College Football 2018: Midseason awards and superlatives

Best Offensive Player: Tua Tagovailoa

Tua Tagovailoa’s statistics thus far into the season will make you laugh silly because they are just that ridiculous. He essentially only plays one-half to two-thirds of each game but has more impressive numbers than nearly every other quarterback in college football.

To start, he has 21 passing touchdowns and zero interceptions on 123 passing attempts. What that means is that one out of every six passes he throws, a touchdown is scored.

In Week 7, Dwayne Haskins attempted 44 passes. Based on Tua’s touchdown to passing attempt ratio, he would have had seven passing touchdowns if he attempted the same number of passes. And if he did that in all seven games played so far this year, he would have 49 touchdowns by mid season, projecting him to having almost 100 passing touchdowns by the end of the National Championship game.

But of course, Tagovailoa will instead continue to average a completion percentage of 72 percent and three touchdowns per game so long as Alabama continues to dominate their opponent.