Super Bowl Preview: Steelers in College
February 1, 2009 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Football
The 2009 Super Bowl should be quite the showdown between two teams that no one, at the beginning of the year, would have guess would be playing in the title game.
Let’s take a look at the Steelers Roster…where were they in college?
- Alabama: Fernando Bryant, Anthony Madison, Dechea Townsend
- Arizona State: Marvel Smith
- Auburn: Kendall Simmons
- Baylor: Daniel Sepulveda
- BYU: Brett Keisel, Chris Hoke
- Clemson: Nick Eason
- Cincinnati: Andre Frazier
- Colorado: Mitch Berger
- Duke: Patrick Bailey
- Eastern Michigan: Charlie Batch
- Florida: Max Starks
- Florida State: Orpheus Roye, Lawrence Timmons, Bryant McFadden
- Georgia: Hines Ward, Arnold Harrison
- Georgia Tech: Keyaron Fox
- Hofstra: Willie Colon
- Illinois: Carey Davis, Rashard Mendenhall
- Iowa: Mike Humpal
- Indiana-PA: Jason Capizzi
- Kansas: Justin Hartwig
- Kent State: James Harrison
- Louisiana-Lafayette: Ike Taylor
- Louisville: William Gay
- LSU: Ryan Clark
- Marshall: Byron Leftwhich
- Miami-OH: Ben Roethlisberger
- Michigan: Larry Foote, LaMarr Woodley
- Minnesota: Gary Russell, Matt Spaeth, Tyrone Carter
- North Carolina: Willie Parker, Greg Warren, Aaron Smith, Jeff Reed
- Northwestern: Trai Essex
- Northwood, FL: Kyle Clement
- Penn State: Sean McHugh, Scott Paxson
- Princeton: Jonathan Dekker
- Ohio State: Santonio Holmes
- Oregon: Dennis Dixon
- Rutgers: Darnell Stapleton
- Southern Mississippi: Jeremy Parquet
- Syracuse: Anthony Smith
- Texas: Limas Sweed, Tony Hills, Casey Hampton
- Texas Christian: Jared Retkofsky
- Tiffin University: Nate Washington
- Tulane: Mewelde Moore
- UCLA: Travis Kirschke, Bruce Davis
- USC: Troy Polamalu
- Utah: Chris Kemoeatu
- Virginia: Heath Miller, James Farrior
North Carolina is the school most represented, and other schools with more than one player on the roster are Alabama, BYU, Florida State, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, UCLA, and Virginia.
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