Texas A&M Aggies Legend Somehow Left Off Top-25 List

With the offseason nearly over for the Texas A&M Aggies and college football as a whole, so too comes to an end the time known as 'talking season.'

Talking season consists of, fittingly, simply talking about the sport, the upcoming season, and perhaps reminiscing on years past. In this case, remembering legendary players of the past was on the docket for ESPN college football writer Bill Connelly.

Connelly ranked the 25 best college football players from this century, meaning that they made their mark after the year 2000. While some phenomenal and legendary players made the list, there was one incredibly glaring omission. Former Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel was not on the list.

Even if the list included players from throughout the entire history of the sport, leaving Manziel out would still be absurd. But to not include him in a collection of the 25 best players of the last roughly 25 years is flat-out stupid. Not only did Manziel not make Connelly's top-25, he was even left out of the next ten honorable mentions.

It's a glaring sign of disrespect to a player who was arguably the best college football quarterback of the 2010s and certainly someone who the story of college football over the last 25 years could not be told without. 

Manziel's 2012 season in which he threw for nearly 4,000 yards and rushed for nearly 1,500 yards along with accounting for 47 total touchdowns will go down as one of the best the sport has ever seen and saw him become the first-ever freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.

As if that wasn't enough, he would follow that up with a season in 2013 during which he would throw for more yards and more touchdowns on less attempts than in 2012, all while captivating a nation and becoming one of the most polarizing college athletes to ever exist.

Leaving Manziel off a list of the 25 best players since 2000 is not just stupid, it's downright delusional.