As we approach the one-month mark of the 2025 college football season, the state of quarterback play among the contenders (and pretenders) across the country is becoming clearer.
LSU's Garrett Nussmeier, Penn State's Drew Allar and Texas' Arch Manning -- all for different reasons -- have followed hefty preseason hype with relatively slow starts this fall. Elsewhere, Josh Hoover (TCU), Haynes King (Georgia Tech) and Diego Pavia (Vanderbilt) are looking very much as expected, and some of the nation's biggest offseason question marks, including Oregon's Dante Moore and Texas A&M's Marcel Reed, have emerged as surprise stars.