2024 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 134 offenses ranked by EPA per dropback; Indiana ranked first in 2024.

All 134 Offenses

Rk	School	Conf	Quarterback	Att	Yds	TD	INT	ANY/A	EPA/DB
1	Indiana	Big Ten	Kurtis Rourke	325	3,176	31	4	10.18	+0.52
2	Tulane	American Athletic	Darian Mensah	294	2,705	24	4	9.48	+0.50
3	Ole Miss	SEC	Jaxson Dart	394	4,060	27	6	10.09	+0.47
4	Miami	ACC	Cam Ward	447	4,278	38	6	9.80	+0.44
5	Oregon	Big Ten	Dillon Gabriel	412	3,612	28	6	9.01	+0.42
6	Ohio State	Big Ten	Will Howard	345	3,075	29	8	8.97	+0.41
7	TCU	Big 12	Josh Hoover	448	3,775	26	9	8.27	+0.40
8	Penn State	Big Ten	Drew Allar	361	3,162	27	8	8.73	+0.39
9	SMU	ACC	Kevin Jennings	394	3,425	27	8	8.64	+0.38
10	Boise State	Mountain West	Maddux Madsen	374	2,821	22	4	7.86	+0.35
11	Louisiana	Sun Belt	Ben Wooldridge	380	3,343	22	7	8.60	+0.35
12	Arizona State	Big 12	Sam Leavitt	324	2,869	25	5	8.91	+0.35
13	Texas State	Sun Belt	Jordan McCloud	387	3,129	30	13	7.71	+0.35
14	Washington State	Pac-12	John Mateer	351	3,189	30	8	8.59	+0.34
15	Louisville	ACC	Tyler Shough	396	3,210	23	4	8.32	+0.34
16	Baylor	Big 12	Sawyer Robertson	357	2,895	29	7	8.13	+0.33
17	Illinois	Big Ten	Luke Altmyer	328	2,605	21	4	7.64	+0.32
18	Syracuse	ACC	Kyle McCord	551	4,293	29	12	7.21	+0.32
19	Georgia Tech	ACC	Haynes King	373	2,840	14	4	7.69	+0.31
20	Alabama	SEC	Jalen Milroe	320	2,812	16	9	7.75	+0.31
21	South Alabama	Sun Belt	Gio Lopez	360	2,854	18	5	7.85	+0.31
22	Colorado	Big 12	Shedeur Sanders	450	3,794	35	7	8.07	+0.30
23	South Carolina	SEC	LaNorris Sellers	300	2,612	20	6	7.78	+0.29
24	Buffalo	Mid-American	CJ Ogbonna	291	2,095	19	4	7.21	+0.29
25	Texas	SEC	Quinn Ewers	443	3,682	34	9	8.09	+0.29
26	Washington	Big Ten	Will Rogers	379	3,103	18	3	7.73	+0.28
27	Vanderbilt	SEC	Diego Pavia	282	2,147	18	3	7.54	+0.28
28	San José State	Mountain West	Walker Eget	481	3,826	29	13	7.74	+0.28
29	Army	American Athletic	Bryson Daily	102	927	7	4	7.95	+0.28
30	Toledo	Mid-American	Tucker Gleason	382	2,744	25	6	7.22	+0.28
31	Navy	American Athletic	Blake Horvath	164	1,486	15	5	8.58	+0.27
32	Tennessee	SEC	Nico Iamaleava	344	2,845	21	7	7.72	+0.27
33	Minnesota	Big Ten	Max Brosmer	368	2,564	18	5	6.51	+0.27
34	Arkansas	SEC	Taylen Green	386	3,171	14	7	7.07	+0.27
35	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	Caden Veltkamp	426	3,394	26	12	7.28	+0.27
36	Memphis	American Athletic	Seth Henigan	449	3,184	23	4	7.17	+0.26
37	Kansas	Big 12	Jalon Daniels	301	2,453	15	10	7.36	+0.26
38	Georgia	SEC	Carson Beck	473	3,621	28	13	7.14	+0.25
39	Colorado State	Mountain West	Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi	330	2,377	15	6	6.96	+0.25
40	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	Riley Leonard	323	2,284	19	5	7.06	+0.24
41	Troy	Sun Belt	Matthew Caldwell	335	2,546	21	9	6.97	+0.23
42	LSU	SEC	Garrett Nussmeier	498	3,780	26	11	7.21	+0.23
43	Clemson	ACC	Cade Klubnik	487	3,496	34	6	7.45	+0.23
44	Jacksonville State	Conference USA	Tyler Huff	272	2,265	13	6	7.48	+0.22
45	Boston College	ACC	Tommy Castellanos	290	2,321	24	7	7.41	+0.22
46	Iowa State	Big 12	Rocco Becht	433	3,287	22	9	7.24	+0.21
47	NC State	ACC	CJ Bailey	353	2,825	18	9	7.03	+0.21
48	Auburn	SEC	Payton Thorne	364	3,113	27	12	7.59	+0.21
49	Oklahoma State	Big 12	Alan Bowman	445	3,175	22	14	6.37	+0.21
50	North Texas	American Athletic	Chandler Morris	499	3,782	31	11	7.52	+0.21
51	Texas Tech	Big 12	Behren Morton	492	3,552	30	9	7.06	+0.21
52	Marshall	Sun Belt	Braylon Braxton	317	2,262	27	4	7.57	+0.21
53	Western Michigan	Mid-American	Hayden Wolff	283	2,225	17	5	7.25	+0.20
54	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	Colton Joseph	327	2,293	17	7	6.10	+0.20
55	Duke	ACC	Maalik Murphy	408	2,941	26	10	6.98	+0.20
56	California	ACC	Fernando Mendoza	404	3,076	15	5	6.61	+0.20
57	East Carolina	American Athletic	Katin Houser	388	3,225	26	15	7.43	+0.20
58	Kansas State	Big 12	Avery Johnson	348	2,532	22	9	7.00	+0.20
59	Texas A&M	SEC	Marcel Reed	316	2,461	16	8	6.86	+0.19
60	Nevada	Mountain West	Brendon Lewis	361	2,710	19	8	6.61	+0.19
61	Rutgers	Big Ten	Athan Kaliakmanis	363	2,449	17	6	6.53	+0.19
62	Cincinnati	Big 12	Brendan Sorsby	387	2,750	18	7	6.64	+0.19
63	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	JC French IV	402	2,829	20	7	6.61	+0.19
64	Liberty	Conference USA	Kaidon Salter	260	1,884	15	4	6.89	+0.19
65	Massachusetts	FBS Independents	Taisun Phommachanh	311	2,180	14	5	6.30	+0.18
66	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	Jaylen Raynor	407	2,724	17	9	5.68	+0.18
67	UNLV	Mountain West	Hajj-Malik Williams	286	2,242	23	5	7.40	+0.18
68	UCLA	Big Ten	Ethan Garbers	395	2,912	17	11	5.97	+0.17
69	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	Brett Gabbert	367	2,778	22	10	6.84	+0.17
70	New Mexico	Mountain West	Devon Dampier	364	2,493	10	9	6.22	+0.17
71	Mississippi State	SEC	Michael Van Buren Jr.	354	2,726	18	4	7.05	+0.17
72	Ohio	Mid-American	Parker Navarro	314	2,402	14	10	6.51	+0.17
73	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	Ethan Vasko	323	2,400	18	10	6.78	+0.17
74	USC	Big Ten	Miller Moss	492	3,511	25	10	6.98	+0.17
75	Missouri	SEC	Brady Cook	363	2,650	12	4	6.71	+0.16
76	BYU	Big 12	Jake Retzlaff	352	2,793	20	12	6.98	+0.16
77	Bowling Green	Mid-American	Connor Bazelak	369	2,693	16	6	6.56	+0.15
78	Utah State	Mountain West	Spencer Petras	416	2,949	27	16	6.23	+0.15
79	West Virginia	Big 12	Garrett Greene	326	2,352	18	12	5.82	+0.15
80	Iowa	Big Ten	Cade McNamara	236	1,518	9	5	5.60	+0.15
81	Wisconsin	Big Ten	Braedyn Locke	359	2,393	14	8	6.12	+0.14
82	Florida International	Conference USA	Keyone Jenkins	327	2,688	24	11	7.59	+0.13
83	Northern Illinois	Mid-American	Ethan Hampton	323	2,115	13	5	6.25	+0.13
84	Pittsburgh	ACC	Eli Holstein	458	3,280	27	12	6.26	+0.13
85	Louisiana Tech	Conference USA	Evan Bullock	379	2,716	18	5	6.38	+0.13
86	Michigan State	Big Ten	Aidan Chiles	336	2,555	13	13	5.63	+0.12
87	North Carolina	ACC	Jacolby Criswell	375	2,836	17	7	6.84	+0.12
88	App State	Sun Belt	Joey Aguilar	390	2,974	23	17	6.37	+0.12
89	UTSA	American Athletic	Owen McCown	470	3,413	26	11	6.67	+0.12
90	UConn	FBS Independents	Joe Fagnano	367	2,399	23	7	6.60	+0.12
91	Arizona	Big 12	Noah Fifita	433	2,949	18	12	5.56	+0.11
92	Nebraska	Big Ten	Dylan Raiola	386	2,666	13	9	5.99	+0.11
93	San Diego State	Mountain West	Danny O'Neil	372	2,525	15	7	5.80	+0.10
94	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	Cole Snyder	405	2,716	17	9	5.66	+0.10
95	Fresno State	Mountain West	Mikey Keene	401	2,865	19	14	5.67	+0.10
96	Hawai'i	Mountain West	Brayden Schager	467	3,151	25	15	5.34	+0.10
97	Georgia State	Sun Belt	Christian Veilleux	445	3,052	21	13	5.82	+0.10
98	Wake Forest	ACC	Hank Bachmeier	398	2,784	16	11	5.58	+0.10
99	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	Nicholas Vattiato	420	3,006	16	10	6.01	+0.10
100	Akron	Mid-American	Ben Finley	387	2,562	15	10	5.43	+0.10
101	Maryland	Big Ten	Billy Edwards Jr.	489	3,311	21	11	5.96	+0.10
102	James Madison	Sun Belt	Alonza Barnett III	354	2,600	25	3	7.18	+0.09
103	Florida	SEC	DJ Lagway	304	2,611	17	12	7.02	+0.09
104	UAB	American Athletic	Jalen Kitna	452	3,206	24	17	5.74	+0.08
105	Rice	American Athletic	E.J. Warner	484	2,955	20	12	5.62	+0.07
106	Ball State	Mid-American	Kadin Semonza	430	2,969	26	11	6.08	+0.07
107	South Florida	American Athletic	Bryce Archie	398	2,687	16	9	5.63	+0.07
108	Florida Atlantic	American Athletic	Cam Fancher	348	2,504	14	11	5.68	+0.06
109	Purdue	Big Ten	Hudson Card	310	2,161	13	7	5.57	+0.05
110	Sam Houston	Conference USA	Hunter Watson	319	1,889	15	9	4.90	+0.03
111	Virginia Tech	ACC	Kyron Drones	315	2,348	15	8	6.29	+0.03
112	Utah	Big 12	Isaac Wilson	344	2,372	20	17	5.10	+0.03
113	Wyoming	Mountain West	Kaden Anderson	340	2,266	11	9	5.23	+0.03
114	Kent State	Mid-American	Tommy Ulatowski	275	1,912	18	9	5.33	+0.02
115	Tulsa	American Athletic	Kirk Francis	429	2,784	23	10	6.03	+0.02
116	Temple	American Athletic	Evan Simon	390	2,491	16	11	4.97	+0.01
117	UCF	Big 12	Dylan Rizk	301	2,339	14	10	6.04	+0.00
118	Oklahoma	SEC	Jackson Arnold	323	2,012	14	6	4.85	-0.01
119	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	Aidan Armenta	242	1,610	11	12	4.46	-0.01
120	Charlotte	American Athletic	Deshawn Purdie	346	2,685	16	11	6.10	-0.02
121	Kentucky	SEC	Brock Vandagriff	306	2,210	15	14	4.82	-0.02
122	Michigan	Big Ten	Davis Warren	288	1,598	11	12	3.97	-0.03
123	UTEP	Conference USA	Skyler Locklear	361	2,401	15	12	5.28	-0.03
124	Stanford	ACC	Ashton Daniels	366	2,316	18	16	4.32	-0.04
125	Virginia	ACC	Anthony Colandrea	399	2,774	16	14	5.03	-0.04
126	Oregon State	Pac-12	Gevani McCoy	357	2,392	7	10	5.08	-0.04
127	Northwestern	Big Ten	Jack Lausch	380	2,195	7	10	4.31	-0.06
128	Central Michigan	Mid-American	Joe Labas	300	1,996	11	10	5.03	-0.06
129	Florida State	ACC	DJ Uiagalelei	351	2,135	11	12	3.95	-0.11
130	New Mexico State	Conference USA	Parker Awad	317	1,699	12	11	3.85	-0.12
131	Air Force	Mountain West	John Busha	131	1,062	5	8	4.78	-0.17
132	Kennesaw State	Conference USA	Khalib Johnson	290	1,609	6	13	3.38	-0.19
133	Houston	Big 12	Donovan Smith	276	1,819	9	18	3.48	-0.21
134	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	Tate Rodemaker	309	2,049	7	16	3.36	-0.23

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