First up are Miami’s Carson Beck and Julian Sayin of Ohio State on New Year’s Eve in Texas. Oregon’s Dante Moore, Alabama’s Ty Simpson and Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza take the stage the following day.
To say the College Football Playoff quarterfinals are flooded with elite quarterbacks would be an understatement. The top signal-callers will be on display. A Heisman Trophy winner (Mendoza) and one of the favorites (Sayin) to win the award next year. The three top draft-eligible signal-callers (Mendoza, Moore and Simpson) and a sleeper (Beck) are part of the festivities.
In what feels like a wide-open playoff, the quarterbacks’ performance could go a long way to deciding the sport’s top team, and shape April’s NFL draft as well. Mendoza is the consensus No. 1 guy at the moment according to most experts, but what happens if he struggles against Alabama? What if Moore has a monster playoff? Or Beck leads Miami to an upset of Ohio State?
Big postseasons can change the minds of decision-makers, or at least give them something to think about.
