PACK THE HOUSE: The 25 biggest college football stadiums Austin Davis Later that year, he won the 2012 Burlsworth Trophy. He led the Big Ten with 270 completions (a school record), 446 attempts, 3,271 yards and 24 touchdowns. He recorded a single-season school record for most passing yards (3,271), breaking Daryll Clark's 3,003 yards set in 2009. McGloin would trade starts with Bolden in 2011, but gained the trust of new head coach Bill O'Brien to become the starting quarterback. A little over a week later, McGloin was named the starter, and finished the season with 1,548 yards, 14 touchdowns and nine interceptions. Two sacks and a fumble forced McGloin into the game, and he rallied from a 21-point deficit to win Paterno's 400th career victory. Seven days later, he made his first start and passed for 250 yards and one touchdown in a win over Michigan.īolden healed up for the following game against Northwestern, so coach Joe Paterno started him. After losses to Illinois and Iowa, McGloin threw two touchdowns in the Nittany Lions' first victory over a Big Ten team that season. Matt McGloin began the 2010 season as the third-string quarterback and found game time against Minnesota after starter Rob Bolden suffered a concussion and backup Kevin Newsome fell to illness.
He led the Sooners to another CFP semifinal, but lost 54-48 to Georgia. In 2017, Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy with 86% of the vote after completing 285-of-404 attempted passes for 4,627 yards, 43 touchdowns and six interceptions. His time for the national stage was here. Oklahoma reached the College Football Playoff but lost 37-17 to Clemson. He finished fourth in Heisman voting with 3,700 passing yards, 36 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Winning the starting role in 2015 led to a Heisman-caliber season. "He was right."Īfter the 2013 season, he enrolled at Oklahoma and walked on for the Sooners. "I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big," Mayfield told ESPN in 2016. He's thought to be the first walk-on true freshman in FBS history to start the first game of the regular season. He broke a school record held by Billy Joe Tolliver, completing 43-of-60 attempted passes. In the first game of the season, he passed for 413 yards and four touchdowns against Southern Methodist University. Mayfield, a freshman at the time, took the baton and ran away with it. He forgoed scholarship offers from Washington State, Rice, New Mexico and Florida Atlantic to walk-on at Texas Tech.īefore the beginning of the 2013 season the Red Raiders' projected starter, Michael Brewer, was out with an injury. The 2018 NFL Draft's first overall pick began his career as a second-string quarterback at Texas Tech.
None has been more popular than the 20 Burlsworth Trophy winner: Baker Mayfield. But since the inception of the Burlsworth Trophy, more notoriety is given to college football's walk-ons.
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