Smartypants Quarterbacks

By on September 21, 2010 in General CFB

The starting quarterbacks from Stanford and Northwestern, two schools ranked 5th and 12th, respectively, in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings, are currently ranked 2nd and 3rd nationally in pass efficiency, with Dan Persa checking in at 192.62 and Andrew Luck at 192.31.

Persa and Luck combined are completing 73 percent of their passes, while throwing 16 touchdown passes with zero interceptions.

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4 Responses to Smartypants Quarterbacks

  1. Anonymous September 21, 2010 at 6:33 am #

    Wonder why you left off Duke’s Sean Renfroe and Vanderbilt’s Larry Smith? Because those Smarty Pants looked like Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber against a better schedules.

    Rating, Player, Team, SOS
    192.6, Persa, NW, 95th
    192.3, Luck, Stanford, 86th
    125.6, Renfroe, Duke, 27th
    103.7, Smith, Vandy, 14th

    There’s a strong correlation between better passer ratings and weaker schedules. But congrats to Persa and Luck for padding their stats against crappy schedules!

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  2. starkweather September 21, 2010 at 7:54 am #

    And Luck has his easiest game yet on deck!

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  3. HP September 21, 2010 at 10:50 am #

    Yeah. Luck sucks. There’s no way he’d be putting up good numbers if it weren’t for the level of comp.

    As for your correlation between SOS and passer rating, maybe you are right. That explains why McElroy leads the nation.

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  4. Anonymous September 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm #

    Once again you’ve created a straw man rather than address my point. Passer rating is better correlated with SOS than academics.

    Mallet would be a better example of weak SOS from the SEC, but neither he nor McElroy play for “Smarty Pants” schools. That’s why I didn’t include them.

    We’ll know if McElroy is a legit contender over the next three weeks. As for Luck, it might take a little longer.

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