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The following individuals have started games at the quarterback position for the USC Trojans football team, updated from 1975 through 2024. Inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame are designated alongside the player's final season. Players who had taken a redshirt season are designated ().
After a 4–5 start to the season, Moss was benched, and Maiava was named the starter, becoming the first Polynesian quarterback to start at USC. [17] [18] In his first start with the Trojans against Nebraska, he threw for 249 yards and totaled four touchdowns, three passing and one rushing, leading USC to a 28–20 victory.
The Trojans' opponent in the Orange Bowl, Oklahoma, were themselves undefeated and captained by sixth-year quarterback Jason White, who had won the Heisman in 2003; the game marked the first time in NCAA history that two players who had already won the Heisman played against each other. Most analysts expected the game to be close—as USC ...
Sanchez won the 2009 Rose Bowl Most Valuable Player award for his performance on offense; his 413 passing yards ranked second in the history of the Rose Bowl and fourth in Trojan history. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] With Sanchez starting all 13 games, the Trojans ended the season 12–1 and ranked number two in the Coaches' Poll and number three in the AP Poll .
The Trojans have played in 57 bowl games in school history, [2] 39 of which have come since the 1970 season. Although the official NCAA record book does not include bowl games in statistical records until 2002, [3] and most colleges also structure their record books this way, USC counts all bowl games in its records. [1]
His father, Marv Marinovich, had been a lineman and a captain for the USC Trojans during the 1962 national championship season and played in the 1963 Rose Bowl. Marinovich's mother, Trudi (née Fertig), was a high school swimmer who dropped out of USC to marry Marv. Her brother Craig was a star USC quarterback at this time. [1]
He was the starting quarterback of the 1967 USC Trojans football team that won the national championship and the 1968 team that was ranked No. 2 in the final Coaches Poll. [3] [4] He was also selected by the AP, UPI, and Pac-8 coaches as the first-team quarterback on the 1968 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team. [5] [6] [7]
In the 2006 season, Booty was ranked the tenth best quarterback in college football and the number one quarterback in the Pac-10 by Rivals.com. [13] He started all of the games for the USC Trojans at quarterback in 2006 and was named to the rivals.com and Pacific-10 conference coaches 2006 All-Pac-10 team First-team. [14]