Ferragamo had shared the starting quarterback job with Steve Bartkowski at Cal for two seasons before moving on the Nebraska. In Super Bowl XIV, Ferragamo was 15-for-25 for 212 yards, no Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl. Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both games. ---Craig Morton, quarterback, Denver Broncos, Super Bowl XII, 1978 (1977 season) The starting running backs for both teams in Super Bowl XLVIII were Cal alumni. Like Lynch, Vereen had a big Redbox Bowl Offensive MVP 2018 Fr. 10 2018 Brandon McIlwain: So. 2 [1] 2018 Ross Bowers: Jr. 1 2017 So. 12 2016 Davis Webb: Sr. 12 2015 Jared Goff: Jr. 13 No. 1 overall NFL draft pick All-Pac-12 First Team [2] Armed Forces Bowl Offensive MVP 2014 So. 12 2013 Fr. 12 2012 Allan Bridgford Jr. 3 2012 Zach Maynard: Sr. 9 2011 Jr. 13 2010 Brock A closer look at the five Cal quarterbacks to start the Super Bowl: JOE KAPP. At Cal: The forward pass wasn’t really a thing when Kapp, now 80, was in college. In 30 games over three seasons At least the quarterback made his time count: Rodgers was named MVP of the Green Bay Packers' 2011 Super Bowl XLV win. Cal ranks fifth in Super Bowl appearances among Pac-12 schools, behind No. 17 The only Cal QB to win a Super Bowl, Rodgers steered the wild-card Packers to four postseason wins and was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLV after tearing through the Pittsburgh secondary for 304 1 Daryle Lamonica (Clovis) – He’s the first QB from California to start in the Super Bowl when he did it in the second Super Bowl played in 1968 between the Oakland Raiders and victorious Green Bay Packers. 1 Aaron Rodgers (Pleasant Valley, Chico) – He’s still looking for a second Super Bowl title after leading Packers past Steelers in Cal has had more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks than any other college. Goff joins Joe Kapp of the Vikings, Craig Morton of the Cowboys and Broncos, Vince Ferragamo of the Rams and Aaron Rodgers of the Packers as Cal quarterbacks in the Super Bowl. “Yeah, all the Cal guys to play in the Super Bowl, right? So exciting. I think we have five P.S.: Runners-up to Cal’s five starting Super Bowl quarterbacks are, according to Yahoo: Alabama (3) Bart Starr, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler; Notre Dame (3) Daryle Lamonica, Joe Theismann, Joe Cal’s list of top-notch players really is stunning to behold. Since the Bears lost to Iowa in that 1959 Rose Bowl, the program has sent 15 quarterbacks into the NFL, including Kapp, whose Believe it or not, Cal has become the most prolific school in producing Super Bowl quarterbacks. Los Angeles Rams QB Jared Goff will be the fourth Cal QB to start in a Super Bowl when the Rams Elway and the Broncos were beaten up again in Super Bowl XII by another NFC East team; this time, it was MVP Doug Williams and his Washington teammates smashing Denver 42-10 to get on the list of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. Williams was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl. This California football roster has famous All-Americans, California quarterbacks in the NFL, and Golden Bears players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Featuring some of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time , the best California QBs include Jared Goff, Aaron Rodgers, David Webb, Troy Taylor, and even a recent quarterback like Chase NEW ORLEANS — On Wednesdays and Thursdays, Patrick Mahomes enters the Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks room around 6:30 a.m. He pulls his headphones over his ears, his hoodie over the headphones. When the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles square off Sunday in New Orleans, starting quarterbacks from the same state will be going head-to-head for the fifth time in Super Bowl history. He’d come back with Denver for Super Bowl XII. Since then, Vince Ferragamo, who spent 1972 and ’73 at Cal and two more years at Nebraska, and Aaron Rodgers (at Cal 2003 and ’04) have put “starting Super Bowl quarterback” on their resumes, Ferragamo in Super Bowl XIV and Rodgers in Super Bowl XLV. He is The Other Quarterback in Super Bowl 2025, if only because he isn’t the one 60 minutes from a three-peat. Jalen Hurts warms up before the Eagles’ loss to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII Super Bowl wins by quarterback jersey number. Here is a full look at how many Super Bowls have been won by quarterbacks from No. 0 to No. 19: 0. None Brady and twleve other former California high school quarterbacks have combined to make 28 Super Bowl starts, the most of any state in the nation. Former California High School QB’s to start in a Super Bowl. Super Bowl II – Daryle Lamonica, Clovis High School; Super Bowl III – Joe Kapp, Hart High School
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