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🏈 2024 College Football Quarterback Stats & Rankings 📈
Updating schedule-adjusted Points Above Replacement (PAR) for every FBS quarterback this season.
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The College Football Teams Who Are Overachieving — Or Falling Short — In 2024
Let's compare each FBS program to their recent standard of performance.
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Will College Football’s Logjam Sort Itself Out?
If rankings history is a guide, things will find a way to get clearer by the conference championships.
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QB U: Are Quarterbacks Losing Their Heisman Trophy Grip?
Plus, Navy — yes, Navy! — has an offensive juggernaut.
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QB U: When Alabama and Georgia Became Quarterback Factories
Plus, the QB epicenter of the country is the Gulf Coastal Plain.
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QB U: Arch Manning Has Entered the Chat
Plus, Bama's NFL QB problems, and the Josh Heupel Bowl.
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QB U: When the Stars Aligned for This Week’s Top Matchups
Revisiting the seasons when the teams in this week's top matchups were at their peak, led by their star quarterbacks.
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QB U: Remembering Some Guys from Texas, Michigan and the Rest of the Week’s Top Matchups
Let's highlight the top modern quarterback seasons from the Wolverines and Longhorns, plus Boise State, Oregon, Tennessee and NC State.
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QB U: Top 5 Quarterback Matchups of Week 1 (Based on 2023 Stats)
Let's kick off a college QB column with a ranking of this week's best matchups, on paper.
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Back for More: The Best Returning QBs in College Football for 2024
Whether coming back to the same team or transferring elsewhere, these FBS quarterbacks bring the most value back from last season.
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Ex-Pac-12 Teams Will Face Some of The Worst Travel Distances in Power-Conference History
That's in the modern era of power conferences, at least. (Good luck to Cal and UCLA in particular.)
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Will a 12-Team Format Finally Free Penn State from Playoff Purgatory?
No team was closer — but never quite good enough — in the CFP's original four-team era.
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