First up are Miami\u2019s Carson Beck and Julian Sayin of Ohio State on New Year\u2019s Eve in Texas. Oregon\u2019s Dante Moore, Alabama\u2019s Ty Simpson and Indiana\u2019s Fernando Mendoza take the stage the following day.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In what feels like a wide-open playoff, the quarterbacks\u2019 performance could go a long way to deciding the sport\u2019s top team, and shape April\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n
Big postseasons can change the minds of decision-makers, or at least give them something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First up are Miami\u2019s Carson Beck and Julian Sayin of Ohio State on New Year\u2019s Eve in Texas.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1214,64,63,594,3376,1215,68477,593,709,1219,85,735],"class_list":["post-381862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-nfl","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}