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Why Cody Kessler Is the Most Underrated QB in College Football

You can count on one hand (and have fingers left over) the number of positions in college football that are more prestigious than the quarterback job at USC. A scan of the names associated with this position since the turn of the century reads like a list of Steven Spielberg movies, where even the ones that didn't turn out as good as expected were still pretty good.

But the last name on the list doesn't jump off the page like those before him, like past Heisman winners Matt Leinart and Carson Palmer, or former first-round NFL draft picks like Leinart, Palmer and Mark Sanchez.