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CBS Sports updates its QB power rankings entering Week 7

Quinn Ewers is flying up the quarterback rankings.

CBS Sports has updated its quarterback power rankings as we reach the halfway mark of the college football season.

Ohio State’s CJ Stroud tops the list as the nation’s best quarterback. He is the spearhead of the Buckeye’s dynamic offense, which leads the country in scoring.

Right behind Stroud on the list is Tennesse signal caller Hendon Hooker. Hooker has the Vols in the top 10 following a dominant performance against LSU.

One of the quickest risers up the list is Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers. After missing three games due to injury, he returned in epic fashion, throwing for four touchdowns in a 49-0 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners. Ewers jumped all the way up to No. 3 in the rankings after his big-time performance.

Fellow offseason transfer Caleb Williams is having a great campaign at USC. He has the Trojans at 6-0 entering a huge matchup against No. 20 this weekend.

Injuries have shaken up CBS Sports’ rankings as Alabama quarterback Bryce Young and Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel are both missing time.

Here is a complete look a CBS Sports’ top 10 quarterbacks entering Week 7.

Top 10 career passers in Notre Dame history

When you’ve played football as long as Notre Dame has your record books end up looking pretty impressive. That’s the case when you look at the best quarterbacks to ever play at Notre Dame. So who holds the records and even more impressively, who are …

When you’ve played football as long as Notre Dame has your record books end up looking pretty impressive.  That’s the case when you look at the best quarterbacks to ever play at Notre Dame.

So who holds the records and even more impressively, who are some of the megastars you remember who didn’t make the top 10?

Here are Notre Dame’s top ten career passers:

Notre Dame Football: PFF Quarterback rankings – where does Ian Book rank?

Pro Football Focus does a great job of breaking down the game and evaluating how well or poorly individuals perform. They recently ranked the would-be 130 starting quarterbacks in FBS ahead of the 2020 season. The first couple are obvious in Trevor …

Pro Football Focus does a great job of breaking down the game and evaluating how well or poorly individuals perform.

They recently ranked the would-be 130 starting quarterbacks in FBS ahead of the 2020 season. The first couple are obvious in Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields, but Ian Book checks in all the way at 17.

Here’s what they say about Notre Dame’s Ian Book:

While his 2019 production was skewed heavily by three lights-out performances against the bad defenses of New Mexico, Bowling Green and Navy, Book had very few errant throws to speak of over the year, finishing the season with the fifth-lowest rate of QB-fault incompletions in 2019. The reason to worry about Book in 2020 is the 29 sacks he has invited since 2018, the most in the FBS over that span.

I like Ian Book a lot but 17 seems pretty fair when you consider where his game needs developing. Can he get better at identifying coverages and defenses pre-snap?

If so you might not be looking at a guy that sky-rockets towards the top of this list, but one you could certainly consider in the top ten despite not having a rocket arm that that many of those ahead of him possess.

Trevor Lawrence of Clemson checked in first while Sam Howell or North Carolina was fourth. Those were the only two quarterbacks Notre Dame will see in 2020 that were ranked higher than Book.

Notre Dame Football: Quarterbacks Get Insight From Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner followed through his plan promise earlier this week to sit down with the Notre Dame quarterback room including Ian Book.

There aren’t a lot of stories that are better than the sudden rise of Kurt Warner from grocery store clerk to NFL and Super Bowl MVP in 1999.  He came from nowhere and would eventually end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a stop with the New York Giants and leading the Arizona Cardinals to a Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XLIII.

Since retiring Warner has become a part of both Westwood One and NFL Network’s coverage of the game.  This week Warner followed through on a request made from Notre Dame tight ends coach and former Cardinals staffer John McNulty.

McNulty shot his shot and landed Notre Dame quarterbacks a chance to visit with Warner earlier this week and that has apparently happened.

Nobody offered much information as to what advise Warner had to offer but he did appear to have a good time.

Notre Dame starting quarterback Ian Book took to Twitter to briefly describe the experience as well.

Here’s to hoping whenever we get football again that Ian Book leads a Notre Dame offense that becomes the 2020 version of “The Greatest Show on Turf”.

Ian Book’s Biggest Accomplishment to Date (His Words, Not Ours)

Book has now received his diploma, something he calls his “biggest accomplishment”.

Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book has reached a level most thought he’d never reach as he’s been the Fighting Irish quarterback for the better part of two full seasons and is returning for a third. Despite Book not being a massively hyped recruit I think it’s safe to say he’s more than held his own, even if that’s not good enough for some.

Book will return to quarterback Notre Dame in 2020 and his experience is a factor in why some have the Irish as a threat to return to the College Football Playoff.

When Book straps up this fall though, he’ll be doing so without having the same stresses as a Notre Dame student-athlete pursuing their degree. That’s because Book has now received his diploma, something he calls his “biggest accomplishment”.

Here’s to hoping this is just the first of many huge accomplishments for Book in 2020.

Notre Dame QB Commit Tyler Buchner Skyrockets in New Rankings

It was a strange day because of the star ranking being applied to Notre Dame quarterback commit in the 2021 class, Tyler Buchner.

It was a weird day in recruiting if you’re a Notre Dame fan.  No, not because any big-time player committed and then de-committed or because Notre Dame offered a sophomore tight end that looks ready for the big time.  It was instead because of the star-ranking being applied to Notre Dame quarterback commit in the 2021 class, Tyler Buchner.

Buchner, a senior to be at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California began the day as a four-star recruit.  Sometime in the late morning his composite rating on 247Sports jumped to five-stars.  Then a short time later it was back down to four.  One Foot Down did a good job breaking this down.

Listen, I don’t really care what his star total is today or what it is going to be in late December when he ultimately signs his National Letter of Intent.  He appears to be a star in the making and will enter Notre Dame with the most hype a quarterback has had since Gunner Kiel began his Fighting Irish career (and we all know how well that worked out).

Where Buchner did gain a ton of ground and didn’t give it back in a single day was in the overall player rankings on 247Sports.  Buchner had been the 103rd rated player in the 2021 recruiting class nationally by the outlet before being promoted to number 50 overall today.

Buchner now ranks as the third highest dual threat quarterback in the class according to 247Sports and the sixth overall quarterback.  He’s shown that he is clearly a great athlete but most of the questions surrounding him come from his level of competition as he plays in California’s lowest classification for high school football.

Regardless of who he plays and whether he ends up with a fifth star or not, the hype train has already pulled out of the station for Tyler Buchner and will likely only be picking up steam as it makes the year long journey to South Bend.