OT - Worst QB Performances of All-Time

To add to ChopBlock's post above:

- Clausen was 11-17 for 74 yards passing and 0 TDs with 1 INT.

- Evan Sharpley was 2-5 for 11 yards with 0 TDs and 1 INT.

- Clausen had 9 carries (if they could be called that) for -65 rushing yards.

I remember Michigan got 6 picks against Bill Burke and Todd Schultz of MSU.

It included this little number:

It wasn't a college game, but the worst QB performance I ever saw was Ty Detmer throwing 7 interceptions for the Lions.

Performance in the Sugar Bowl while at Ohio State.

was on full beast mode.  Yikes!

Also not College but I remember my main man Derek Anderson going 2 for 17 with a bunch of turnovers in a 6-3 OT win for my Browns over the Bengals...pretty riveting stuff

Cue the Joe Bauserman throw chart.

but I think back in 2006 or 2007, the QB for Mississippi State threw 6 picks in their opener that year.  I also want to say he got sacked a bunch of times and completed like a 1/3 of his passes for hardly any yards.  I don't remember much about it, except that it was bad enough for me to remember a stat line from a game from a long time ago, by a team I care nothing about.

Besides that, Ty Detmer's 7 int. game is hands down the worst QB performance I've ever seen.

Threw 7 interceptions in a 1987 loss to MSU.

If you're too young to remember the 1987 Michigan-Michigan State game, consider yourself fortunate.



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...partial games I've ever seen was the 2007 UCLA-ND game when McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw 4 picks and gave up a fumble in three disastrous quarters.  He was a true freshman that practically had the clipboard ripped out of his hands when UCLA's starter was injured.

I spent the whole game cringing and hoping he wouldn't be seriously injured, but there's a bright side: Dude survived and is currently on the Vikings roster.

#1 Miami in 1984, Bernie Kosar threw 6 interceptions against us.  (Or should I say to us?)

Weeden:  0 TDs, 4 INTs.

The first half of the 2001 Ohio game.  In that half, John Navarre may have had more turnovers than completions, or at least it felt like it.  And then he was pulled for our final drive before halftime for Jermaine Gonzales, who was still looking at the sideline while the shotgun snap sailed past him for a safety.  We were a heavy favorite, looking to clinch the Big Ten title, and then found ourselves trailing 23-0 at halftime.  

To me, this was the real "Horror" game.  That first half was shockingly bad and we couldn't recover.  (Big John, to his credit, played a lot better in the second half, but we'd dug too big a hole.)  It started the stretch of futility against Tressel, and I felt like our program didn't fully recover for the rest of the Carr era.  

Vinny Testaverde threw 5 INTs and no TDs during the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, which was to decide the winner of the 1986 National Championship. Miami out gained Penn State on the field, 445 yards to 162, with 22 first downs compared to the Nittany Lions 8, but still lost the game. That's probably the worst combo of "terrible performance+in a big game" I can think of.

Nick Sheridan 2008 gets my 2nd place vote.

Jim Clausen, M vs. ND 2007.

Any game Tebow plays in.

Although, probably not all his fault since the Florida defemse terrorized him all game, Troy Smith completed 4 passes in the National Championship game and had -29 rushing yards.

The Sheridan performance against Penn State in 2008 was pretty hard to watch...

11/34 for 68 yards.  Hurray zero picks I guess?