Preseason All-American Cade Klubnik's team is 1-3 and he's 94th in Total QBR. Preseason Heisman favorite Arch Manning is 71st. Sam Leavitt, Nico Iamaleava and Drew Allar, all playoff quarterbacks in 2024, are 61st, 76th and 88th, respectively. On the flip side, Notre Dame redshirt freshman C.J. Carr and Ole Miss' Trinidad Chambliss, a Division II transfer, are in the top five in Total QBR.

We knew this could be an odd college football season for quarterback play, with so many top teams fielding new starters and only a few known entities -- including Klubnik and Allar, who have not earned that label -- starting out near the top of the polls. But this has all been even stranger than we could have imagined.

With a month gone in the 2025 season, let's take stock. We've seen plenty of stellar

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