Texas Football: Where Urban Meyer ranked Sam Ehlinger among top 5 QBs
Former Ohio State and Florida head coach Urban Meyer recently ranked his top 5 QBs for 2020, including Texas football rising senior Sam Ehlinger.
It looks like the 2020 season could be the true run for senior Texas football quarterback Sam Ehlinger to cap his career on the Forty Acres in the proper fashion. He’s had a pretty stellar career statistically so far in three years as the starting signal-caller. Head coach Tom Herman has to be pleased with the results he’s received so far from Ehlinger’s time as his starting quarterback.
Herman and Ehlinger present one of the actually more underrated head coach-quarterback combinations in the country. In terms of offensive production, they’ve really only gotten better year-over-year. Last year Ehlinger registered well over 4,000 total yards and 39 total touchdowns, with just 10 picks. Despite the doubling of interceptions and fewer wins than the season before, Ehlinger actually had a more efficient junior season than he did as a sophomore.
Given the constant improvement, Ehlinger showed in his three years with the Longhorns, the heightened expectations are understandable and warranted to some degree. And we’re not the only ones that agree.
The accomplished three-time National Championship winning former Florida Gators and Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer (now a college football analyst with Fox Sports) recently ranked out his top five quarterbacks for the 2020 season. Meyer had a pretty standard top five.
“I put Trevor Lawrence at No. 1 for one reason: he played one more year, that was it.”@CoachUrbanMeyer gives his Preseason Top 5 QBs and explains why he puts the Clemson QB ahead of Justin Fields. pic.twitter.com/Q0QnAvPExY
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) June 3, 2020
The top two were the usual order of Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence and Ohio State’s Justin Fields, in that order. But Ehlinger actually followed Lawrence and Fields in the top three. After Ehlinger was USC’s Kedon Slovis and Florida’s Kyle Trask, in that order, to round out the top five.
The most shocking of that group is Trask making the top five over other usual suspects among the top signal-callers for 2020 including Georgia’s Jamie Newman, Miami’s D’Eriq King, and Iowa State’s Brock Purdy, among others. But there could easily be a Gator and Buckeye bias present since both of their starting quarterbacks made the top five.
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Ehlinger and the Longhorns will really be put to the test out of the gates in 2020. They face a fairly talented Group of Five program to open the season, against the South Florida Bulls. And then a true challenge in a bright national spotlight arrives the following week when the Longhorns travel to Baton Rouge to take on the defending champion LSU Tigers.