious fucking hits on this list. Pay homage you dirtbag.
Sole_on_ice September 6, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Sean Taylor should have been #1
JoeMoe September 7, 2009 at 1:32 am
Wale, yes yes, you’re right…I pay homage. Complex has “mad skillz” at using youtube search. Since you work for the website, can you cancel my “subscription” to the magazine?
Javi September 7, 2009 at 2:18 am
These are some awesome hits… Some are unfortunate, but it’s a violent game, and the player play it with a lot of adrenaline that’s why they high five each other after these collisions.
I don’t think they want to maim there opponent, they just want to inflict punishment!
ty September 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Laron Landry
Sean Taylor
Kevin Barnes
Lavar Arrington
All are or were Redskins
tk September 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm
#13 is not Alex Kanellis, he played DE for Iowa a couple years back.
mark September 8, 2009 at 2:34 pm
ball hitting defender in the back = pass interference
fsufan September 8, 2009 at 5:24 pm
You missed one. FSU’s Stanford Samuels drilled Roscoe Parrish so hard that he was sent the the hospital with internal bleeding. It’s the hardest hit I’ve ever seen and I was lucky to be there in the stands to see it. I could hear him get tagged 40 rows up. Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1aMu2pDOg
MasterMatt September 8, 2009 at 5:56 pm
How could Roy Williams (safety for Oklahoma) lighting up Tatem Bell (Running back Oklahoma State) not make the list? It was a momentum changing hit that was a HUGE decleater at the line of scrimmage that started the legend of Roy, which culminated in his superman tackle and forced fumble of Chris Simms in the Red River Shootout.
Steve September 8, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Two hits that should be top ten.
1) Greg Jones running over Sean Taylor
2) Stamford Samuels, crushing Roscoe Parrish. Parrish had to be rushed to the hospital and stayed for 3 days, with internal bleeding.
Look them both up on Youtube. The Parrish hit should be #1
Tucker September 8, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Some solid hits, but who the hell ranked these? There were some top 20 that didn’t even belong on the list.
Tom September 9, 2009 at 12:36 am
Gary Guyton from Georgia Tech. Check out the 3rd angle on this video- looks like he snapped his spine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTRRXfdQng
The Devil September 9, 2009 at 1:55 am
Damn good post, fuck the haters.
The one with the quarterback that looked like “Faces of Death” should’ve been no.1
I’m still watching it trying to figure out how that guy’s not paralyzed for life from those hits.
M fan September 9, 2009 at 10:06 am
Never mind the fact that a large number of these hits were illegal, including some that were not called. Major Wright’s hit on Manny Johnson in the NC was definitely illegal and I think was ruled as such. The hit by an MSU player on the Wisco player was spearing and should have been called.
QBPrincess September 9, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I feel sorry for the kids, but why was he that close to the playing field anyway???
beerbear13 September 12, 2009 at 2:26 am
all of these were great hits…there was one i was hoping would have been on here though. Back in 1995, tony brackens (DE for Texas) absolutely pummeled the place kicker on a fake and knocked him out of the game. He knocked him from the field to the track surrounding the field at that time.