2022 Top Passing Schools Best FBS Passing Offenses

College play-by-play before 2025 does not record where passes went, so depth, direction, ACE and throw maps start in 2025. Counting stats are the official NCAA season lines.

The whole passing game, not just the quarterback. All 131 offenses ranked by EPA per dropback; Ohio State ranked first in 2022.

All 131 Offenses

Rk	School	Conf	Quarterback	Att	Yds	TD	INT	ANY/A	EPA/DB
1	Ohio State	Big Ten	C.J. Stroud	376	3,568	38	6	10.48	+0.50
2	Kansas	Big 12	Jalon Daniels	306	2,798	27	6	9.57	+0.48
3	Tennessee	SEC	Hendon Hooker	393	4,022	35	3	10.74	+0.45
4	Georgia	SEC	Stetson Bennett	429	3,690	24	6	8.82	+0.44
5	USC	Pac-12	Caleb Williams	466	4,254	38	3	9.36	+0.42
6	Washington	Pac-12	Michael Penix Jr.	515	4,496	30	6	9.14	+0.42
7	TCU	Big 12	Max Duggan	397	3,549	31	4	9.08	+0.39
8	North Texas	Conference USA	Austin Aune	389	3,387	32	9	8.93	+0.38
9	Michigan	Big Ten	J.J. McCarthy	332	2,718	22	3	8.61	+0.37
10	Houston	American Athletic	Clayton Tune	462	3,748	37	10	8.07	+0.37
11	UTSA	Conference USA	Frank Harris	443	3,834	29	6	8.65	+0.36
12	North Carolina	ACC	Drake Maye	486	4,111	35	7	8.25	+0.36
13	BYU	FBS Independents	Jaren Hall	379	3,157	32	6	8.92	+0.36
14	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	Grayson McCall	334	3,025	26	7	8.60	+0.36
15	Florida Atlantic	Conference USA	N'Kosi Perry	332	2,572	25	4	8.15	+0.35
16	Oregon	Pac-12	Bo Nix	402	3,507	28	8	9.09	+0.34
17	Ohio	Mid-American	Kurtis Rourke	428	3,713	25	5	8.37	+0.33
18	Wake Forest	ACC	Sam Hartman	442	3,778	40	14	7.83	+0.32
19	Alabama	SEC	Bryce Young	417	3,333	32	10	7.78	+0.32
20	Arkansas	SEC	KJ Jefferson	321	2,729	24	6	7.88	+0.32
21	UCLA	Pac-12	Dorian Thompson-Robinson	388	3,262	27	8	8.27	+0.32
22	Air Force	Mountain West	Haaziq Daniels	76	796	7	2	9.71	+0.32
23	Tulane	American Athletic	Michael Pratt	358	3,036	29	5	8.61	+0.30
24	South Alabama	Sun Belt	Carter Bradley	385	3,153	25	8	7.84	+0.30
25	East Carolina	American Athletic	Holton Ahlers	440	3,441	23	5	7.88	+0.30
26	Boise State	Mountain West	Taylen Green	338	2,511	19	9	7.03	+0.28
27	James Madison	Sun Belt	Todd Centeio	324	2,853	28	10	8.25	+0.28
28	Florida State	ACC	Jordan Travis	354	3,052	26	7	8.37	+0.27
29	Georgia State	Sun Belt	Darren Grainger	289	2,406	18	6	7.35	+0.27
30	SMU	American Athletic	Tanner Mordecai	468	3,741	33	10	7.94	+0.26
31	Tulsa	American Athletic	Davis Brin	406	3,194	27	8	7.10	+0.26
32	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	Austin Reed	524	4,210	38	9	8.34	+0.26
33	South Carolina	SEC	Spencer Rattler	363	3,042	20	13	7.08	+0.25
34	UAB	Conference USA	Dylan Hopkins	283	2,370	13	5	7.70	+0.25
35	Arizona	Pac-12	Jayden de Laura	437	3,635	26	12	7.38	+0.25
36	Fresno State	Mountain West	Jake Haener	420	3,361	20	10	6.83	+0.25
37	Kansas State	Big 12	Adrian Martinez	348	2,624	21	3	7.60	+0.25
38	LSU	SEC	Jayden Daniels	440	3,448	19	5	6.99	+0.25
39	Texas	Big 12	Quinn Ewers	358	2,790	21	7	7.48	+0.24
40	Maryland	Big Ten	Taulia Tagovailoa	401	3,072	20	6	6.77	+0.24
41	Illinois	Big Ten	Tommy DeVito	313	2,266	15	4	6.80	+0.24
42	Cincinnati	American Athletic	Ben Bryant	399	3,016	22	8	6.80	+0.24
43	App State	Sun Belt	Chase Brice	373	3,126	28	5	8.63	+0.23
44	Duke	ACC	Riley Leonard	365	2,758	20	5	7.50	+0.23
45	UCF	American Athletic	John Rhys Plumlee	411	3,172	22	8	7.01	+0.23
46	Memphis	American Athletic	Seth Henigan	421	3,334	21	7	7.34	+0.23
47	Utah	Pac-12	Cameron Rising	391	3,102	25	8	7.97	+0.23
48	Penn State	Big Ten	Sean Clifford	397	2,994	27	7	7.52	+0.23
49	Missouri	SEC	Brady Cook	339	2,576	12	8	6.48	+0.23
50	Oklahoma	Big 12	Dillon Gabriel	348	2,885	26	7	7.99	+0.22
51	Nebraska	Big Ten	Casey Thompson	335	2,674	17	13	6.25	+0.21
52	Clemson	ACC	DJ Uiagalelei	419	2,921	24	7	6.74	+0.21
53	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	Drew Pyne	303	2,380	22	8	7.31	+0.21
54	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	Taylor Powell	347	2,580	20	8	6.52	+0.21
55	Oregon State	Pac-12	Ben Gulbranson	292	2,272	15	12	6.42	+0.20
56	Kent State	Mid-American	Collin Schlee	332	2,521	14	7	6.86	+0.20
57	Ole Miss	SEC	Jaxson Dart	342	2,721	20	9	7.43	+0.20
58	San José State	Mountain West	Chevan Cordeiro	371	2,834	20	4	6.81	+0.20
59	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	Kyle Vantrease	560	3,857	26	16	6.42	+0.19
60	Temple	American Athletic	E.J. Warner	481	3,308	18	11	6.43	+0.19
61	Arizona State	Pac-12	Trenton Bourguet	400	2,973	17	9	6.30	+0.19
62	Kentucky	SEC	Will Levis	313	2,566	21	13	6.04	+0.19
63	Minnesota	Big Ten	Tanner Morgan	259	2,205	10	9	7.07	+0.19
64	UNLV	Mountain West	Doug Brumfield	336	2,527	15	7	6.42	+0.19
65	Akron	Mid-American	DJ Irons	460	3,256	15	7	5.81	+0.19
66	Purdue	Big Ten	Aidan O'Connell	533	3,690	26	14	6.11	+0.18
67	Syracuse	ACC	Garrett Shrader	317	2,601	19	8	6.87	+0.18
68	West Virginia	Big 12	JT Daniels	418	2,776	20	10	5.92	+0.18
69	Northern Illinois	Mid-American	Ethan Hampton	317	2,162	18	10	6.24	+0.18
70	Wisconsin	Big Ten	Graham Mertz	299	2,202	20	10	6.28	+0.17
71	Vanderbilt	SEC	AJ Swann	305	1,966	22	5	6.60	+0.17
72	Bowling Green	Mid-American	Matt McDonald	383	2,663	22	9	5.99	+0.16
73	Troy	Sun Belt	Gunnar Watson	381	3,194	15	13	6.41	+0.16
74	Toledo	Mid-American	Dequan Finn	400	2,893	30	15	6.44	+0.16
75	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	James Blackman	390	2,661	16	3	6.15	+0.16
76	NC State	ACC	Devin Leary	422	2,747	23	8	6.04	+0.16
77	California	Pac-12	Jack Plummer	462	3,232	23	9	6.19	+0.16
78	Mississippi State	SEC	Will Rogers	581	3,702	35	7	6.39	+0.15
79	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	Chase Cunningham	455	3,169	19	8	6.24	+0.15
80	Baylor	Big 12	Blake Shapen	352	2,728	17	12	6.52	+0.15
81	Buffalo	Mid-American	Cole Snyder	389	2,668	17	10	5.83	+0.15
82	New Mexico State	FBS Independents	Diego Pavia	265	1,922	16	13	5.63	+0.14
83	UTEP	Conference USA	Gavin Hardison	351	2,460	15	8	6.01	+0.14
84	Rice	Conference USA	TJ McMahon	347	2,672	20	16	5.95	+0.13
85	Pittsburgh	ACC	Kedon Slovis	339	2,575	12	10	6.29	+0.13
86	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	Hayden Wolff	407	2,824	19	6	6.23	+0.13
87	Florida	SEC	Anthony Richardson	345	2,757	18	11	7.09	+0.12
88	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	Chandler Rogers	324	2,425	16	5	6.48	+0.12
89	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	Aveon Smith	262	1,771	13	5	5.91	+0.12
90	Stanford	Pac-12	Tanner McKee	442	3,019	15	8	5.77	+0.12
91	Washington State	Pac-12	Cam Ward	462	3,127	24	7	6.19	+0.11
92	Iowa State	Big 12	Hunter Dekkers	465	3,018	19	15	5.13	+0.11
93	Charlotte	Conference USA	Chris Reynolds	426	3,256	27	13	6.58	+0.11
94	San Diego State	Mountain West	Jalen Mayden	298	2,034	14	11	5.37	+0.11
95	Michigan State	Big Ten	Payton Thorne	408	2,820	24	11	6.30	+0.11
96	Texas A&M	SEC	Haynes King	385	2,601	18	6	6.29	+0.10
97	Boston College	ACC	Phil Jurkovec	419	2,893	21	14	5.14	+0.10
98	Virginia Tech	ACC	Grant Wells	319	2,078	9	9	4.82	+0.09
99	Texas Tech	Big 12	Donovan Smith	509	3,511	24	15	5.64	+0.09
100	Louisiana Tech	Conference USA	Parker McNeil	417	3,165	25	17	6.10	+0.08
101	Texas State	Sun Belt	Layne Hatcher	429	2,639	19	8	5.57	+0.08
102	Louisiana	Sun Belt	Ben Wooldridge	400	2,557	26	9	6.09	+0.08
103	Miami	ACC	Tyler Van Dyke	402	2,854	18	11	5.70	+0.08
104	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	Zach Wilcke	325	2,510	17	14	5.79	+0.06
105	Liberty	FBS Independents	Johnathan Bennett	368	2,578	19	15	5.16	+0.06
106	Central Michigan	Mid-American	Daniel Richardson	384	2,485	16	9	5.36	+0.06
107	South Florida	American Athletic	Gerry Bohanon	316	2,283	18	8	6.69	+0.06
108	Oklahoma State	Big 12	Spencer Sanders	493	3,430	22	17	5.70	+0.05
109	Marshall	Sun Belt	Cam Fancher	344	2,382	14	8	5.69	+0.05
110	Louisville	ACC	Malik Cunningham	343	2,477	12	10	5.84	+0.05
111	Auburn	SEC	Robby Ashford	305	2,053	9	13	4.61	+0.05
112	Ball State	Mid-American	John Paddock	467	2,677	18	13	4.95	+0.04
113	Navy	American Athletic	Tai Lavatai	120	1,032	9	6	6.73	+0.03
114	Hawai'i	Mountain West	Brayden Schager	428	2,445	13	9	4.98	+0.03
115	Georgia Tech	ACC	Jeff Sims	370	2,315	10	7	4.79	+0.02
116	Florida International	Conference USA	Grayson James	437	2,587	16	14	4.87	+0.02
117	Nevada	Mountain West	Nate Cox	395	2,321	7	7	4.63	-0.00
118	Colorado State	Mountain West	Clay Millen	316	2,373	12	8	4.94	-0.00
119	Utah State	Mountain West	Cooper Legas	369	2,335	17	16	4.61	-0.01
120	Virginia	ACC	Brennan Armstrong	315	2,090	7	9	4.66	-0.02
121	Indiana	Big Ten	Connor Bazelak	471	2,652	16	10	4.51	-0.02
122	Western Michigan	Mid-American	Jack Salopek	305	1,937	10	15	3.63	-0.02
123	Rutgers	Big Ten	Gavin Wimsatt	322	1,845	11	12	4.17	-0.05
124	UConn	FBS Independents	Zion Turner	243	1,317	10	7	4.24	-0.05
125	Iowa	Big Ten	Spencer Petras	323	1,959	6	6	4.17	-0.05
126	Colorado	Pac-12	J.T. Shrout	338	2,029	10	9	4.68	-0.05
127	Wyoming	Mountain West	Andrew Peasley	251	1,484	10	10	4.27	-0.05
128	Northwestern	Big Ten	Ryan Hilinski	403	2,437	10	15	4.39	-0.05
129	Army	FBS Independents	Cade Ballard	94	785	5	4	6.00	-0.05
130	Massachusetts	FBS Independents	Brady Olson	267	1,380	4	12	2.68	-0.20
131	New Mexico	Mountain West	Miles Kendrick	248	1,230	3	7	2.54	-0.24

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