most return yards in college football history

Brandon James has the most career return yards, with 4,179 yards.

Interpreted as:

most return yards by a player in college football history

	NAME	RET YDS	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Brandon James B. James	4,179	52	115	2,796	24.3	53.8	1	118	1,383	11.7	26.6	4
2	Damaris Johnson D. Johnson	3,988	39	134	3,417	25.5	87.6	2	47	571	12.1	14.6	2
3	Javier Arenas J. Arenas	3,921	52	90	2,166	24.1	41.7	0	123	1,755	14.3	33.8	7
4	Kevin Robinson K. Robinson	3,829	51	110	2,725	24.8	53.4	4	78	1,104	14.2	21.6	4
5	Leodis McKelvin L. McKelvin	3,817	45	99	2,346	23.7	52.1	1	112	1,471	13.1	32.7	7
6	T.J. Graham	3,781	46	137	3,153	23.0	68.5	2	66	628	9.5	13.7	2
7	David Gilreath D. Gilreath	3,746	50	134	3,008	22.4	60.2	1	74	738	10.0	14.8	1
8	Tyron Carrier T. Carrier	3,667	53	141	3,517	24.9	66.4	7	15	150	10.0	2.8	0
9	Troy Stoudermire T. Stoudermire	3,623	54	144	3,615	25.1	66.9	0	6	8	1.3	0.1	0
10	Steve Breaston S. Breaston	3,592	53	81	1,993	24.6	37.6	1	127	1,599	12.6	30.2	4
11	Kerwynn Williams K. Williams	3,543	49	135	3,408	25.2	69.6	1	11	135	12.3	2.8	0
12	Brandon Tate B. Tate	3,523	41	109	2,688	24.7	65.6	3	79	835	10.6	20.4	3
13	Perrish Cox P. Cox	3,498	49	117	2,804	24.0	57.2	4	60	694	11.6	14.2	2
14	CJ Sanders	3,489	54	127	3,166	24.9	58.6	5	40	323	8.1	6.0	1
15	Darius Phillips D. Phillips	3,472	51	129	3,145	24.4	61.7	5	32	327	10.2	6.4	1
16	T.Y. Hilton	3,469	50	105	2,855	27.2	57.1	4	49	614	12.5	12.3	2
17	Brelan Chancellor B. Chancellor	3,461	41	125	3,027	24.2	73.8	3	45	434	9.6	10.6	1
18	Janarion Grant J. Grant	3,459	49	118	2,872	24.3	58.6	5	52	587	11.3	12.0	3
19	Deltha O'Neal D. O'Neal	3,455	44	93	2,286	24.6	52.0	1	110	1,169	10.6	26.6	1
20	Antonio Brown A. Brown	3,434	41	113	2,612	23.1	63.7	2	53	822	15.5	20.0	3
21	Derek Abney D. Abney	3,357	45	95	2,315	24.4	51.4	2	88	1,042	11.8	23.2	6
22	Phillip Livas P. Livas	3,345	45	107	2,758	25.8	61.3	4	43	587	13.7	13.0	4
23	Will Blackmon W. Blackmon	3,309	46	114	2,803	24.6	60.9	1	50	506	10.1	11.0	1
24	Domanick Davis D. Davis	3,294	46	95	2,168	22.8	47.1	0	94	1,126	12.0	24.5	2
25	Michael Walker M. Walker	3,292	48	106	2,656	25.1	55.3	0	48	636	13.3	13.3	1