Rochester Post Bulletin: Gophers' Cobb is inching toward record book

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per the Post Bulletin:

David Cobb continues to be one of the best success stories in Minnesota football history.

Listed as the team's No. 3 running back to begin last year, Cobb still managed to finish the season with 1,202 yards rushing, the first Gopher to go over 1,000 since Amir Pinnix in 2006.

This year he's taken things up another notch. After romping for 145 yards Saturday in a 31-24 loss Saturday to vaunted Ohio State, Cobb has now rushed for 1,350 yards this season. It puts the 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior in great position to break Minnesota's single-season rushing record of 1,464 yards, set in 2005 by NFL first-round draft pick Laurence Maroney.

http://www.postbulletin.com/sports/...cle_2edad71b-f95b-559a-86a1-ccd67fe96e4d.html

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per ESPN:

Record-setting rushing Saturday: No, not last Saturday. This Saturday. Three Big Ten running backs could break their respective schools' single-season rushing records -- all within hours of one another. Minnesota's David Cobb needs just 115 yards, Indiana's Tevin Coleman is just 128 yards shy, and Melvin Gordon needs to follow up his incredible effort against Nebraska with just 201 yards. Barring the unforeseen, all these records will fall this season. And it's incredible to think they could all fall within three or four hours of one another, and all on Game 11.

The longest-standing record is over at Indiana, where Vaughn Dunbar set the mark of 1,805 yards back in 1991. The shortest? Minnesota, where Laurence Maroney had 1,464 yards in 2005. (Wisconsin's Ron Dayne set the record of 2,109 yards in 1996.) This is one rare crop of Big Ten running backs, and it'd be even rarer to watch all three of these rushing records fall in one day. Don't blink Saturday.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/111187/big-ten-morning-links-73

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Amazing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Dayne and Dunbar playing in a shorter season?
 

Nice comment from Maroney:

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Studwell55 said:
Amazing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Dayne and Dunbar playing in a shorter season?
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Dayne set the record in 13 games in 1996 (they played Hawaii that year and thus had the extra game allowed on their schedule); Dunbar did it in 12 games in 1991.
 



It is mind boggling to me to know that Barry Sanders set the all time season record of 2628 yards in 11 games.
 

It surprises me that Minnesota's record is "only" 1464. With the great backs we have had over the years I would think it might be higher than that. I guess during the Mason years there were always multiple backs getting carries, Barber, Maroney etc.
 

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