1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team

The 1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The selectors for the 1995 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the Big Eight Conference coaches (Coaches). The 1995 team was the final All-Big Eight football team due to the conference's merger in 1996 with four teams from the Southwest Conference to form the Big 12 Conference.[1]

1995 Big Eight Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 Nebraska $ 7 0 0  12 0 0
No. 5 Colorado 5 2 0  10 2 0
No. 7 Kansas State 5 2 0  10 2 0
No. 9 Kansas 5 2 0  10 2 0
Oklahoma 2 5 0  5 5 1
Oklahoma State 2 5 0  4 8 0
Missouri 1 6 0  3 8 0
Iowa State 1 6 0  3 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Four teams from the Big Eight Conference finished among the top ten in the final AP Poll of the 1995 season, and players from those teams dominated the All-Big Eight selections. The four ranked teams were:

Troy Davis of Iowa State and David Thompson of Oklahoma State were the consensus first-team running backs. Stephen Alexander of Oklahoma was the consensus first-team tight end.

Offensive selections

Quarterbacks

Running backs

Tight ends

Wide receivers

  • Rae Carruth, Colorado (AP-1; Coaches-1)
  • Kevin Lockett, Kansas State (AP-1)
  • Mitch Running, Kansas State (AP-2; Coaches-2 [tie])
  • Phil Savoy, Colorado (AP-2)
  • Ashaundai Smith, Kansas (Coaches-2 [tie])
  • James Kidd, Colorado (Coaches-2 [tie])

Centers

Offensive linemen

  • Chris Naeole, Colorado (AP-1; Coaches-1 [OG])
  • Heath Irwin, Colorado (AP-1; Coaches-1 [tie at OG])
  • Chris Banks, Kansas (AP-1; Coaches-1 [tie at OG])
  • Aaron Taylor, Nebraska (AP-1; Coaches-2 [OG])
  • Chris Dishman, Nebraska (AP-2; Coaches-1 [OT])
  • Eric Anderson, Nebraska (Coaches-1 [OT])
  • Chris Oltmanns, Kansas State (AP-2; Coaches-2 [OT])
  • Tim Kohn, Iowa State (AP-2; Coaches-2 [OT])
  • Rod Jones, Kansas (AP-2)

Defensive selections

Defensive lineman

  • Tim Colston, Kansas State (AP-1; Coaches-1)
  • Cedric Jones, Oklahoma (AP-1; Coaches-1 [DE])
  • Christian Peter, Nebraska (AP-1; Coaches-1)
  • Kerry Hicks, Colorado (AP-2; Coaches-1)
  • Grant Wistrom, Nebraska (AP-2 [LB]; Coaches-1 [DE])
  • Steve Martin, Missouri (AP-2; Coaches-2)
  • Dirk Ochs, Kansas State (AP-2; Coaches-2 [tie at DE])
  • Keith Rogers, Kansas (AP-2 [LB]; Coaches-2 [tie at DE])
  • Jared Tomich, Nebraska (Coaches-2 [tie at DE])
  • Greg Jones, Colorado (AP-2 [LB]; Coaches-2 [tie at DE]

Linebackers

  • Matt Russell, Colorado (AP-1; Coaches-1 [ILB])
  • Percell Gaskins, Kansas State (AP-1; Coaches-2 [ILB])
  • Terrell Farley, Nebraska (AP-1; Coaches-2 [ILB]))
  • Jared Tomich, Nebraska (AP-1)
  • Tyrell Peters, Oklahoma (Coaches-1 [ILB])
  • Jason Thoren, Kansas (Coaches-2)

Defensive backs

Special teams

Place-kickers

  • Jeremy Alexander, Oklahoma (AP-1; Coaches-2 [tie])
  • Neil Voskeritchian, Colorado (AP-2; Coaches-1)
  • Lawson Vaughn, Oklahoma State (Coaches-2 [tie])

Punters

  • Greg Ivy, Oklahoma State (AP-1; Coaches-1)
  • Darrin Simmons, Kansas (AP-2; Coaches-2)

Return specialists

  • R. W. McQuarters, Oklahoma State (Coaches-1)
  • Reggie Baul, Nebraska (Coaches-2 [tie])
  • Ashaundai Smith, Kansas (Coaches-2 [tie])

Key

AP = Associated Press[2]

Coaches = selected by the Big Eight Conference coaches[3]

Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the Associated Press and Coaches

See also

References

  1. "SWC goes quietly into the night as the Big 12 arrives". The Palm Beach Post. January 2, 1996. p. 9C.
  2. "1995 AP All-Big Eight football team". The Salina Journal. November 24, 1995. p. C2.
  3. "1995 Coaches All-Big Eight football team". News-Leader (Springfield, MO). November 29, 1995. p. 2D.
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