Talk:NCAA Division I FBS rushing leaders

Whether to include stats from bowl games prior to 2002 season

Official NCAA records do not include statistics from bowl games played before the 2002 season. However, some online recordkeeping sites (such as sports-reference.com) do. Over time, editors of this article have been inconsistent — sometimes inadvertently and other times likely deliberately — with regard to which of these guidelines to follow. In many cases, an editor has moved a pre-2002 player up the list by adding in that player's bowl-games numbers, but has not followed through by updating all other pre-2002 players accordingly. In at least one case, a listed player (Damion Fletcher) was deleted in a perhaps overzealous edit of this sort. Over time, this sort of editing makes the overall ranking relatively meaningless.

I have taken the rather bold step of creating separate tables: one with all yardage shown (including in bowl games prior to the 2002 season), and another that — consistent with official NCAA records — does not. If it is not an ideal solution, it is at least a sincere effort to address the inconsistency of previous editing. 24.243.2.93 (talk) 16:44, 27 October 2019 (UTC)