Shirley you aren't surprised at the snubbing of Hogan?
ESPN has been writing for months about what a let-down he was in 2013 - and a good fraction of Stanford fans seem to think the same.
Continuing with his high efficiency/low throwing reps mode isn't going to change any minds.
At any rate, the ESPN guys are looking for stories more than an actual ranking. Wilson is back from injury, Cal finally beat an FBS team, Solomon just won a QB competition ...
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There isn't all that much to learn about Pac-12 QBs from the first week, but here are a few items I found a little interesting.
How long they played (in order of Pass Efficiency Rating)
Mariotta - played one half. 14-20, 13.4 yds/att (vs South Dakota)
Hogan - played one half plus one series. 12-16, 12.8 yds/att (vs UC Davis)
Wilson - played one half. 13-18, 14.7 yds/att  (vs Idaho St)
Kessler - played 3 quarters. 25-37, 10.6 yds/att  (vs Fresno)
Halliday - played whole game. 40-56, 9.5 yds/att  (vs Rutgers)
Solomon - played whole game minus one drive. 25-44, 9.7 yds/att  (vs UNLV)
Goff* - played whole game. 21-34, 8.3 yds/att  (vs Northwestern)
Kelly - played one half. 18-27, 8.8 yds/att  (vs Weber St)
Liufau - played whole game. 24-39, 6.2 yds/att  (vs Colo St)
Mannion - played whole game. 26-45, 7.3 yds/att (vs Portland St)
Hundley - played whole game. 20-33, 7.3 yds/att  (vs UVa)
Lindquist - played whole game. 10-26. 6.2 yds/att  (vs Hawaii)
*Rubenzer played quite a few snaps as a change-of-pace QB, but Goff kept playing the main QB role til the end.
Things I noted:
Lots of guys played well vs teams they had better play well against.
Mannion not playing very well surprised me - that was the kind of team he built up brobdingnagian stats against last year.
Hundley being listed as honorable mention in the ESPN article had nothing to do with this particular game.
Lindquist was the only one who was really bad - UW would be in trouble if they didn't have another guy coming off probation next week.
Nobody played a good enough defense to be considered much of a test - even those in close games.
ESPN has been writing for months about what a let-down he was in 2013 - and a good fraction of Stanford fans seem to think the same.
Continuing with his high efficiency/low throwing reps mode isn't going to change any minds.
At any rate, the ESPN guys are looking for stories more than an actual ranking. Wilson is back from injury, Cal finally beat an FBS team, Solomon just won a QB competition ...
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There isn't all that much to learn about Pac-12 QBs from the first week, but here are a few items I found a little interesting.
How long they played (in order of Pass Efficiency Rating)
Mariotta - played one half. 14-20, 13.4 yds/att (vs South Dakota)
Hogan - played one half plus one series. 12-16, 12.8 yds/att (vs UC Davis)
Wilson - played one half. 13-18, 14.7 yds/att  (vs Idaho St)
Kessler - played 3 quarters. 25-37, 10.6 yds/att  (vs Fresno)
Halliday - played whole game. 40-56, 9.5 yds/att  (vs Rutgers)
Solomon - played whole game minus one drive. 25-44, 9.7 yds/att  (vs UNLV)
Goff* - played whole game. 21-34, 8.3 yds/att  (vs Northwestern)
Kelly - played one half. 18-27, 8.8 yds/att  (vs Weber St)
Liufau - played whole game. 24-39, 6.2 yds/att  (vs Colo St)
Mannion - played whole game. 26-45, 7.3 yds/att (vs Portland St)
Hundley - played whole game. 20-33, 7.3 yds/att  (vs UVa)
Lindquist - played whole game. 10-26. 6.2 yds/att  (vs Hawaii)
*Rubenzer played quite a few snaps as a change-of-pace QB, but Goff kept playing the main QB role til the end.
Things I noted:
Lots of guys played well vs teams they had better play well against.
Mannion not playing very well surprised me - that was the kind of team he built up brobdingnagian stats against last year.
Hundley being listed as honorable mention in the ESPN article had nothing to do with this particular game.
Lindquist was the only one who was really bad - UW would be in trouble if they didn't have another guy coming off probation next week.
Nobody played a good enough defense to be considered much of a test - even those in close games.