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Ranking college football's top 80 quarterbacks of the 2000s

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With each passing season, ranking the college quarterbacks of the 2000s gets a little trickier.

It was a big deal when Missouri's Brad Smith averaged 2,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards per season from 2002 to '05. But then Michigan's Denard Robinson averaged 2,000 and 1,400 from 2010 to '12. And then Louisville's Lamar Jackson averaged 3,600 and 1,500 from 2016 to '17. And then Clemson's Deshaun Watson and Oklahoma's Kyler Murray went for 4,000 and 1,000 in 15 and 14 games, respectively. And in 2023, LSU's Jayden Daniels damn near matched that in 12 games.