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Updated FBS all-time passing leaders after 2022 campaign

Sam Hartman and Holton Ahlers climbed the all-time list after the 2022 campaign.

Following the 2022 college football season, our look back at the record books showed two new passers joined the top 25 in FBS history.

Eastern Carolina’s Holton Ahler threw for 3,708 yards to jump all the way to No. 11. He missed out on the top 10 by 146 yards. Likewise, Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman joined the top 20. He checked in at No. 19 with 12,967 yards knocking Ryan Lindley out of the top 25.

Hartman completed his fifth year at the collegiate level and will return for a sixth, but will suit for Notre Dame in 2023. In five seasons, Hartman has averaged 2,593 yards per season. That output in the upcoming season would move him up to No. 5 overall.

Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel is another quarterback to observe this upcoming season. Gabriel checks in at No. 69 with 11,205 yards. If he can reproduce his 2022 outcome, the southpaw could climb into the top 25 and land at No. 9.

The top 25 career passing yardage leaders are courtesy of Sports-Reference.

From the vault: BYU’s last visit to Autzen wasn’t a pleasant one

Lanning was asked about Oregon’s historic upset of No. 4 BYU in 1990. He said he was excited to learn about it. You should learn more about it as well.

Picture it.

Autzen Stadium, 1990.

The Oregon Ducks were coming off their first bowl win in 26 years with the Independence Bowl victory over Tulsa the year before. But this wasn’t Tulsa.

This was No. 4 BYU coming into Autzen Stadium and they boasted a Heisman hopeful in quarterback Ty Detmer. The Cougars had put on a campaign for the ages in order get their guy to New York in December.

But BYU had not expected the kind of atmosphere that was awaiting them of 45,000 delirious Duck faithful. The Cougars also didn’t expect a defensive line to play out of their minds. Oregon sacked Detmer five times, including defensive tackle Marcus Woods planting the Cougar signal caller into the turf of the east end zone of Autzen.

Oregon led 12-7 at the half and blew the game open in the third quarter with two Bill Musgrave touchdown passes to receiver Michael McClellan and tight end Jeff Thomason to make it 25-10. Musgrave finished the scoring early in the fourth with a three-yard touchdown run and the Ducks defense took it the rest of the way.

If that bowl win in 1989 didn’t give an indication of what Oregon’s football future could be, this upset victory the very next year certainly did. The 32-16 Ducks win put a damper on Detmer’s Heisman chances for a while (he wound up winning it anyway), but any hope BYU had of a possible national championship went by the wayside as they finished the season 10-3.

Oregon head coach Dan Lanning was four years old.

In his Monday night press conference leading up to the upcoming game with BYU on Saturday, Lanning was asked about this historical contest. As expected, he didn’t have a lot to say.

“I’m gonna look it up now,” he said. “I haven’t heard a lot about that game. But looking forward to going back and finding maybe some old film.”

All Lanning has to do is to go look on YouTube and obviously, there are no on-the-field factors he can take away since it was 32 years ago. But Lanning will see a raucous crowd that will not only take the opponent out of their game plan but also lifts his own team up to do things they thought that possibly they were incapable of doing.

Those factors will be present on Saturday. Oregon can only hope the end result is also there.

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Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer accepts high school coaching job in Arizona

Former Heisman Trophy winner and BYU offensive coordinator Ty Detmer is getting back into coaching at the high school level.

Former Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer is getting back into coaching. This time, it’s at the high school level.

Detmer has accepted the head-coaching position at American Leadership-Queen Creek High School in Arizona, per the AzCentral. He last coached in 2017, when he was BYU’s offensive coordinator and has since been working as a district athletic director. Detmer has previous experience coaching at the high school level with St. Andrew’s Episcopal in Texas in 2012.

Detmer won the Heisman Trophy at BYU in 1990, when he posted the most passing yards and total offense than any previous Heisman winner at the time. He succeeds Rich Edwards, who previously led American Leadership-Queen Creek to the first state football championship by a charter school in Arizona Interscholastic Association history and guided it to the Arizona 4A semifinals in 2020, one year after it went undefeated and captured the 3A title.

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“I was working closely with the (ALA) coaches and the executive group, a liaison between them,” Detmer said. “I’ve been around the program for a year. When I heard Rich was stepping down, our executive team approached me about moving into the post. I thought it would be a great opportunity to get to teach the boys more. This will be more hands-on for me with the kids. I missed that competition time.

“That age of kid, it’s always fun for me to see them come in as 14-year-old and leave as 18-year-old young men, help shape their character a little more at that level. My dad coached football for 50 years and I saw the impact he had on them.

Detmer will retain former BYU standout quarterback Max Hall as American Leadership-Queen Creek’s offensive coordinator.

Here’s why we should have known Johnny Manziel was gonna be an NFL bust

Johnny Manziel (aka Johnny Football) became one of the biggest flameouts ever. Let’s look back at a coupe of the past comments regarding his NFL potential.

Yes, it’s that time of year when NFL fans, analysts and experts get excited about NFL Draft prospects, especially “potential” franchise quarterbacks.

But, man, have a lot of people been wrong.

Johnny Football is one of the biggest flameouts ever. He was drafted late in the first round of the 2014 Draft so it wasn’t a huge gamble by the Browns.

Still, many people had high hopes. Others didn’t.

Let’s look back at a couple of the past comments regarding his NFL potential.

And obviously, his off-the-field behavior should have sent up huge red flags, but we’re talking just about his game-day plays and how that should also give NFL GMs and scouts cause to pause and think about a college QB’s NFL future.

The most telling observation came fronm college football analyst and former NFL quarterback Gary Danielson when he compared Manziel to another Heisman winner, Ty Detmer. (Granted, Detmer was drafted in the ninth round; Manziel in the first, but still)

Uh-oh.

That should have been a strong heads-up as to how Manziel’s QB style was going to play out in the NFL. And he and Detmer did do similarly great things but so did Adam Morrison and Jimmer Fredette during their college basketball careers — to make a dual-comparison — and everyone knows how their NBA stints turned out.

Anyhow, Mel Kiper, who was initially onboard the Manziel-hype train, jumped off early but Skip Bayless stayed strongly opinionated full-steam ahead.

Finally, this is a reminder to all fans, not just Browns fans (but seriously, be worried about Baker Mayfield’s regression last season), that sometimes Draft Night joy just doesn’t work out for your team down the road — particularly when it comes to quarterbacks.