{"id":442300,"date":"2026-01-28T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442300\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:02:12","slug":"which-colleges-have-produced-super-bowl-starting-qbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442300\/","title":{"rendered":"Which colleges have produced Super Bowl starting QBs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden State knows how to produce golden talent. California<\/a> has generated more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks than any other college. Four different Cal signal-callers have started in the big game; most recently, Jared Goff<\/a> in Super Bowl LIII<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Super Bowl<\/a> introduces two new schools to the list. Each team’s quarterback will become the first Super Bowl starter from his respective school. The Seattle Seahawks<\/a>‘ Sam Darnold<\/a> adds a notch to USC<\/a>‘s belt, and the New England Patriots<\/a>‘ Drake Maye<\/a> brings glory to North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ahead of this year’s game, check out the colleges that have produced the most Super Bowl starting quarterbacks below:<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n

2 Related<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

California: Aaron Rodgers<\/a>, Jared Goff<\/a>, Craig Morton, Joe Kapp<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

Notre Dame<\/a>: Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Daryle Lamonica<\/p>\n

Alabama<\/a>: Bart Starr, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler<\/p>\n

Purdue<\/a>: Drew Brees, Len Dawson, Bob Griese<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

Washington State<\/a>: Drew Bledsoe, Mark Rypien<\/p>\n

BYU<\/a>: Steve Young, Jim McMahon<\/p>\n

Boston College<\/a>: Matt Ryan, Matt Hasselbeck<\/p>\n

Stanford<\/a>: John Elway, Jim Plunkett<\/p>\n

LSU<\/a>: Joe Burrow<\/a>, David Woodley<\/p>\n

Delaware<\/a>: Joe Flacco<\/a>, Rich Gannon<\/p>\n

UCLA<\/a>: Troy Aikman, Billy Kilmer<\/p>\n

Georgia<\/a>: Matthew Stafford<\/a>, Fran Tarkenton<\/p>\n

Maryland<\/a>: Boomer Esiason, Neil O’Donnell<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

USC<\/a>: Sam Darnold<\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/a>: Drake Maye<\/p>\n

Alcorn State<\/a>: Steve McNair<\/p>\n

Florida<\/a>: Rex Grossman<\/p>\n

Oklahoma<\/a>: Jalen Hurts<\/a><\/p>\n

Grambling State<\/a>: Doug Williams<\/p>\n

Tennessee<\/a>: Peyton Manning<\/p>\n

Illinois<\/a>: Tony Eason<\/p>\n

Northern Iowa<\/a>: Kurt Warner<\/p>\n

Iowa State<\/a>: Brock Purdy<\/a><\/p>\n

Penn State<\/a>: Kerry Collins<\/p>\n

Louisiana<\/a>: Jake Delhomme<\/p>\n

Florida State<\/a>: Brad Johnson<\/p>\n

Louisiana Tech<\/a>: Terry Bradshaw<\/p>\n

Fresno State<\/a>: Trent Dilfer<\/p>\n

Louisville<\/a>: Johnny Unitas<\/p>\n

Nevada<\/a>: Colin Kaepernick<\/p>\n

Arizona<\/a>: Nick Foles<\/a><\/p>\n

Eastern Illinois<\/a>: Jimmy Garoppolo<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington<\/a>: Chris Chandler<\/p>\n

Ole Miss<\/a>: Eli Manning<\/p>\n

Auburn<\/a>: Cam Newton<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh<\/a>: Dan Marino<\/p>\n

Wisconsin<\/a>: Russell Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Miss<\/a>: Brett Favre<\/p>\n

Augustana (IL)<\/a>: Ken Anderson<\/p>\n

Syracuse<\/a>: Donovan McNabb<\/p>\n

Michigan State<\/a>: Earl Morrall<\/p>\n

Texas Tech<\/a>: Patrick Mahomes<\/a><\/p>\n

Morehead State<\/a>: Phil Simms<\/p>\n

UL-Monroe<\/a>: Stan Humphries<\/p>\n

Navy<\/a>: Roger Staubach<\/p>\n

Nebraska<\/a>: Vince Ferragamo<\/p>\n

West Virginia<\/a>: Jeff Hostetler<\/p>\n

Miami (FL)<\/a>: Jim Kelly<\/p>\n

Youngstown State<\/a>: Ron Jaworski<\/p>\n

Miami (OH)<\/a>: Ben Roethlisberger<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/a>: Tom Brady<\/p>\n

Check out the ESPN NFL hub page<\/a> and ESPN college football hub page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State knows how to produce golden talent. California has generated more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-442300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442300","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=442300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}