Top 10 college football QBs in 2025: Cade Klubnik, Arch Manning battle for No. 1
The college football calendar might be in its down period, but we keep moving along in previewing the 2025 college football season. A couple of weeks ago, I shared my post-spring top 25 rankings. Now, I want to share my top 10 quarterbacks for the upcoming season.
When I did this exercise last year, I actually only ranked the five best quarterbacks in the sport entering the season. This isn't a list of guys who I necessarily think will have the 10 best statistical seasons in 2025. Rather, these are the 10 quarterbacks who I think will have the best seasons between individual performance and leading their teams to a successful season.
So, here are the 10 quarterbacks who I think will have the best seasons in 2025.
I actually had Beck at No. 1 when I did this list last offseason, and I feel like this ranking is giving him the benefit of the doubt. There are a lot of things that crept up during the 2024 season and now in the offseason that give me a little bit of pause.
In terms of on-field matters, Beck turned the ball over a little too much. Yes, Georgia wasn’t that talented on the outside, and it had more drops than any wide receiver corps in the country. That was clearly a problem and wasn’t necessarily his fault. But he still turned the ball over too much and you can’t expect your team to perform at its highest capabilities when you do that.
Off the field, Beck is returning from the UCL injury he suffered in the SEC Championship Game. We really haven’t seen him throw in the spring and he hasn’t been able to form any rapport with his new team and receivers. He was only cleared to throw recently. I think that injury is a bigger deal than people realize.
Still, I think Beck is a really good player. There’s a reason why