College Football Quarterback Power Rankings: Week 7

Another guy who dropped a couple of spots on our list this week was Greg Ward Jr. His Houston Cougars suffered a tough upset loss to a pesky Navy team which now finds itself ranked No. 25 in the AP Poll. Houston, however, may have been essentially eliminated from the College Football Playoff race.

One loss doesn’t necessarily drop a team from the race, but when Houston is playing mediocre opponents from the AAC for the rest of the year, it’s tougher to make a case for them to be in the final four. There is one remaining game on the schedule for the Cougars which could bolster their resume and it happens to be Louisville.

Ward Jr. will need to put the Navy loss behind him, though. He still had a solid game, passing for 359 yards and three touchdowns with two picks while also rushing for 94 yards and a score, but his defense couldn’t get the necessary stops.

Houston got behind by too much early on and was playing catch-up for the entire second half. Ward Jr. continues to be one of the best dual-threats in the nation and he has impressive numbers even though he’s missed a game already.

Four 300-plus yard passing games and three 60-plus rushing yard contests with 17 total touchdowns are enough for me to consider him a top-five quarterback in the country right now.