Burrow's Numbers Vs Past Greats

quote:

---

with three games to go

---

against teams he should be able to pass on at will.

Those completion percentage numbers are shocking. The rules and modern offenses obviously favor the QBs, but damn....

A minimum of 5 games left and a possible 6 lol.

One of my posts from September:

Objectively, is college football a hell of a lot more entertaining now?Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:09 pm

quote:

---

Or is it just different?

I grew up as a young kid in the 90s and idolized everything about the sport. From logos and colors to rivalries and stats.

What I thought was good back then really isn't when compared to today's standards. I think it all changed around 2008. Last years three QB competition was gawdy.

I was thinking about Joey Harrington because of a stupid post on the rant. He finished 3rd in the Heisman rankings with some fairly pedestrian statistics.
Eric Crouch won that year. Yeah he could run, but 7tds and 10 int?!

Then I started looking around...
Even Danny Weurffel who I considered a god back then had a terrible completion percentage.

207/360 57.5%
3,625 yds
39 tds 13 int

Those numbers are okay. That 3:1 td:int ratio was considered good back then. Now it's more like 8:1 for elite qbs!

Joe Burrow's stats are light years better than what Danny Weurffel's were. I never thought I'd be able to say that about an LSU qb. But hell, I think Jamarcus was too. '

Anyway, carry on.

---

Troy Smith won the Heisman with a record 91.6% first place votes. That's a record landslide vote. Joe has already destroyed his numbers from that season.


'06 Smith - 203-311, 2,542 yards, 30 TDs, 6 Int, 65.3%, 204 yards rushing, 1 TD


'19 Burrow - 236-299, 3,198 yards, 33 TDs, 4 Int, 78.9%, 189 yards rushing, 3 TDs

quote:

---

78.9% completion percentage

---

this is absolute madness right here.

Im not sure most realize how stupid this stat is.

Sick.

Let me extrapolate for you.

Assuming his numbers hold and there's no reason for us to think that they won't, and he makes it to the national championship game. Here are his numbers on the season

'19 Burrow - 4,975 yards, 51 TDs, 6 Int, 78.9%, 367/465, 10.7 YPA

... and he isn't even going to face another defense like Auburn which really hurt his numbers

quote:

---

'06 Brennan - 5,549 yards, 58 TDs, 12 Int, 72%, 406/559, 9.9 YPA

'08 Bradford - 4,720 yards, 50 TDs, 8 Int, 67.9%, 328/483, 9.8 YPA

'97 Couch - 4,275 yards, 36 TDs, 15 Int, 72.3%, 400/553, 7.7 YPA

'97 Manning - 3,819 yards, 36 TDs, 11 Int, 60.2%, 287/477, 8.0 YPA

'96 Wuerffel - 3,625 yards, 39 TDs, 13 Int, 57.5%, 207/360, 10.1 YPA

'97 Leaf - 3,968 yards, 34 TDs, 11 Int, 55.4%, 227/410, 9.7 YPA

---

ETA: shite. yall beat me to it.

ETA: Brennan and Burrow actually have a matching opponent. Obviously, there are a ton of variables here and InB4 'transitive property' but here are the numbers.

'06 Brennan vs Alabama - 350 yards, 2 TDs, 1 Int, 68.2%, 30/44, 8.0 YPA
'19 Burrow vs. Alabama - 393 yards, 3 TDs, 0 Int, 79.5%, 31/39, 10.1 YPA

And suffice it to say that a Mike Shula coached, 6-7, 2006 Alabama team is not a Nick Saban coached, 2019 Alabama team.

If LSU makes the CFP National Championship game Burrow will have 5,000 yards and 50 TDs.