Ranking the 10 bleakest QB situations among Power Four conferences entering the 2025 college football season

Looking around the post-spring landscape, there are a lot of really good quarterbacks in college football. After a down year — from the NFL Draft perspective, at least — in 2024, the 2025 season is shaping up as solid for the most important position on the field. 

Players like LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier, Penn State’s Drew Allar and Clemson’s Cade Klubnik eschewing the draft for another year at their respective schools certainly helps the perception. As does the arrival of Texas’ Arch Manning, the most ballyhooed recruit in recent memory who finally gets his chance to start in the wake of Quinn Ewers’ departure. 

Even prominent schools embroiled in quarterback competitions like Alabama and Ohio State have a wealth of promising options. While there are fair conversations to be had about increased talent inequality in the modern era of college football, the transfer portal makes finding a serviceable quarterback easier. 

Unfortunately, not every program can tout its quarterback room. Yes, even in a year like 2025, there are a handful of schools with a lot to be desired under center. 

Here are the 10 bleakest quarterback situations in college football entering the 2025 season. 

Dishonorable mentions 

These programs have questionable quarterback situations but didn’t quite make the cut.

Houston: If Conner Weigman meets his potential, he could be a transfer portal steal for Houston. That’s a big if. Zeon Chriss is a great runner who can energize the offense with his legs, but quarterbacks do have to throw the ball sometimes. That’s where it can get tricky for Chriss. 

Tennessee: The Vols lost high-upside quarterback Nico Iamaleava and replaced him with a solid, if unspectacular, starting option transfer Joey Aguilar — formerly…

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Author : Will Backus

Publish date : 2025-05-10 12:09:00

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