When college football saw the inclusion of the spread offense by countless programs around the start of this century — others earlier — it meant many NCAA passing records were about to be rewritten. They have, thanks to the likes of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks Ty Detmer of BYU, Andre Ware of Houston of the 1980s and 1990s, and most recently the likes of LSU’s Joe Burrow, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield and others. Among all of those great players, and regardless of division, no quarterback in the history of...
