The Ohio State Buckeyes needed to exchange the majority of their nationwide title-winning workforce from final season, and but the Buckeyes are undefeated and appear like an excellent stronger workforce than a 12 months in the past.
An enormous motive for that’s how properly quarterback Julian Sayin has been taking part in underneath heart. Sayin, who transferred within the winter of 2024 from Alabama after Nick Saban retired, presently leads the nation in completion proportion. He’s on tempo to interrupt an NCAA report at his present fee.
Let’s check out Sayin’s completion proportion to this point in 2025, and the way it compares to a number of the different nice school soccer quarterbacks in recent times.
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Julian Sayin completion proportion 2025
Sayin has accomplished 80% of his passes this 12 months, which is on-pace for an NCAA report. He has a pair of video games with over 80% completion proportion, together with wins over Minnesota (85.2%) and Wisconsin (85.7%).Â
Throughout Ohio State’s 70-0 win over Grambling State, Sayin accomplished 94.7% of his passes, going 18-of-19 for 406 yards with 4 touchdowns and an interception. He fell only one completion in need of setting an Ohio State report for consecutive completions.Â
If Sayin’s tempo continues all through the season, he’ll set a brand new NCAA report for completion proportion. The final time we noticed this in school soccer was simply two seasons in the past in 2023. Â
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NCAA completion proportion report
The final quarterback to set an NCAA completion proportion report was Bo Nix, when he was a senior at Oregon in 2023. Nix performed his remaining two school seasons at Oregon in 2022 and 2023. In his first season in Eugene, he accomplished 71.9% of his passes, which led the nation.
That was head coach Dan Lanning’s first season because the Geese’ head coach, as Oregon completed 10-3. Nix threw for a career-high 3,593 yards with 29 touchdowns and 7 interceptions.
Nix drastically improved his completion proportion as a senior in 2023. He completed with a 77.4% completion fee, which was an NCAA report. Nix surpassed Alabama quarterback Mac Jones, who set the earlier report with the Tide in 2020.
He had six video games that season through which he accomplished over 80% of his passes. His greatest outing got here throughout Oregon’s 81-7 Week 1 victory over Portland State, when he completed with an 85.2% completion fee, finishing 23 of 27 passes.
He helped Oregon end 12-2 in 2023, because the Geese performed within the Liberty Bowl, which was Nix’s remaining sport. He completed that sport 28-of-35 (80%).
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NCAA all-time completion proportion leaders
This is a take a look at the top-10 all-time completion proportion leaders. You may possible see a couple of names you acknowledge:
RankPlayerComp. %YearSchool1Julian Sayin802025Ohio State2Bo Nix*77.42023Oregon3Mac Jones*77.42020Alabama4Colt McCoy*76.72008Texas5Joe Burrow*76.32019LSU6Carlos Del Rio-Wilson74.42025Marshall7Kellen Moore*74.32011Boise State8Shedeur Sanders*742024Colorado9Will Rogers*73.92021Mississippi State10Daunte Culpepper73.61998UCF
*Signifies bowl stats contains
Mac Jones, 2020
Throughout Mac Jones’ third season with Alabama in 2020, he set a brand new NCAA report for completion proportion with 77.4%. Certainly one of his most spectacular video games that 12 months got here towards Ole Miss, when he accomplished 87.5% of his passes for 417 yards and two touchdowns. Unsurprisingly, he gained the Heisman Trophy that 12 months, and threw for 4,500 yards with 41 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. Â
He helped lead the Tide to a nationwide championship that season, defeating Ohio State 52-24 within the CFP title sport. He accomplished 80% of his passes or higher within the Tide’s two playoff video games towards Notre Dame and Ohio State. Â
Joe Burrow, 2019Â
Joe Burrow and the LSU Tigers set the faculty soccer world on fireplace in 2020. The Tigers completed an ideal 15-0 that season, and gave LSU its first nationwide title since 2007. Burrow set NCAA data in just about each statistical class that season, together with passing yards (5,671), touchdowns (60) and completion proportion (76.3).Â
He additionally gained the Heisman Trophy that 12 months in a landslide victory over finalists Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields.  Â
Kellen Moore, 2011
Former Boise State quarterback and now New Orleans Saints had coach Kellen Moore accomplished an NCAA report 74.3% of his passes in 2011. He threw for 3,800 yards with an NCAA-leading 43 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. The Broncos completed 12-1 that season. Â
Colt McCoy, 2008
Former Texas Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy set an NCAA report for completion proportion in 2008, together with his 76.7%. He helped lead the Longhorns to a 12-1 report that season, with Texas’ lone loss coming to the Ohio State Buckeyes within the Fiesta Bowl. McCoy completed second for the Heisman that 12 months, behind Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford. Florida’s Tim Tebow was additionally a finalist.  Â
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Julian Sayin Heisman odds
As you may see, a number of quarterbacks who set data for completion percentages went on the win the Heisman. Presently, Sayin has +400 odds to win the Heisman, behind Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza (+185).Â
He’a forward of different sign callers like Alabama’s Ty Simpson (+400), Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed (+650) and Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia (+950)
