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Last year, the Big 12 was a league featuring great running backs. This coming fall, it is a league filled with some of the country’s best returning quarterbacks.
In other words, the Big 12 is expected to field QBs who are experienced, productive, nationally recognized and expected to win.
This is a position both Utah and BYU will need to have operating at a high level come September. The Utes have New Mexico transfer Devon Dampier and BYU has yet to find out who will replace its own Big 12 veteran, the suspended Jake Retzlaff, who formally announced Friday that he is withdrawing from BYU.
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Neither Dampier nor whoever BYU starts has played Big 12 football.
In every sense, it will be a huge learning curve and a critical performance metric for both schools, which are expected to field outstanding defenses.
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark made it a point of emphasis at the Big 12 football media days in Frisco, Texas, this past week: The Big 12 has the best stable of QBs in the country.
Yormark said the Big 12 returns nine of 16 starting quarterbacks, and the rest of P4 combined has 11.
TCU’s Josh Hoover, Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson and ASU’s Sam Leavitt lead the pack.
“It’s awesome for our league, because that tells you there were nine kids that probably got tampered with and didn’t go anywhere,” quipped Kansas State coach Chris Klieman. He returns sophomore starter Avery Johnson.
“All those kids probably had an opportunity to do something else, but they believed in their school, they believed in their teammates, they believed in their coaching staff and they believed in this league. That tells me a lot that all those guys stayed.”
So, how good must Dampier and…
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Publish date : 2025-07-12 23:02:00
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