Top 15 Super Bowl Winning Quarterbacks by College Football Success

Oct 26, 2013; London, United Kingdom; Joe Montana throws a football into the crowd at the NFL Fan Rally at Trafalgar Square in advance of the International Series game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

15. Joe Montana, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 1975-1978

Stats: 268-of-515 (52 percent) for 4,121 Yards, 39 Total Touchdowns and 25 Interceptions

Record as Starter: 18-3, National Championship (1977)

Super Bowl Wins-4

XVI-1981-82 With San Francisco 49ers (Defeated Cincinnati Bengals 26-21)

XIX-1984-85 With San Francisco 49ers (Defeated Miami Dolphins 38-16)

XXIII-1988-89 With San Francisco 49ers (Defeated Cincinnati Bengals 20-16)

XXIV-1989-1990 With San Francisco 49ers (Defeated Denver Broncos 55-10)

This is one guy who would obviously be put on the list. Joe Montana is the only national championship winning quarterback in college who is in the conversation for greatest NFL quarterback of all time. That conversation only exists because of his four Super Bowls and national championship at Notre Dame.

All of those matter, and Joe’s amazing comebacks that he led in the 1970s with the Irish are to be commended. But his championship and great first year as a starter are the only reason he is even on this list. After all, Montana threw as many interceptions as he did touchdowns in college.

So he barely makes the list and is considered the greatest quarterback of all time.

That’s a start in showing how stupid the ring argument is.

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