College QB shuffle: about half of FBS starters are transfers

By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer

There have been a lot of quarterbacks on the move in college football. About half of the starting QBs for the 131 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in this season’s openers didn’t initially attend their current schools. That includes 32 of the 65 Power Five teams, with 19 of those being first-year transfers. The increased mobility of quarterbacks is a byproduct of the transfer portal and the extra season of eligibility for players who were part of pandemic-altered 2020 season. There are four former Oklahoma quarterbacks now starting for other teams. And the new Sooners quarterback is Dillon Gabriel, a transfer from Group of Five team UCF.