College Football QBs: Do you need a vet to win? The amazing QB experience returning in CFB in 2026
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What is the main focus of the 2026 college football quarterback landscape?
Welcome back to the Bill & Doug Show. Doug LaMaurice and Bill Landis. Landis, we are talking about how many veteran quarterbacks there are going to be in major college football this year. The Power 68, there's just a gazillion of them. And having now absorbed this research, are you surprised by how many old dudes we're going to have slinging the ball in 2026 in college football?
No, for two reasons. One, that just seems to be the thing that everybody wants. And two, it was like kind of young last year. So yeah, this is just sort of the natural progression of things.
We are.
How do veteran quarterbacks influence team success in college football?
I think there, you nailed it. There's it's the, so many teams like, you know, Indiana wins the national championship with the Heisman winning quarterback. Who's going to be the number one pick in the draft. And they're not saying, okay, they didn't, they didn't tell his brother to step up. Here you go. They told his brother to get lost. They didn't say that. I'm sure they said, Alberto, we love you, man, but he went to Georgia tech. It's not going to be a new quarterback. At Indiana, they got a guy who's been a three-year starter.
What trends are emerging with returning quarterbacks in major conferences?
So that's part of the new era. We just understand that now, right? That that's just how some subset of these winning teams are going to address quarterback more often than not. They go from one guy who's been a veteran to some other guy who's a veteran, and they make their decisions in the portal.
I don't know. Is it a subset? It's like the whole sport, I think, right? How the sport works, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We'll see, I guess.
Which teams are facing quarterback battles for the 2026 season?
Ohio State feels like it's an outlier here with the way that it still wants to go about its business. I think everybody more or less wants to fall into this pattern, I guess, until there's proof that you can win otherwise. And I'm sure there will, that day will come, but we haven't gotten it yet.
And we're not analyzing what's happening in the group of six quarterback situations. We're not analyzing what's happening in FCS college football situations. So when we're just looking at it like this, there sort of is an unlimited supply of veterans because the tier one teams can bring in a tier two veteran quarterback. The tier two teams can bring in a tier three veteran quarterback. And you can always dip down, right? That if you're in the middle of the power four, you can find a group of six guy or or an FCS guy who's been a starter.
How do transfer quarterbacks affect the dynamics of college football teams?
If you're Wisconsin, you go get the old Dominion quarterback, right? But then if you're Indiana, you go get the TCU quarterback. And so like that, there's, and if you're in the top tier, if you don't want to start a new quarterback, you probably never have to again, if you don't want to. And Indiana might be the example of the program that doesn't want to.
yeah i i don't know about like indiana certainly in that in that mode right now i with time and more demonstrated sustainability might they ever get off that i i think there was a time probably last year where what i said like of course or maybe going into last year was like they probably want to get to like a place where they can recruit and develop their own guys but i don't know i don't know that i believe that now because i don't know if i believe that about anybody um I'm like fascinated to see what this all does to the freshman quarterback market and how the positions even recruited moving forward, right? Because. it's not any cheaper to get those guys out of the five-star guys out of high school, but no one like patience is, is, is, is gone now.
Like the, the by and large, the patience to bring those guys in and actually develop them like from the program and from the players too. So it's pretty volatile time, I think in college quarterback play.
What role does experience play in evaluating quarterback performance?
And I thought that like three years ago, unsure of where it was going and it's even more volatile now.
Is it one of those where, for instance, and I'm just trying to think of an example. I hadn't thought of this previously, but we look at something like the recruitment of Jared Curtis in this freshman quarterback class, and he was committed to Georgia.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main focus of the 2026 college football quarterback landscape?
0:07–0:49
2
How do veteran quarterbacks influence team success in college football?
0:49–1:14
3
What trends are emerging with returning quarterbacks in major conferences?
1:14–1:45
4
Which teams are facing quarterback battles for the 2026 season?
1:45–2:32
5
How do transfer quarterbacks affect the dynamics of college football teams?
2:32–3:55
6
What role does experience play in evaluating quarterback performance?
3:55–4:40
7
What are the implications of high-stakes quarterback recruitment in 2026?
4:40–5:26
8
How will the landscape of college football quarterbacks evolve in the coming years?
5:26–1:16:40
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