This seems surreal, but we are breaking new ground every year in many different ways. I still remember when Mike Tomlin (and Ben Roethlisberger) force-fed Antonio Brown screen-passes during a competitive game so he could break the NFL receptions record. Wow, what a great way to establish a legacy. Who exactly benefitted from this?
Although college football has now added about three games per season, Cam Ward was actually breaking a noteworthy record: most passing TD's of all time. I don't know how much money that will make for him, but I'm sure it assuages his ego. To achieve this record, he is allowed to count the stats accrued in the fake 2020 season, which did not count against anyone's eligibility. Cam Ward threw 24 touchdowns in six covid games for
Incarnate Ward, an FCS team from San Antonio. Ward nearly kept that pace in 2021, tossing 47 touchdowns (and ten picks) in a full 13-game season.
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The whole concept of this set of records is very transient. There's a pretty decent chance that Dillon Gabriel laps Cam Ward for this very record. Gabriel got to count his stats from the three games before he got hurt and earned a medical redshirt, plus the fake covid year that still counted stats. I think that purists would say "Keenum, Moore, Harrell," but honestly, who cares?
And it's a small little intangible explanation why I want Oregon to beat Ohio State!
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