Jaxson Dart by the Numbers: Ole Miss QB Sits Atop Charts in Many Key Categories
OXFORD, Miss. — There’s a great exchange in the bottom of the eighth inning in the 1999 movie “For Love of the Game.” It’s a quick conversation between the catcher and his pitcher, a 19-year veteran who happens to enter the inning with a perfect game through seven.
Catcher Gus Sinski says, “This, I ain’t seen much of.” Pitcher Billy Chapel responds, “Me, neither.” Gus says, “Chappy, I never have.”
And as Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart continued to find the hands of every receiver he targeted on pass after pass against Middle Tennessee this past Saturday in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, there could be no other reaction than what those two players standing on that pitcher’s mound were saying: “Chappy, I never have.”
Matt Corral’s all-time record for consecutive completions was the first record to fall. Matty had hit 18 in a row in 2020.
And as they say, if you’re going to break a record, why not smash it? Dart added six more completions to reach 24 in a row, before seeing his 25th throw of the day batted away from his intended receiver at the last instant.
Records are meant to be broken.
With this pass, @JaxsonDart breaks the record for pass completions in a game! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ItbjOJZIVs
— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) September 7, 2024
Then the word comes out that Dart had finished the opener against Furman with six consecutive completions, giving him an even 30 straight for the two games. This was also an all-time record-breaker — but not just for the Ole Miss program — but for the SEC!
Jaxson Dart also set a record with 30 straight completed passes. That’s an SEC record.
24/24 359 yards in any game is insane. pic.twitter.com/nSDOBxpsl7
— College Football Headlines (@CFBHeadlines) September 7, 2024
If you happened to catch my last article, I made mention of how crazy good this quarterback and the Rebels are so early in the season. I challenged every quarterback to get a couple of receivers and throw the same routes and see if they could match what the Rebs had done against Furman. Well, now you have 30 straight to try. Good luck.
So, you may ask, in the history of college football, has anyone ever completed more than 30 in a row across multiple games? The answer is, “Yes.” In 2011, Dominique Davis hit 36 in a row while quarterbacking East Carolina. The incompletion on his 37th pass ended the streak and eerily set up the present correlation.
Jaxson had hit six straight against Furman before throwing the incompletion that would become his ONLY incompletion in 37 attempts. This tied him with Davis for the sport’s best 36-for-37 stretch in college football history.
Sure, that’s a technicality you won’t find in the record books, but it’s as real as those 30 straight connections are. I mean, this is execution you just don’t see happen, especially on back-to-back Saturdays in your home stadium.
Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart breaks the SEC record for consecutive completions in a game w/ 24 and he has been the best in the country through 2 weeks. 9 TD, 800+ yards, 87% completion. pic.twitter.com/pnrzVqcnGJ
— Mississippi Sports (@SocialSportsMs) September 7, 2024
Two games into the season, Jaxson Dart is leading the country on several fronts.
Jaxson Dart By the Numbers through Two Games
No. 1 in Passing Yards (795)
No. 1 in Adjusted Passing Yards per Attempt (16.9)
No. 1 in Passing Efficiency Rating (247.4)
No. 1 Yards in Gained per Games Played (397.5)
No. 1 in Completion Percentage (87%)
No. 2 in Total Yards (814)
No. 2 in Passing Yards per Attempt (14.7)
No. 3 in Power 4 QBR (93.5)
No. 3 in Passing Touchdowns (6)
He is also in the top 4 in the current FanDuel Heisman Trophy odds.
Best Offense in CFB 🐀☠️
#1 in Yards Per Game
#1 Scoring Offense
#1 Passing Offense
#1 in Plays Over 20+ Yards #ComeToTheSip pic.twitter.com/2AhoLgRuL0— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) September 8, 2024
There is no denying the Ole Miss offense is arguably the best in the nation, and with Dart at the helm the sky is the limit for the Rebels this season.
“Chappy, I never have.”
Hotty Toddy!
David Walker
David is the consummate true-freshman quarterback, first pioneering the position only a year after college freshmen were given varsity eligibility by the NCAA in 1972. In 1973, the left-handed all-state gunslinger from Sulphur, Louisiana started for the Texas A&M Aggies and earned the All-Southwest Conference Freshman of the Year award as selected by the league’s coaches. David is the first college quarterback ever awarded Freshman of the Year in the NCAA. He was only 17, and still holds the NCAA record as the youngest starting quarterback in college football history. He wore No. 8 at A&M in honor of one of his football heroes, Archie Manning.
In becoming the winningest quarterback ever at A&M, David was converted from a dual-threat QB to a triple option trailblazer. The two-time team captain led three record-breaking offenses that changed the direction of football at A&M forever, establishing once and for all the winning tradition that the Aggies had so-long desired.
As a high school head coach in Houston in the late ‘80s, David stationed his quarterback in the shotgun formation, having him reading defenses and throwing hot routes at a time when such offensive schemes were frowned upon by traditional fans and coaches. One of his quarterbacks tossed 57 passes in a single game, which stood as the all-time Greater Houston Area record for many years.
As you can tell from his bona fides, David is extremely qualified as our expert on all things Quarterback at Ole Miss. Enjoy his exclusive analysis only here at The Rebel Walk!
