Top 15 Super Bowl Winning Quarterbacks by College Football Success
13. Brett Favre, Southern Miss Golden Eagles, 1987-1990
Stats: 613-of-1,169 (52.4 percent) for 7,695 Yards, 52 Total Touchdowns and 34 Interceptions
Record as Starter: 29-17
Super Bowl Wins-1
XXXI-1996-97 With Green Bay Packers (Defeated New England Patriots 35-21)
The reckless interception machine did the same thing in college, but Brett Favre stayed close to home at that time and went to Southern Miss to make a name for himself. Once again, we’re dealing with somebody who didn’t win any national championship.
But we are dealing with a guy who took the Golden Eagles to levels they had never seen before while also making headlines for his party lifestyle off the field, a lifestyle that followed him through his NFL career.
Of course, playing at such a small school forced Favre to go relatively unnoticed going into the NFL, and he was drafted late, traded by the Falcons to the Packers, and barely got a chance to play. More than 20 years later, he’s revealed as one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game of football. And it all started with a nice run at a small school in Mississippi.
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