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Football Across Minnesota: Minnesota quarterbacks uncorked: What’s gotten into these guys?

By Chip Scoggins, The Minnesota Star Tribune, 11/19/24, 3:00PM CST

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Ground and pound’ offenses once prevalent across the state are disappearing, replaced by record-setting quarterbacks and air-it-out attacks at several Division II and III schools.


Aaron Syverson (left), Jack Strand (top right) and Cooper Drews are three of Minnesota's best QBs.

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The MIAC championship game on Saturday featured 93 passes, 693 yards in the air and nine touchdown passes by St. John’s and Bethel.

In other words, a typical game.

Quarterbacks at Division II and Division III programs throughout Minnesota are putting up record-breaking, video-game statistics in a statewide passing craze that allows quarterbacks to, as one coach describes it, “throw it around.”

“It’s fun to watch,” Gustavus Adolphus coach Peter Haugen said. “And it’s also tough to defend.”

Pick any Minnesota school and the quarterback likely holds a passing record or two (or many more).

For more on the success of quarterbacks at Minnesota programs, click here to read this story on startribune.com.

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