Before 2023, Ezekiel Elliott rushed for the most yards in playoff games, with 476 yards.

most rushing yards by a player in cfp games through 2022

	NAME	RUSH YDS	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Ezekiel Elliott E. Elliott	476	2	56	8.5	238.0	6	12	2	3	6.0	6.0	0
2	Najee Harris N. Harris	372	6	58	6.4	62.0	2	135	13	16	10.4	22.5	1
3	Travis Etienne T. Etienne	363	6	67	5.4	60.5	6	211	14	17	15.1	35.2	3
4	Brian Robinson Jr. B. Robinson Jr.	351	5	61	5.8	70.2	0	28	4	4	7.0	5.6	0
5	Bo Scarbrough B. Scarbrough	337	5	54	6.2	67.4	4	24	5	8	4.8	4.8	0
6	Derrick Henry D. Henry	328	3	69	4.8	109.3	6	48	3	4	16.0	16.0	0
7	Wayne Gallman W. Gallman	326	4	76	4.3	81.5	5	110	7	9	15.7	27.5	0
8	Deshaun Watson D. Watson	318	4	80	4.0	79.5	4
9	Sony Michel S. Michel	279	2	25	11.2	139.5	3	41	4	8	10.3	20.5	1
10	Damien Harris D. Harris	255	7	64	4.0	36.4	2	47	9	10	5.2	6.7	0
11	Trey Sermon T. Sermon	248	5	43	5.8	49.6	2	61	4	7	15.3	12.2	0
12	Jalen Hurts J. Hurts	243	7	62	3.9	34.7	3	9	1	1	9.0	1.3	0
13	Emari Demercado E. Demercado	209	2	31	6.7	104.5	1	-4	2	3	-2.0	-2.0	0
14	Rodney Anderson R. Anderson	201	1	26	7.7	201.0	2	-2	1	2	-2.0	-2.0	0
15	Thomas Tyner T. Tyner	186	2	25	7.4	93.0	2	2	2	2	1.0	1.0	0
16	Trevor Lawrence T. Lawrence	181	5	49	3.7	36.2	3	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	J.K. Dobbins	174	1	18	9.7	174.0	1	47	6	8	7.8	47.0	0
18	Nick Chubb N. Chubb	170	2	32	5.3	85.0	2	-1	1	1	-1.0	-0.5	0
19	Josh Jacobs J. Jacobs	169	6	31	5.5	28.2	0	76	8	10	9.5	12.7	1
20	Zamir White Z. White	138	2	25	5.5	69.0	1	10	2	3	5.0	5.0	0
21	Donovan Edwards D. Edwards	135	2	27	5.0	67.5	0	57	4	10	14.3	28.5	0
22	Kenny McIntosh K. McIntosh	131	4	17	7.7	32.8	0	110	12	13	9.2	27.5	1
23	Daijun Edwards D. Edwards	126	4	17	7.4	31.5	0	21	3	5	7.0	5.3	0
24	Clyde Edwards-Helaire C. Edwards-Helaire	124	2	18	6.9	62.0	0	54	5	8	10.8	27.0	0
25	Justin Fields J. Fields	122	3	28	4.4	40.7	0	0	0	0		0.0	0