Although the SEC was most likely the last major football conference to start recruiting black quarterbacks, for over forty-year span...
In 1972, Doug Dickey recruited the top quarterback in the state of Florida, and brought him to Gainesville.
Willie Wood was the first black quarterback to play at USC, and the first in the PAC-8 conference in 1957.
Since 1972, Ohio State University has had more black quarterbacks to play at the university than any other major college in America.
The Heisman Trophy has seen over 200 quarterbacks finish on the top ten list of in the final voting.
The most prestigious award a college football player can win is called the Heisman Trophy.
Jackson State University quarterback Shedeur Sanders becomes the first winner of the BIP Memorial Trophy for HBCU (Historical Black Colleges and Universities)...