The Most Underrated Thing Was …
The backup quarterbacks aren’t as good as the starting ones.
From the Department of No Duh, yeah, the team probably isn’t as strong with the No. 2 guy on the depth chart at the most important position.
Unlike the NFL where injury reports force coaches and teams to disclose the quarterback situations before games, college football teams don’t have to say a thing until the offense is on the field for the opening snap.
Oregon State was able to come back and beat Stanford without normal starter Chance Nolan. However, Arkansas sure wasn’t the same team without KJ Jefferson against Mississippi State, and Kentucky was a shadow of itself without Will Levis.
Texas was able to rip trough Oklahoma without Dillon Gabriel, Alabama almost lost to Texas A&M without Bryce Young, Kansas wasn’t able to keep up the pace with Jalon Daniels out after getting hurt against TCU.
Texas Tech’s No. 3 QB Behren Morton was good, but he wasn’t able to put enough points up on the board in the second half against Oklahoma State.
Now more than ever – considering how concussions have become front and center as an existential crisis for the NFL – quarterback safety will take on a whole new scrutiny, and rightly so. But in a transfer portal era that spreads out the talent level across college football – things will get a tad thin at times over the second half of the season.
– Winners & Losers Passing games, interim coaches
– Alabama struggled again One Really Big Thing
– Texas blew out Oklahoma Most Overrated Thing
– CFP might be wide open What It All Means, Week 6