Quarterback situation grades for all teams in FBS

SavvyGameLine has been gearing up for the 2023 football season and I have grades and rankings for the quarterback situations of every team in FBS.

Keep in mind that these are not ratings for starting quarterbacks but rather an over all assessment of the quarterback “rooms” for every program to determine this question:

From the standpoint of just the quarterback room and not considering other factors such as returning starters, coaches, schedule, etc., how probable is it that this team will achieve results equal to last season.

Teams with grades B-plus or higher are nearly “locks” to be as effective from the quarterback position while teams with grades C-minus and below are likely to drop.

Although USC produced last year’s Heisman Trophy winner in Caleb Williams, the quarterbacks behind him are uncertain and untested.  Ohio State no longer has dynamic quarterback C. J. Stroud and enters this season with Oregon State transfer Tristen Gebbia as its most-experienced player behind center. Yet, Gebbia was only third string at the Beavers’ OSU and he’s only fourth string at the Buckeyes’ OSU.  The starting quarterback listed for Ohio State is  Kyle McCord who has little experience and can’t run. The likelihood that Ohio State’s quarterback room will be as talented or deep as last year earns a D+ grade.

Oregon State wins this year’s quarterback situation assessment because it has a former number one national recruit as its projected starter and a ten-game winner and former starter backing him up.  If that wasn’t enough, the Beavers have one of the most exciting and effective freshmen waiting in the wings.  Oregon State’s success at the quarterback position is about as close as you can come to a guarantee as you can get.

Here are the Savvy rankings and grades for every team:

	Savvy Index			Quarterback situations
				2023
2023 qb situation national ranking		2023 qb situation grade		2023 projected starting qb	projected backup qb
1	Oregon St.	A+		D. J. Uiagalelei	Ben Gulbranson
2	LSU	A+		Jayden Daniels	many
3	Washington	A+		Michael Penix Jr.	Dylan Morris
4	Mississippi St.	A+		Will Rogers	Mike Wright (Vanderbilt)
5	Maryland	A+		Taulia Tagovailoa	Billy Edwards Jr.
6	Texas Tech	A		Tyler Shough	Behren Morton
7	Mississippi	A		Jaxson Dart	Spencer Sanders (Okla St.)
8	Oregon	A		Bo Nix	Austin Novosad
9	Oklahoma	A		Dillon Gabriel	Jackson Arnold fr
10	Ohio	A		Kurtis Rourke	C.J. Harris
11	Toledo	A		Dequan Finn	Tucker Gleason
12	Missouri	A		Brady Cook	Jake Garcia (Miami Fl)
13	Michigan	A		J. J. McCarthy	Jack Tuttle
14	Louisiana	A		Ben Wooldridge	Chandler Fields
15	Kansas	A		Jalon Daniels
16	Navy	A-		Tai Lavatai	Xavier Arline
17	Kansas St.	A-		Will Howard	Jake Rubley
18	Texas	A-		Quinn Ewers
19	UTSA	A-		Frank Harris	Eddie Lee Marburger
20	Miami Oh	A-		Brett Gabbert	Aveon Smith
21	Arizona St.	A-		Trenton Bourget or Drew Pine
22	UCF	A-		John Rhys Plumlee	Timmy McClain (xUSF)
23	USF	A-		Gerry Bohanan	Katravis Marsh
24	Texas A&M	A-		Conner Weigman	Max Johnson (LSU)
25	Iowa St.	A-		Hunter Dekkers	Rocco Becht
26	Clemson	B+		Cade Klubnik
27	Liberty	B+		Johnathon Bennet	Kaidon Salter
28	Florida St.	B+		Jordan Travis
29	Utah	B+		Cameron Rising	Brandon Rose
30	San Jose St.	B+		Chevan Cordeiro	Jay Butterfield (Oregon)
31	Tulane	B+		Michael Pratt	Kai Horton
32	Iowa	B+		Cade McNamara
33	New Mexico St.	B+		Eli Stowers	Diego Pavia
34	Virginia Tech	B+		Grant Wells	Kyron Drones
35	S Carolina	B+		Spencer Rattler	Luke Doty
36	UCLA	B		Dante More	Ethan Garbers
37	Temple	B		E. J. Warner	Quincy Patterson (Virginia Tech)
38	Kentucky	B		Devin Leary
39	Northwestern	B		Brendan Sullivan	Ryan Hilinski
40	Hawai’i	B		Brayden Schager	Joey Yellen
41	Massachusetts	B		Taisun Phommachanh	Carlos Davis (W Carolina)
42	Auburn	B		Payton Thorn
43	Syracuse	B		Garrett Shrader	Carlos Del Rio Wilson
44	Georgia	B		Carson Beck	Brock Vandergriff
45	Alabama	B		Jalen Milroe?
46	Arizona	B-		Jayden de Laura
47	S Miss	B-		Zach Wilcke	Jake Lange
48	Buffalo	B-		Cole Snyder
49	Miami Fl	B-		Tyler Van Dyke	Jacurri Brown
50	Troy	B-		Gunnar Watson	Quayde Watson
51	USC	B-		Caleb Williams	Miller Moss ?
52	UTEP	B-		Gavin Hardison	Calvin Brownholz
53	Boise St.	B-		Taylen Green
54	UNLV	B-		Doug Brumfield	Cameron Friel
55	W Kentucky	B-		Austin Reed	Caden Velkamp
56	Cincinnati	C+		Emory Jones
57	W Michigan	C+		Hayden Wolff	Trenton Bourget
58	Duke	C+		Riley Leonard
59	Baylor	C+		Blake Sharpen	Sawyer Robertson (Miss St.)
60	N Carolina	C+		Drake Maye	Conner Harrell
61	S Alabama	C+		Carter Bradley	Tanner McGee
62	Oklahoma St.	C+		Alex Bowman	Garrett Rangle; Gunnar GUndy
63	Akron	C+		D. J. Irons
64	Florida	C+		Graham Mertz
65	Florida Intl.	C+		Grayson James
66	Colorado	C		Shedeur Sanders
67	UAB	C		Jacob Zeno	Trace Campbell (Miss)
68	W Virginia	C		Garrett Greene	Nicco Marchiol
69	San Diego St.	C		Jaylen Mayden	Kyle Crum
70	Coastal Car	C		Grayson McCall
71	Tulsa	C		Braylon Braxton	Ronan Fuller
72	Notre Dame	C		Sam Hartman	Steve Angeli
73	Georgia St.	C		Darren Grainger	Mikele Colasurdo
74	Fresno St.	C		Mikey Keene
75	Georgia So.	C		Davis Brin	Beau Allen (Kentrucky)
76	Wyoming	C		Andrew Peasley	Jayden Clemons (Utah)
77	Utah St.	C		Cooper Legas	Levi Williams
78	Vanderbilt	C		A. J. Swan	Ken Seals
79	Air Force	C		Jensen Jones
80	California	C-		Sam Jackson	Ben Finley (NC State)
81	Jacksonville St.	C-		Te’Sean Smoot
82	Wisconsin	C-		Tanner Mordecai	Braedyn Locke (Miss St)
83	Ball St.	C-		Layne Hatcher
84	Marshall	C-		Cam Fancher	transfer-in?
85	Boston Col	C-		Thomas Castellanos
86	N Carolina St.	C-		Brennan Armstrong	M. J. Morris
87	Rutgers	C-		Gavin Wimsatt	Evan Simon
88	Rice	C-		J. T. Daniels	A. J. Padgett
89	Colorado St.	C-		Clay Millen
90	Arkansas St.	C-		A. J. Mayer
91	Memphis	D+		Seth Henigan	none listed
92	Charlotte	D+		Jalon Jones
93	Washington St.	D+		Cameron Ward	John Mateer
94	Purdue	D+		Hudson Card	Brady Allen
95	Georgia Tech	D+		Haynes King	Zach Pyron
96	Pittsburgh	D+		Phil Jurkovec	Chris Velleaux
97	Arkansas	D+		K. J. Jefferson
98	Louisville	D+		Jack Plummer	Brock Dormann
99	Texas St.	D+		Malik Hornsby	C. J. Rogers (Baylor)
100	BYU	D+		Kedon Slovis
101	N Illinois	D+		Rocky Lombardi	Ethan Hampton
102	Penn St.	D+		Drew Allar	Beau Pribula
103	Ohio St.	D+		Kyle McCord
104	Minnesota	D+		Athan Kaliakmanis	Cole Kramer
105	Connecticut	D+		Ta’Quan Roberson
106	Wake Forest	D-		Mitch Griffis	Michael Kern
107	LA Tech	D-		Hank Bachmeier	Jack Turner
108	SMU	D-		Preston Stone	Alex Padilla (Iowa)
109	Nevada	D-		Brendon Lewis	A. J. Bianco
110	New Mexico	D-		Dylan Hopkins	Justin Holaday (Fresno CC)
111	Army	D-		Bryson Dailey?
112	App State	D-		Brady McBride
113	Tennessee	D-		Joe Milton	Gaston Moore
114	E Michigan	D-		Austin Smith
115	Nebraska	D-		Geoff Sims	Chubba Purdy (Fla St.)
116	Illinois	D-		Luke Altmyer
117	Sam Houston	D-		Keegan Shoemaker	Grant Gunnell (Ariz, Memph, N Texas)
118	Bowling Green	D-		Connor Bazelak
119	C Michigan	D-		Bert Emanuel Jr.
120	Stanford	D-		Ari Patu	Ashton Daniels
121	Old Dominion	D-
122	Houston	D-		Donovan Smith
123	TCU	D-		Chandler Morris	Josh Hoover
124	Middle Tenn	D-		Nicholas Vattiato	D J Riles
125	Florida Atl.	D-		Daniel Richardson
126	Virginia	D-		Jay Woolfolk	Tony Muskett (Monmouth)
127	Indiana	D-		Tayven Jackson	Dexter Williams III
128	E Carolina	D-		Mason Garcia
129	James Madison	D-		Jordan McCloud	Brett Griffis (Wake Forest)
130	LA Monroe	D-		Jiya Wright	Garrett Hable
131	Michigan St.	D-		Noah Kim	Katin Houser
132	N Texas	D-		Chandler Rogers	Jace Ruder (N Carolina)
133	Kent St.	D-		Devin Kargman	Chandler Galban (Fullerton JC)