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<blockquote data-quote="jojatk" data-source="post: 738742" data-attributes="member: 2627"><p>Actually you're both right in terms of the definition of the word consensus. According to Merriam-Webster (hopefully that's a good enough source to quote) a consensus can refer to unanimity or it can refer to most. Dictionary.com says "general agreement" and "majority of opinion."</p><p></p><p>However, a consensus All-American is defined as a player who is recognized as a first team all-american by at least HALF of the recognized lists. A unanimous all-american is one who is listed as a first team all-american on all lists. So a unanimous all-american is also a consensus all-american but a consensus all-american is not necessarily a unanimous all-american. Here are a few links I found to substantiate that if you're interested: </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/12/14/college-football-unanimous-consensus-all-americans/1769911/[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/All-American[/URL]</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America</a> (I generally don't love Wikipedia as a source but in this case it confirms what I read elsewhere)</p><p></p><p>I also found numerous college team sites that talk about various players achieving consensus status and talking about the various lists on which they were named 1st team all-american and that if they are named on one or two others they'd be unanimous as well as consensus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jojatk, post: 738742, member: 2627"] Actually you're both right in terms of the definition of the word consensus. According to Merriam-Webster (hopefully that's a good enough source to quote) a consensus can refer to unanimity or it can refer to most. Dictionary.com says "general agreement" and "majority of opinion." However, a consensus All-American is defined as a player who is recognized as a first team all-american by at least HALF of the recognized lists. A unanimous all-american is one who is listed as a first team all-american on all lists. So a unanimous all-american is also a consensus all-american but a consensus all-american is not necessarily a unanimous all-american. Here are a few links I found to substantiate that if you're interested: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/12/14/college-football-unanimous-consensus-all-americans/1769911/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/All-American[/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America[/URL] (I generally don't love Wikipedia as a source but in this case it confirms what I read elsewhere) I also found numerous college team sites that talk about various players achieving consensus status and talking about the various lists on which they were named 1st team all-american and that if they are named on one or two others they'd be unanimous as well as consensus. [/QUOTE]
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