Reggie Bush is unquestionably the greatest No. 5 in college football history

FOX College Football asked who is the best No. 5 in history. The answer is obvious: Reggie Bush.

Dear FOX College Football, we know times are tough and all with no sports. Trust us, we know.

But if you’re going to ask hypothetical questions about the best players in college football history, at least make them difficult to answer or even debate worthy.

Tuesday, the question was posed: Who is the best player in college football history to wear No. 5?

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The answer is so obvious it shouldn’t even be a question.

Reggie Bush is the best player in college football history to wear No. 5. No ifs, ands or buts. (Unless they’re “IF you think otherwise you’re insane” or “AND that’s a fact” or “BUT those other guys are solid seconds.”)

Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter what any of the other programs tried to spin about their No. 5’s either. It’s all spin.

Texas Tech offered Michael Crabtree and Patrick Mahomes…

NOPE.

USC has had Biletnikoff winning receivers better than Crabtree. As for Mahomes, why? His greatness in the NFL shouldn’t be a factor here.

Syracuse wants to push for Donovan McNabb.

Nope. He wasn’t even an All-American.

West Virginia tried to make the case for Pat White with…bowl wins.

Again, nope.

Sorry, winning the Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and the Meineke Car Care Bowl is great, but just no.

What about Stanford’s offering of Christian McCaffrey?

Nope.

McCaffrey walked in the shadow of Bush. He may be as close to a Bush clone as college football has seen in the last 15 years, but he’s not the original.

Then there’s TCU pushing perhaps the strongest challenger, LaDainian Tomlinson.

And still…Nope.

The other LT is one of the all-time NFL greats, but his No. 21 with the Chargers doesn’t count towards this discussion. Sure, he had a 2,000-yard season in college, but Bush had a yards per carry average a full yard and half better than what Tomlinson did a mid-major-at-the-time TCU.

USC football’s Reggie Bush was also a different kind of playmaker. He was electric like a video game creation, capable of taking it to the house on every single carry. He made fools of entire defenses, putting jaws on the ground with his speed and shifty moves.

He was, as ESPN put it, an “unstoppable force”:

Rest the case. It’s Reggie.