College Football QB Rankings: Carson Beck vs Dillon Gabriel | CBS Sports

♪ ♪ [HQ SPOTLIGHT] ♪ ♪ >> Chris: WE ARE ONLY 5 DAYS AWAY FROM SEEING THE DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPION, MICHIGAN WOLVERINES TAKE THE FIELD ON SATURDAY NIGHT, AGAINST FRESNO-. THEY HAVE YET TO DECIDE A STARTING QUARTERBACK, HEAD COACH SHARONE MOORE SAYS IT WILL HAPPEN LATER IN THE WEEK. ALEX ORGI, IS EXPECTED TO BE THE STARTER, PUSHED BY SENIOR DAVIS WARREN, AND FORMER WOLVERINES, WEEK ONE STARTER FOR IOWA, DESPITE MAJOR STRUGGLES IN THE PRE-SEASON CAMP, MCNAMARA HAS HAD MAJOR KNEE INJURIES AND HELPED TO LEAD MICHIGAN TO THE CFP, IN THE 2021 SEASON, GETTING A KNOD OVER BRANDON SULLIVAN. JOSH PATE, GIVE US THE QUARTERBACK RANKINGS, JOSH .... WHAT HAVE YOU GOT? >> Josh: YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS WITH THIS QUARTERBACK MOVE IN IOWA, YOU CAN'T STAMP THERE. YOU CAN'T THINK THIS IS GONNA WORK, DO YOU? >> Chris: NO, I ... I IN FACT, I SAID ON THE POD THIS MORNING, I THINK BRANDON SULLIVAN STARTS 7 + GAMES, EVEN THOUGH CADE MCNAMARA ... >> Josh: I AGREE WITH YOU. >> Chris: I AM NOT IN THE CAMP OF BELIEVING THAT CADE MCNAMARA CAN LEAD THIS TEAM TO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF. MAYBE WE WITH HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIM TO GET INJURED TO SEE. WE ARE NOT HERE TO RANK THE BIG-10 QUARTERBACKS, THERE'S ONE, AND THAT'S IT, A GUY MOST WOULD NOT THINK OF AS BEING IN THE BIG 10, DYLAN GABRIEL, THE HEISMAN FAVORITE RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE HIM #1 OVER ALL, YOU HAVE CARSON BECK, #1 AT GEORGIA. WHY DO YOU HAVE BECK AHEAD OF GABRIEL? >> Josh: UM, REALLY ... THAT'S LIKE A COIN-FLIP, EVEN IN THE HEISMAN ODDS MARKET, I WENT WITH BECK, BECAUSE HONESTLY I WAS SWAYED BY NFL PEOPLE, NFL PEOPLE WILL TELL YOU THE MUCH BETTER SUNDAY UPSIDE IS WITH CARSON BECK. I HOPE PETE PRISCO IS NOT WANDERING AROUND THERE, BUT I THINK HE WOULD AGREE WITH ME. DYLAN GABRIEL, HIS APEX IS AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL. CARSON BECK IS SOMEWHAT HERE, HE COULD WIN A TITLE DOWN THE ROAD AWAYS AND IT DOESN'T TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE COLLEGE GAME, THEY MAY NOT AS WELL EXIST WHEN I START TO WATCH SUNDAY, IF I KNOW A GUY WITH SUNDAY POTENTIAL, AND IS IN THE TOP 5 , WHICH GEORGIA HAS AND HAD LAST YEAR AND HE'S GOT PROBABLY THE BEST GROUP OF PASS-CATCHERS HE'S HAD, THAT INCLUDES LOSING BROCK BOWERS. A GREAT GROUP OF PASS CATCHERS. WHY WOULD I LOOK PAST CARSON BECK, AT GEORGIA. MAKE HIM PROVE ME WRONG. HE'S #1, AND GABRIEL IS BEHIND HIMKS #2. -- HIM, #2. >> Chris: RYAN WILSON HAS CARSON BECK, GOING #1 OVER ALL IN THE 2024 MOCK. WE MOIRE ON -- MORE ON THAT IN A MOMENT. 4-5IS INTERESTING, YOU PUT JACKSON DART, AHEAD OF QUINN EWERS. HOW DO YOU COMPARE THE TWO FROM THE SAME CONFERENCE? >> Josh: THE MORE DUEL THREAT IS JACKSON DART, DID IT LAST YEAR, NOT A LOT OF GUESSWORK, I DON'T HAVE TO GUESS, BUT THEY AS A TEAM, OLE MISS, LOST TO JENK IN THE TRANSFER PORTAL, NOT MANY WERE UPSET AT OLE MISS, THEY GOT A QUARTERBACK BACK, HE CAN RUN THE BALL AND THROW THE BALL WELL. #2, HE'S GOTTEN ONE OF THE BEST AND PROBABLY "THE DEEPEST", GROUP OF WIDE RECEIVERS OF ANY OF THESE GUYS IN THE COUNTRY. AND, MULTIPLES OF THEM PLAY ON SUNDAYS. #3, THERE'S A KID WHO, HIMSELF, WON'T WIN THE HEISMAN, BUTULSULTS IS A NAME YOU DON'T KNOW. >> ULYSSES THIS IS NOT GEORGIA OR ALABAMA. THEY HAVE TO BUILD TO A YEAR LIKE THIS, ALL OF THE CHIPS ARE PUSHED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE, IT'S ON JACKSON DART'S SHOULDERS. WITH EWERS, IT'S NOT THAT I AM "DOWN ON HIM" BUT A LOT OF HIS PROFILE IS "VERY GOOD", BUT WING ABOUT GREATNESS, TALKING ABOUT THE TOP THREE, TOP FOUR, FIRST HALF OF THE FIRST-ROUND-D. HE HASN'T PLAYED TO THAT, BUT IT'S NOT A WAYS OFF, IT'S AROUND THE BEND, AROUND THE RIVER PEND. AND, HE'S IN THE SAME CAN SYSTEM FOR THE THIRD YEAR, SAME COORDINATOR FOR THE THIRD YEAR, STARTING THERE FOR THE THIRD YEAR, HE HAS TO STAY HEALTHY, A PREREQUISITE FOR THESE GUYS. HE'S UP THERE BUT NOT BEYOND THESE GUYS WE LISTED. >> Chris: SOME GUYS THAT YOU DIDN'T TAKE, BUT IN THE HEISMAN ODDS COLORADO HAS TO WIN A BUNCH OF GAMES, YOU HAVE SHEDEUR SANDERS AT 6. AND JALEN MILROE, BEHIND HIM. I AM SURPRISED YOU HAVE SANDERS, AHEAD OF MILROE. ONE OF THOSE GUYS IN THE TOP RUNNING FOR THE HEISMAN. >> Josh: , IT'S JAEN MILROE, WE COULD BE SITTING HERE IN NOVEMBER, AND HOW DUMB DOES IT LOOK LIKE, IF WE WHAT DEBOER DID WITH PENIX JR., AND HE IS BORDERLINE, THE SAME TYPE OF PLAYER. I AM ROLLING THE DICE THERE. SHEDEUR, BEING IN FRONT OF MILROE, IS, I THINK ABOUT THIS, AND HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO JUDGE THIS, WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY DOING JUST A PURE HEISMAN THING HERE, WE ARE RANKING QUARTERBACKS. WILL, IF WE DO THAT, WE HAVE TO SORT OF STANDARDIZE OR CALIBRATE THE SCALE, I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THAT, CHRISTOPHER, WHAT IF I TOOK SHEDEUR SANDERS AND PUT HIM AT OHIO STATE. WE WOULD RANK HIM THE #1, OR #2 QUARTERBACK. NOTHING CHANGED ABOUT HIM, BUT THE SURROUNDINGS CHANGED. I DON'T THINK HE HAS THE SUPPORTING CAST OTHER GUYS DO. HOWEVER I THINK HE'S A REALLY, REALLY GOOD PLAYER AND IF HIS LAST NAME WERE DAVIS, HE WOULD BE THOUGHT OF AS A REALLY GOOD PLAYER, THIS IS NOT JUST MERELY THE DEION, BUT HE GOT SACKED OVER 50 TIMES LAST YEAR, WHAT CHANCE DOES HE HAVE, UNLESS THEY'RE SIGNIFICANTLY UPGRADED? >> Chris: IF DEION HEARS THIS, YOU DON'T HAVE HIS SON IN THE TOP FIVE, YOU WON'T GET WITH TO ASK HIM A QUESTION IF YOU COVER COLORADO THIS YEAR. AND, TWO GUYS ARE SIDE BY WITH SIDE, ON THE SAME TEAM LAST YEAR, IT'S AVERY JOHNSON OF KANSAS STATE AT 9, RIGHT BEHIND HIM, WILL HOWARD, HE SUPPLANTED AND HOWARD TRANSFERRED TO OHIO STATE. INTERESTING TAKE, THE OHIO STATE SIDE, LAST YEAR, THEY DIDN'T GET OVER THE HUMP, THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T CAN HAVE THE QUARTERBACK. IS WILL HOWARD THAT MUCH THAN KYLE MCCORD. >> Josh: HE'S BETTER, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S "THAT MUCH BETTER", IN THE AGGREGATE. THEY ARE NOT MILES AWAY IN ONE CATEGORY, BUT DID YOU NOTICE, YOU MADE HALF OF A POINT AND I WILL MAKE THE OTHER HALF OF THE POINT. KANSAS STATE HAD WILL HOWARD, THEY KINDA SAID, "THANKS BUT NO THANKS WE HAVE THE BETTER VERSION IN AVERY JOHNSON", AND DID YOU OKLAHOMA HAD JACKSON ARNOLD, THEY SAID YOU WANT TO LEAVE, BILLING, YOU CAN LEAVE. THE TWO CAST-OFFS FROM OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS STATE, ARE THE QUARTERBACKS OF THE FAVORITES TO MEET IN THE BIG 10 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THAT'S A NOTE TO PUT IN THE STAT PACKET FOR DOWN THE ROAD. AVERY JOHNSON IS A QUARTERBACK THERE AT KANSAS STATE, I DIDN'T PICK THEM TO WIN THE BIG 12, THAT'S PART TWO OF WHERE I COULD LOOK FOOLISH HERE, IF WE GET TO NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, AND THEY ARE IN THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, I COULD SEE MYSELF SAYING: IT WAS OBVIOUS, THIS KID'S THE BEST QUARTERBACK IN THE BIG 12, IN THE TALENT STARVED LEAGUE AT THE HIGHER LEVEL, WHY DID I OVERLOOK THE BEST QUARTERBACK OUT HERE? AVERY JOHNSON COULD BE A STUD, A REALLY, REALLY GOOD LEADER, AN ALPHAIN THE LOCKER ROOM, ALPHA, IN THE LOCKER ROOM. DIDN'T SEE OUR ESTEEMED COLLEGE FOOTBALL MEMBERS THERE, I SAW ME AND THE TUMBLEWEEDS. I LIKE BOTH OF THEM. AND HOWARD, GIVING ME ABOVE-AVERAGE DECISION MAKING. THAT'S ALL I NEED. >> Chris: BIG 10, 1-2-3, IT'S A HUGE DROP OFF AFTER DREW ALERT. AND, WE DIDN'T TALK FAFITA, NOW IN THE BIG 12, THE #8 QUARTE