Top 10 Running Backs heading into 2026! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Who are the best running backs heading into the 2026 college football season? Can Kewan Lacey get Ole Miss back to the CFP, how much better can a healthy Isaac Brown be at Louisville, what impact will the transfers have at Oklahoma State and West Virginia and can anyone challenge the SEC as the best conference for running backs in 2026? McElroy goes over all of it plus gives you some honorable mention RBs who could work their way into the top 10 after the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.1	It's probably one of the better running back groups we've seen in the SEC in quite some
0:29.5	time.
0:29.8	So I think the SEC will get that trophy, which one of the three wins it.
0:33.2	We shall find out.
0:38.6	Hello and welcome in.
0:39.8	It's always college football.
0:40.8	I'm your host, Craig McElroy.
0:41.9	So happy to have you here with us today
0:44.2	as we unveil another top 10 in our position rankings.
0:49.3	Today, it's the running back.
0:50.8	They've told us for a while now that running back's dying.
0:53.8	That the air raid and the passing attacks, they killed it. They've told us for a while now that running back's dying, that the air raid and
0:55.2	the passing attacks, they killed it. They said that the offense that we see now in college football
0:59.8	has made the position obsolete or very replaceable. They said that the future of college football
1:05.1	was going to live in an empty backfield set where guys just kind of pitch it around the yard and you
1:09.7	score and four plays or less and
1:12.1	you go home. Y'all, the running backs coming back in cultural ball this year, they did not get that
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