Unlike professional leagues, no one player has had his number retired by two teams.
Unlike major sports leagues in the United States such as MLB (which retired Jackie Robinson's number 42) and the NHL (which did so for Wayne Gretzky's 99), the NCAA has never retired a jersey number league-wide in honor of anyone.
[1] The same did Brigham Young University (BYU), retiring number 6 for three different footballers, Marc Wilson, Robbie Bosco, and Luke Staley.
There are also some strange cases such as UCLA retiring #42 for Jackie Robinson; although he wore No.
42 because it was more identified with him after Robinson wore that number throughout his Hall of Fame baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Pittsburgh Panthers retired numbers at Acrisure Stadium, September 2011
Johnny Unitas' #16 was retired by Louisville in 2003
Roger Staubach's #12 was retired by the Naval Academy in 1965
Dan Marino's #13 was retired by Pittsburgh
Brett Favre's #4, retired by Southern Miss in 2015
Troy Aikman's #8, retired by UCLA
John Elway has his #7 retired by Stanford
Peyton Manning's #16 was retired by Tennessee in 2005
Michigan retired #11 in honor of Whitey Wistert (photo) and his two brothers
Doc Blanchard's #35, retired by Army
Colt McCoy's #12, retired by the Texas Longhorns
Gerald Ford with Michigan in 1933. His number 48 was retired by the program
Frank Sinkwich's #21, retired by Georgia
Andre Ware's #11, retired by Houston
Sam Huff's #75 was retired by West Virginia in 2005
Nile Kinnick's #24, retired by Iowa
Howard Cassady's #40 was retired by Ohio State
Missouri retired #23 in honor of Roger Wehrli (photo) and Johnny Roland
Steve Largent has his #83 retired by Tulsa
Joe Greene's #75, retired by North Texas
Bill Dudley's #35 was retired by Virginia
Elroy Hirsch's #40 was retired by Wisconsin in 2005
John Mackey's #88, retired by Syracuse
Jackie Robinson's #42 was retired across all UCLA sports in 2014
Randall Cunningham's #17, the only number retired by UNLV
Jan Stenerud's #78 was retired by Montana State
Eddie LeBaron's #40 was retired by Pacific
Kyle Arrington's #24, retired by Hofstra
Frank Beamers's #25 was retired by Virginia Tech in 2002
