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OrangeAfroMan

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Mt Rushmore - QB
« on: March 11, 2026, 07:02:54 AM »
There's a Mt Rushmore channel on my youtube popping up, covering all topics from country music singers to MLB pitchers, so I thought we could do positions for college football.

Starting with QB.

List 4 and only 4.  No explanations, just the names.  Your Mt. Rushmore of college football QBs from 1869-2025, however you choose to select them.

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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2026, 08:17:50 AM »
VY, Tim Tebow, Cam, and Joey B.
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2026, 02:28:46 PM »
I think Vince Young and Tim Tebow are locks. The other two are tougher, but the quarterback position has also become far more important in the last 40 years, so most of the best are pretty recent. Trying to overcome that bias, what about Frazier? Brees? Staubach? Plunkett? Lujack? Pat Sullivan? You guys are tired of me mentioning John Elway. Dan Marino? More recently, RGIII and Cam Newton are candidates. Matt Leinert? Manziel? Mayfield? Lawrence? Luck? Winston? Mariota? Tagovailoa? An embarrassment of riches in the last 20 years. 

I guess I didn't follow the rules, so...

Tim Tebow
Vince Young
Roger Staubach
Johnny Lujack
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2026, 02:36:17 PM »
This is obviously a variant of rankings.  My notion in life is to celebrate the greats and not get all wound up about which are top four or top 20 or whatever.
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2026, 02:37:51 PM »
Man, the cradle of Quarterbacks has been in an off cycle for a while, but Purdue's top 4 rate pretty well. I would say:
Drew Brees
Bob Griese
Len Dawson
Kyle Orton

Stanford non-national-title-contending teams ain't bad at the position, either:
Plunkett
Elway
Luck
John Brodie
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2026, 03:22:57 PM »
Pat Sullivan, Auburn
Tommie Frazier, Nebraska
Tim Tebow, Florida
Joe Burrow, LSU

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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2026, 03:48:36 PM »
Vince Young
Cam Newton
Joe Burrow
Tommie Frazier

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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2026, 04:18:13 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on March 11, 2026, 08:17:50 AM
VY, Tim Tebow, Cam, and Joey B.

Hard for me to argue with this list. 

(Even though I want Peyton on it in the worst way.)

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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2026, 04:42:39 PM »
Quote from: jgvol on March 11, 2026, 04:18:13 PM
(Even though I want Peyton on it in the worst way.)
Wouldn't be a bad choice.

The best quarterbacks are all in the last 25 years, but if we're talking the Mount Rushmore, well, Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson deserve representation, too. 
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2026, 04:43:27 PM »
Sammy Baugh
Roger Staubach
John Elway
Michael Vick
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2026, 05:37:42 PM »
cam, tebow, vy, & vick.
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2026, 05:43:19 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 11, 2026, 02:28:46 PM
I think Vince Young and Tim Tebow are locks. The other two are tougher, but the quarterback position has also become far more important in the last 40 years, so most of the best are pretty recent. Trying to overcome that bias, what about Frazier? Brees? Staubach? Plunkett? Lujack? Pat Sullivan? You guys are tired of me mentioning John Elway. Dan Marino? More recently, RGIII and Cam Newton are candidates. Matt Leinert? Manziel? Mayfield? Lawrence? Luck? Winston? Mariota? Tagovailoa? An embarrassment of riches in the last 20 years.

I guess I didn't follow the rules, so...

Tim Tebow
Vince Young
Roger Staubach
Johnny Lujack
Lotsa names listed up there, which is good.

I think to be on Mt. Rushmore, you need to have a trophy, and not the Hypesman.

So that absolutely disqualifies my homer submission, the Michael Vick before Michael Vick:  Michael Bishop, who has been sent to the CFB Hall of Fame.  He really started the era of the true dual threat QB, an accurate cannon and the wiggle/speed to kill on the run.

More non-champs: Pat Mahomes? Put that guy on a good team...  

How about Bernie Kosar?

I'm too distracted to think much harder for now.  Frickin job.

None of my submissions will make the rock, but just adding random thoughts.
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2026, 05:53:54 PM »
The "Mt Rushmore" is somewhat of a bastardized criteria. The four presidents that were selected weren't chosen as some sort of consensus Top Four. They were merely presidents that oversaw major shifts in the Nation. 

I mean does anyone really rank Theodore Roosevelt in their Top Four? 
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Re: Mt Rushmore - QB
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2026, 06:05:08 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on March 11, 2026, 05:53:54 PM
The "Mt Rushmore" is somewhat of a bastardized criteria. The four presidents that were selected weren't chosen as some sort of consensus Top Four. They were merely presidents that oversaw major shifts in the Nation.

I mean does anyone really rank Theodore Roosevelt in their Top Four?

He's a lock.


  • Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909): Known as the "conservation president," he used the 1906 Antiquities Act to create 18 national monuments, 5 national parks, and 51 bird sanctuaries
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