Tavion Faulk or Matthew O'Dowd

I'll preface this by saying I have a hard time with the idea that Nussmaier would refuse to play the bowl game unless he gets his redshirt waiver. That makes no sense to me. If you get an opportunity to start the bowl game and you show out, you go into the spring as the starting quarterback and Brennan then has to beat YOU out, and he's rusty as hell.

And if you're the starter as a 2nd year sophomore, what the hell do you need a 5th year for?

To me, the only purpose for insisting on that redshirt year is if you're thinking you're going into the portal and you want the maximum eligibility to make yourself marketable. And that tells me we ought to plan on replacing him over the summer with somebody.

Or maybe he gets a waiver and starts the bowl game and none of this matters.

Anyway, I found some HUDL film on the two walkon QB's who will get most or all of the snaps if Nuss doesn't play. It isn't as terrible as I expected, but honestly I'm surprised to read more about Faulk as an option than O'Dowd.

Here's Faulk. He looks like - I'm not sure what he looks like. A poor man's Tony Rice? Maybe a Teddy Bridgewater at Miami? He can run some, though he doesn't have blazing speed. The arm's pretty accurate but honestly it isn't strong at all. They did move the ball a ton at Carencro when he was there, though, so maybe he's a good game manager.

Faulk senior film

I'm not sure what the deal is on O'Dowd. His senior year film is apparently only six quarters, but his junior film is 10 minutes and it's really pretty good. He's got a quick release and he puts a ton of zip on the ball.

Senior film

Junior film