This is a ranking of the Top 50 Quarterbacks in CFB after week 13 of the season, the author attempts to caveat/quantify the hell out of his rankings, which is clearly an attempt to answer why he doesn't have Julian Sayin ranked on his list. Here are his words that attempt to cover for his blindspot.
These rankings are not a Heisman forecast, draft projection or season-long outlook. They're a real-time evaluation of performance, factoring in competition, pressure and production. With that, here are this week's power rankings of college football's top 50 quarterbacks.
It's a really sad attempt to cover up his blindspot which is clearly a refusal to rank Sayin because of the same bullshit we've heard a lot this season. He has too much talent around him to be evaluated against his peers. Complete idiocy, as if the rest of the QB's are throwing to mannequins on wheels or one-armed, one-legged blind people.
This was written last week, after Sayin had a 13-19 with 2 TD performance against Rutgers where he had his fewest attempts of the season because the running game was the focus of the offense.
The CFP QB "power rankings" has Blake Horvath in the Top 50 at number 43. No hate for Blake personally, he is Navy's QB and runs more than he throws. For the entire season has 9 TD's (8 at the time this article was penned) and 5 INT's and has completed 61.8% of his passes for just north of 1,000 yards.
Against 2 possible CFP teams this season (North Texas and ND) his passing stats were as follows, 11-24 for 102 yards 0 TD's and 2 INT's. Important to revisit David's grading criteria for this article, this list is "a real-time evaluation of performance, factoring in competition, pressure and production." Hmm, interesting perspective.
Julian Sayin's stat line without Carnell Tate, Jeremiah Smith, or Quincy Porter against Rutgers was 13-19 for 157 yards 2 TD's and 0 INT's. That brought him to a 27/4 with just south of 80% completions and 3,000 yards, yet somehow not worthy of David Cobb's Top 50 QB rankings.
This article has Jalon Daniels at number 37. As much as he has been a dynamic college player and helped restore some semblance of competitive football to the University of Kansas, here were Daniel's stats against Utah this past week. 10-27 for 187 yards 1 TD and 3 INT's (all in the red zone and 1 was a pick-6 when his team was down 3 points).
No hate for Fernando Mendoza either, he is having a fantastic season for IU. Mendoza checks in at Number 5 on the "power rankings". He has comparable stats to Sayin for the season and is throwing to future NFL receivers, yet somehow his stats matter when Sayin's don't. David compliments Mendoza's 4 TD performance against 4-8 Wisconsin in his summary of why Mendoza is near the top of the list. He mentions how Mendoza is the first QB to reach 30 TD passes on the season, a feat that Julian Sayin just matched after dismantling scUM's defense.
Here are Mendoza's stats against those fiesty Badgers. 22-24 for 299, 4 TD's and 0 INT's. Here are Sayin's stats against the same defense. 36-42 for 393, 4 TD's and 0 INT's.
The Sayin-hate out there is really sad to see, and it's really pitiful that people are given a platform to demonstrate it so blatantly. David Cobb, look in the mirror, and maybe consider another profession.
