Editing Eddie George (section)

==College career==
George attended  Ohio State University, where he majored in landscape architecture and played for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. As a freshman running back, George scored three rushing touchdowns in a win over [[1992 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]], but he suffered a major setback in a game against [[1992 Illinois Fighting Illini football team|Illinois]]. In that game, George lost a fumble at the Illinois four-yard line that was returned 96 yards for a touchdown. Later in the game, with Ohio State leading by two points in the final quarter, George fumbled again, this time on Illinois' one-yard line. Illinois recovered the fumble and drove for the game-winning touchdown.

Before the Illinois game, George had carried the ball 25 times and scored five touchdowns, but he had only 12 more rushing attempts and no more touchdowns for the rest of the year. In the following season, George was listed in the depth chart as the team's third-string running back, behind [[Raymont Harris]]. He carried the ball just 42 times, mostly when Ohio State had a large lead late in games, but showed his potential by averaging 5.3 yards per carry. As a junior, George became the team's starting running back and went on to rush for 1,442 yards and 12 touchdowns.

As a senior in the 1995 season, George rushed for a school-record 1,927 yards and 24 touchdowns, an average of 148.23 yards per game, while also catching 47 passes for 417 yards and another score (George only caught 16 passes in his first three seasons). One of his best performances of the year was in a 45–26 win over [[1995 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]], where he rushed for 207 yards, his third 200-yard game of the season. He also rushed for a school-record 314 yards and scored three touchdowns in OSU's victory over [[1995 Illinois Fighting Illini football team|Illinois]].

In the three years after his two fumbles as a freshman, George had over 600 rushing attempts and fumbled only six times. Ohio State finished the season with an 11–2 record. George was recognized as a [[unanimous All-American]]. He won the [[Heisman Trophy]] in the closest vote in the history of the award at the time, beating [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]]'s [[Tommie Frazier]] by 264 votes. George left Ohio State second in school history in career rushing yards (3,768) and third in rushing touchdowns (44). Overall, he finished with 4,284 all-purpose yards, 45 touchdowns, and a 5.5 yards per carry average.

===College statistics===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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! rowspan="2"| Season
! rowspan="2"| Team
! rowspan="2"| GP
! colspan="4"| Rushing
! colspan="3"| Receiving
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! Att !! Yds !! Avg !! TD !! Rec !! Yds !! TD
|-
! [[1992 NCAA Division I-A football season|1992]] || [[1992 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]
| 11 || 37 || 176 || 4.8 || 5 || — || — || —
|-
! [[1993 NCAA Division I-A football season|1993]] || [[1993 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]
| 12 || 42 || 223 || 5.3 || 3 || — || — || —
|-
! [[1994 NCAA Division I-A football season|1994]] || [[1994 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]
| 13 || 276 || 1,442 || 5.2 || 12 || 16 || 117 || 0
|-
! [[1995 NCAA Division I-A football season|1995]] || [[1995 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]
| 13 || 328 || 1,927 || 5.9 || 24 || 47 || 417 || 1
|-
! colspan="2"|[https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/eddie-george-1.html Career] || 49 || 683 || 3,768 || 5.5 || 44 || 63 || 534 || 1
|}