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(Adam Cairns-Imagn Images)<\/p>\nThe 2025 college football season is just over a month away from beginning, which means fans and analysts alike are evaluating, analyzing, and judging teams based on their performance from last season, or their ranking coming into the season. <\/p>\n
This is no different for quarterbacks, which is why CBS Sports released its recent list rankings the quarterbacks in the Big Ten from best to worst. The conference features a combination of returning starters, incoming transfers and first-year starters. Two starting QBs will be incoming true freshman.<\/p>\n
Find out how CBS Sports ranked the QBs in the Big Ten below. It comes as little surprise to see which name appears on top of the list. <\/p>\n
Drew Allar turned down the opportunity to turn pro at the end of last season. However, he\u2019s returning to Happy Valley for one reason \u2014 to win it all.<\/p>\n
2025 will be Allar\u2019s third season as the Nittany Lions\u2019 starting quarterback. He led Penn State to the national semifinal while throwing for 3,327 yards and 24 touchdowns compared to eight interceptions last season. <\/p>\n
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Sayin was a part of last season\u2019s national championship squad as the backup quarterback to Will Howard. A former five-star recruit, fans are excited to see what Sayin can bring to the offense. <\/p>\n
Fans got to see a little bit of his work during the Buckeyes\u2019 annual spring game. In that matchup Sayin completed 17 of his 24 passing attempts for 175 yards. He threw for just 84 yards last season to go with one touchdown.<\/p>\n
Mendoza arrived in Bloomington this offseason after spending two seasons with Cal. He enters a Hoosiers program with high expectations after last season\u2019s run to the College Football Playoff. <\/p>\n
One season ago he threw for 16 touchdowns and six interceptions while passing for 3,004 yards. He\u2019ll need to perform well on the road against both Oregon and Penn State down the stretch if Indiana wants to remain in the CFP conversation in October and November. <\/p>\n
2024 was Altmyer\u2019s second season with the Fighting Illini \u2014 his fourth season overall at the collegiate level after beginning his career at\u00a0Ole Miss<\/a>. He had a career year with 2,717 passing yards on 60.8-percent passing and 22 touchdowns to six interceptions while adding 217 rushing yards and four scores on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n With Altmyer under center, he helped lead Illinois to its first 10-win season last year. They\u2019ll hope he brings similar success to Champaign this fall.<\/p>\n Demond Williams shined in Washington\u2019s bowl 35-34 loss against Louisville<\/a> to end last season. He completed 26 of 32 passes for 374 yards, five total touchdowns and one interception. <\/p>\n As a true freshman in 2024, he was used sporadically under center and ultimately appeared in all 13 games for the Huskies. He finished the year with 944 passing yards to go with eight touchdowns and one interception.<\/p>\n Nico Iamaleava will be put under a microscope in 2025 \u2014 not because of his abilities on the field, but because of how he left Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regardless, Iamaleava led the Volunteers to the CFP last season. For the Bruins to get a quarterback of his caliber out of the transfer portal is huge for Deshaun Foster and company entering year two of their stay in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n Raiola helped lead Nebraska to a 7-6 season in 2024, which saw the team qualify for a bowl game for the first time since the 2016 season. That was the longest postseason drought in Lincoln since the 1950s. He went on to throw for 2,819 yards, 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.<\/p>\n The former five-star recruit will likely need to clear up those mistakes and add a bit more production in 2025 before he\u2019s considered among the best quarterbacks in the country, let alone the Big Ten based on CBS Sports\u2019 rankings. Matt Rhule\u2019s teams historically take a large leap in year three, and Raiola is at the forefront of it in Lincoln.<\/p>\n Sherrone Moore wouldn\u2019t budge on naming a starting quarterback during Big Ten Media Days earlier this week, but all signs point toward Underwood taking the first snaps for Michigan in Week 1. If so, he will be one of two true freshman starting quarterbacks this fall along with Maryland\u2019s Malik Washington.<\/p>\n Bryce Underwood arrived in Ann Arbor to a ton of fanfare. The hype is justified given he\u2019s the No. 1 overall player in the country<\/a> per the On3 Industry Rankings, a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services.<\/p>\n While he started in four games for the Trojans, Maiava appeared in seven total games during his first season with USC. He finished the year with 1,201 passing yards to go with 11 touchdowns and six interceptions.<\/p>\n This came after Maiava lit up the Mountain West Conference at UNLV as a true freshman in 2023. There, he played a full season as the starter where he totaled 3,085 passing yard to go with 17 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He then transferred to USC, where he is now entering year two in Lincoln Riley\u2019s offense in 2025.<\/p>\n Similar to Maiava, Moore arrived in Eugene with prior experience but was forced to play a backup role during their first season with their new program. As a true freshman in 2023, Moore started five games for UCLA and threw for 1,610 yards along with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions.<\/p>\n He\u2019s now set to take over the starting quarterback job for a national championship contender. Moore has the opportunity to prove his doubters wrong by leading the Ducks back to the CFP in 2025. It helps that he has a fantastic supporting cast. <\/p>\n 11. Aidan Chiles<\/a>, Michigan State<\/a>![\"Demond](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Demond-Williams-Jr-1024x538.jpg\")
\u00a9 GABY VELASQUEZ\/ USA TODAY \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n![\"Michigan](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Michigan-Thumbnail-2025-07-21T212936.881-1024x538.png\")
Michigan Wolverines football quarterback Bryce Underwood was the No. 1 overall recruit in the 2025 class. (Photo by Per Kjeldsen \/ TheWolverine.com)<\/p>\n
12. Mark Gronowski<\/a>, Iowa<\/a>
13. Billy Edwards Jr.<\/a>, Washington<\/a>
14. Preston Stone<\/a>, Northwestern<\/a>
15. Malik Washington<\/a>, Maryland<\/a>
16. Athan Kaliakmanis<\/a>,\u00a0Rutgers<\/a>
17. Ryan Browne<\/a>, Purdue<\/a>
18. Drake Lindsey<\/a>, Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 college football season is just over a month away from beginning, which means fans and analysts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[40196,40197,40198,5977,32728,27596,40199,5792,5983,26735,7,39143,32732,15525,48498,40202,5805,40203,48499],"class_list":{"0":"post-240129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aidan-chiles-23-downey","9":"tag-athan-kaliakmanis-21-antioch-community","10":"tag-billy-edwards-jr-21-lake-braddock","11":"tag-bryce-underwood-25-belleville-high-school","12":"tag-dante-moore-23-martin-luther-king","13":"tag-demond-williams-jr-24-basha","14":"tag-drake-lindsey-24-fayetteville","15":"tag-drew-allar-22-medina","16":"tag-dylan-raiola-24-buford","17":"tag-fernando-mendoza-22-columbus","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-jayden-maiava-22-kaimuki","20":"tag-julian-sayin-24-carlsbad","21":"tag-luke-altmyer-21-starkville","22":"tag-malik-washington-25-archbishop-spalding","23":"tag-mark-gronowski-20-neuqua-valley","24":"tag-nico-iamaleava-23-warren","25":"tag-preston-stone-21-parish-episcopal-school","26":"tag-ryan-browne-23-milford-academy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}