Super Bowl Quarterbacks

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It was just mentioned, (by Ty Doyle of Bud and the Manchild) on the traditonal small college teams, (although the Wolfpack are now FBS) teams. It seemed to belie the notion that the top schools get all the top talent. (Of course they get all the top teenage talent: then we’ll see what they are like when they grow up.) I decided to look at the Super Bowl starting quarterbacks and where they went to school



SB1 (to heck with figuring out the roman numerals) Bart Starr (Alabama) and Len Dawson (Purdue)

SB2 Starr and Daryle Lamonica (Notre Dame)

SB3 Joe Namath (Alabama- the first three SBs were won by Crimson Tide QBs) and Earl Morrall (Michigan State)

SB4 Dawson and Joe Kapp (California)

SB5 Johnny Unitas (Louisville)and Craig Morton (California- the Golden Bears went down twice in a row)

SB6 Roger Staubach (Navy) and Bob Griese (Purdue)

SB7 Griese and Bill Kilmer (UCLA)

SB8 Griese and Fran Tarkington (Georgia)

SB9 Terry Bradshaw (Louisiana Tech) and Tarkington

SB10 Bradshaw and Staubach

SB11 Ken Stabler (Alabama) and Tarkington

SB12 Staubach and Morton

SB13 Bradshaw and Staubach

SB14 Bradshaw and Vince Ferragamo (California and Nebraska: You don’t want to be a Golden Bear in the SB- unless your name is Rodgers)

SB15 Jim Plunkett (Stanford) and Ron Jaworski (Youngstown State)

SB16 Joe Montana (Notre Dame) and Ken Anderson (Augustana of Illinois)

SB17 Joe Theisman (Notre Dame) and David Woodley (LSU)

SB18 Plunkett and Theisman

SB19 Montana and Dan Marino (Pittsburgh)

SB20 Jim McMahon (BYU) and Tony Eason (Illinois)

SB21 Phil Simms (Morehead State) and John Elway (Stanford)

SB22 Doug Williams (Grambling) and Elway

SB23 Montana and Boomer Esiason (Maryland)

SB24 Montana and Elway

SB25 Jeff Hostetler (Penn State and West Virginia) and Jim Kelly (Miami of Florida)

SB26 Mark Rypien (Washington State) and Kelly

SB27 Troy Aikman (Oklahoma, UCLA) and Kelly

SB28 Aikman and Kelly

SB29 Steve Young (BYU) and Stan Humphries (NE Louisiana, now Louisiana-Monroe)

SB30 Aikman and Neil O’Donnell (Maryland)

SB31 Brett Favre (Southern Mississippi) and Drew Bledsoe (Washington State)

SB32 Elway and Favre

SB33 Elway and Chris Chandler (Washington)

SB34 Kurt Warner (Northern Iowa) and Steve McNair (Alcorn State)

SB35 Trent Dilfer (Fresno State) and Kerry Collins (Penn State)

SB36 Tom Brady (Michigan) and Kurt Warner

SB37 Brad Johnson (Florida State) Rich Gannon (Delaware)

SB38 Brady and Jake Delhomme (SW Louisiana, now Louisiana-Lafayette)

SB39 Brady and Donovan McNabb (Syracuse)

SB40 Ben Roethlisberger (Miami of Ohio) and Matt Hasselbeck (Boston College)

SB41 Peyton Manning (Tennessee) and Rex Grossman (Florida)

SB42 Eli Manning (Mississippi) and Brady

SB43 Roethlisberger and Warner

SB44 Drew Brees (Purdue) and Peyton Manning

SB45 Aaron Rodgers (California) and Roethlisberger

SB46 Eli Manning and Brady

SB47 Colin Kaepernick (Nevada-Reno) and Joe Flacco (Delaware)



The score by school:

Notre Dame: Lamonica, Montana, Theisman 7SB, 5-2

Stanford: Plunkett. Elway 7SB, 4-3

Purdue: Dawson, Griese, Brees 6SB, 4-2

Michigan: Brady ` 5SB, 3-2

California: Kapp, Morton, Ferragamo, Rodgers 5SB, 1-5

Alabama: Starr, Namath, Stabler 4SB, 4-0

Louisiana Tech: Bradshaw 4SB, 4-0

Navy: Staubach 4SB, 2-2

Miami (Fla): Kelly 4SB, 0-4

Oklahoma: Aikman 3SB, 3-0

UCLA: Aikman 3SB, 3-0

Miami (O): Roethlisberger 3SB, 2-1

Northern Iowa: Warner 3SB, 1-2

Georgia: Tarkington 3SB, 0-3

BYU: McMahon, Young 2SB, 2-0

Mississippi: Manning 2SB, 2-0

Delaware: Gannon, Flacco 2SB, 0-1

Penn State: Hochstetler, Collins 2SB, 1-1

Southern Mississippi: Favre 2SB, 1-1

Washington State: Rypien, Bledsoe 2SB, 1-1

Tennessee: Manning 2SB, 1-1

Maryland: Esiason, O’Donnell 2SB, 0-2

Florida State: Johnson 1SB, 1-0

Fresno State: Dilfer 1SB, 1-0

Grambling: Williams 1SB, 1-0

Louisville: Unitas 1SB, 1-0

Morehead State: Simms 1SB, 1-0

West Virginia: Hochstetler 1SB, 1-0

Alcorn State: McNair 1SB, 0-1

Augustana (Ill): Anderson 1SB, 0-1

Boston College: Hasselbeck 1SB, 0-1

Florida: Grossman 1SB, 0-1

Illinois: Eason 1SB, 0-1

Louisiana-Lafayette: Delhomme 1SB, 0-1

Louisiana-Monroe: Humphries 1SB, 0-1

LSU: Woodley 1SB, 0-1

Michigan State: Morrall 1SB, 0-1

Nebraska: Ferragamo 1SB, 0-1

Nevada-Reno: Kaepernick 1SB, 0-0

Pittsburgh: Marino 1SB, 0-1

Syracuse: McNabb 1SB, 0-1

UCLA: Kilmer 1SB, 0-1

Washington: Chandler 1SB, 0-1

Youngstown State: Jaworski 1SB, 0-1



This isn’t the first time two quarterbacks from smaller schools faced on in the Super Bowl- Kurt Warner and Steve McNair in SB34 were from Northern Iowa and Alcorn State, respectively. The Louisiana schools have produced Bradshaw, Humphries and Delhomme. Grambling, Morehead State and Youngstown State are also represented. The one Super Bowl quarterback from below FCS level was Kenny Anderson from Augustana, which is Division III. Overall the quarterbacks from what I’ll call the smaller schools are 7-7 in Super Bowls, (thanks largely to Bradshaw) and represent, (counting Hostetler and Aikman once and adding in Kaepernick and Flacco), 17% of all Super Bowl quarterbacks. But the Big schools still tend to dominate, with Notre Dame and Stanford having produced quarterbacks that started as many Super Bowls as all the smalls prior to this year and having a better record, (9-5).



So, yeah, I guess you could say a Super Bowl with starting quarterbacks from Delaware and Nevada Reno is a rare occurrence.