Top 25 College Quarterbacks Of 2020

I stumbled across a ranking by 247Sports' Brad Crawford of the Top 25 College Quarterbacks for the 2020 College Football Season. It stood out for a couple reasons. One reason was the top quarterbacks. The other reason for a quarterback that isn't included among the 25.

Top 25 College Quarterbacks of 2020

1.   Justin Fields, Ohio State
2.   Trevor Lawrence, Clemson
3.   Sam Ehlinger, Texas
4.   Sam Howell, North Carolina
5.   Jayden Daniels, Arizona State
6.   Kedon Slovis, USC
7.   Tanner Morgan, Minnesota
8.   Ian Book, Notre Dame
9.   Brock Purdy, Iowa State
10. Shane Buechele
11. D'eriq King, Miami
12. Spencer Rattler, Oklahoma
13. Kyle Trask, Florida
14. KJ Costello, Mississippi State
15. Spencer Sanders, Oklahoma State
16. Brady White, Memphis
17. Kellen Mond, Texas A&M
18. Jamie Newman, Georgia
19. Davis Mills, Stanford
20. Mac Jones, Alabama
21. Charlie Brewer, Baylor
22. Michael Penix Jr., Indiana
23. Dillon Gabriel, UCF
24. Adrian Martinez, Nebraska
25. Myles Brennan, LSU

Trevor Lawrence has played two seasons of college football. He won a title in his first season. He played for the title in his second season. Most supposed experts have been saying for the past two years that he'd be the #1 pick in any NFL Draft that he graces with his presence. Despite not being able to take the Georgia quarterback role from Jake Fromm, Justin Fields is a fine football player. He was terrific in his first season as the starter for Ohio State. Fields with the usual Buckeye talent should be even more terrific this season. I still don't see how any quarterback can top Lawrence. He's played too well and done too much.

Jayden Daniels and Kedon Slovis were starting quarterbacks as true freshmen last season. Neither played like a true freshman. Daniels was so impressive that I was immediately dreaming about his departure from the Pac-12. As a Cal fan and alum, I don't ever need to see a repeat of what he did to the Golden Bears last season. Slovis was good but Daniels was ridiculous.

KJ Costello! It's a struggle to imagine the game manager in David Shaw's offense becoming the throwing madman in Mike Leach's offense.

The quarterback that isn't included that I thought could be is Cal's Chase Garbers. He was inconsistent as a redshirt freshman starter in 2018. In 2019, it looked like he was starting to click in the fourth game against Mississippi. Just when it looked like he and Cal were starting to roll, Garbers broke his collar bone against Arizona State. The injury kept him out of five games. When he finally returned he led Cal to a win over Stanford in the Big Game (finally!). Cal was 7-0 in 2019 in games in which Garbers played at least a half. He's led the Golden Bears to consecutive bowl games, winning one. There hasn't been this much optimism over football in Berkeley since the best of the Jeff Tedford years. A lot of that optimism is due to Chase Garbers. He should be on this list of the Top 25 College Quarterbacks. LSU's Joe Burrow is expected to be the first pick of Thursday's 2020 NFL Draft. He might not have been on last year's projected Top 25 Quarterbacks of 2019 season.