The Oklahoma Sooners have had the greatest run of quarterback play in college football over the last 25 years. No other team comes close. With four Heisman trophies, several more finalists for the award, passing records, historic offenses, a national title, and a number of BCS title game and College Football Playoff appearances, the Sooners have been the standard for quarterback play in the greatest sport on planet Earth.
OU is simply put, QBU.
If all of the accolades weren't enough to settle it, ESPN's Bill Connelly released his list of the top 90 quarterbacks (ESPN+) in college football since 2000, and seven Oklahoma Sooners made the list. That number doesn't include Josh Heupel, who didn't make the list, but was a Heisman finalist in 2000 and helped usher in the Air Raid offense into modern college football vernacular. It also doesn't include Caleb Williams, who spent just one season with the Sooners before transferring to follow Lincoln Riley to the USC Trojans.
How incredible has Oklahoma's run at quarterback been?
- Oklahoma is the only team with two quarterbacks in the top 10, three in the top 15, and five in the top 30. All seven players mentioned were ranked in the top 45 of Bill Connelly's rankings.
- Clemson and Texas are the only other programs with two quarterbacks in the top 15.
- Alabama, USC, and Oregon had three players in the top 30. But each of those teams includes a transfer that spent significant time at Oklahoma as well.
Here's a look at the Oklahoma Sooners to land in Bill Connelly's ranking of the top 90 college football quarterbacks since 2000.
44. Landry Jones
Landry Jones finished his Oklahoma career as the all-time leading passer. He won a Big 12 title in 2010 and a share of the Big 12 championship in 2012. He threw for over 4,000 yards three times and is fourth all-time in career passing yards.
Here's a complete list of QBs who spent their entire careers playing for power-conference teams and threw for more yards than Jones:
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It was hard to appreciate Jones' steady excellence in real time, but by the time he had graduated he had put together a four-year statistical résumé that, even in the near-decade that has followed, no one has surpassed. - Connelly, ESPN
Notable quarterbacks ahead of Landry Jones: Ken Dorsey, Stetson Bennett, and Mac Jones.
37. Jason White
Though it was as low start to his career, joining the Sooners in 1999, Jason White closed his career with two fantastic seasons, leading the Sooners to back-to-back BCS Championship game ...
