Oregon QB Bo Nix sets NCAA record with 54th career start, passing Colt McCoy and Kellen Moore
The Ducks signal-caller now stands alone in all-time NCAA starts
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Dean Straka
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Oregon's Bo Nix set an NCAA record with his 54th career start -- most among quarterbacks -- as he started Saturday's 38-24 win over Washington State. Nix's mark puts him in the clear of former quarterbacks like Boise State's Kellen Moore, Texas's Colt McCoy, Washington's Jake Browning and Northwestern's Clayton Thorson. Notre Dame's Sam Hartman is the only active quarterback with 53 starts.
Nix is in his second season as the Ducks' starter after transferring from Auburn, where he emerged as a star in 2019 as the SEC Freshman of the Year and started 34 games in three seasons. He started all 13 games during his debut season with the Ducks and all seven of this year's games. Despite the Pac-12 being loaded at quarterback, he is the most efficient of the league's signal-callers with a league-best 79% completion rate (min. 15 passes) and a 17-to-1 TD-to-INT ratio.
History.
— Oregon Football (@oregonfootball) October 21, 2023
Today marks Bo Nix’s 54th career start, most ever by an NCAA quarterback. #GoDucks x @BoNix10 pic.twitter.com/pZqyl1N5fX
Helping Nix achieve NCAA history was a 2020 season that did not count towards eligibility clocks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With five games left in the regular season plus, presumably, at least one postseason game, Nix will have the opportunity to start at least 60 games during his career.
