1978 College Football All-America Team |
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College Football All-America Team |
1978 NCAA Division I-A football season |
1976 1977 ← → 1979 1980 |
The 1978 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1978. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes four selectors as "official" for the 1978 season. They are: [1] (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) based on the input of more than 2,000 voting members; [2] (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; [3] (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers; [4] and (4) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers. [5] Other selectors included Football News (FN), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), [6] The Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).