Super Bowl Stats: All-Time Touchdown Passes by College
In the history of the Super Bowl there have been 154 touchdown passes thrown, a number that is almost certain to grow Sunday when the Chiefs take on the 49ers.
We can all certainly name a good number of the quarterbacks that threw those touchdown passe: Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and plenty of others – but which colleges have produced the most productive Super Bowl quarterbacks all time?
Below is every touchdown pass in Super Bowl history broken down by the college each quarterback attended (last played college football).
43 different schools have produced a player that has thrown a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl, but not all 146 touchdown passes were thrown by quarterbacks.
Here are the all-time touchdown passes in Super Bowl history thrown by college. Make sure to go all the way to the bottom to realize some of the powerhouses that never had the feat.
T-31. 1 Touchdown Pass - 14 Different Colleges
College programs to have one touchdown pass total thrown in Super Bowl history by a former player:
Eastern Illinois (Jimmy Garoppolo)
Nevada (Colin Kaepernick)
Indiana (Antwaan Randle El)
Fresno State (Trent Dilfer)
Washington (Chris Chandler)
NE Louisiana (Stan Humphries – school now known as Louisiana-Monroe)
Kansas State (Steve Grogan)
Youngstown State (Ron Jaworski)
Augustana (Ken Anderson)
Colorado State (Lawrence McCutcheon)
Robert Newhouse (Houston)
Pacific (Bob Lee)
Louisville (Johnny Unitas)
Pittsburgh (Dan Marino)
T-26. 2 Touchdown Passes - 5 Programs
College programs to have two touchdown passes total thrown in Super Bowl history by former players:
Oklahoma (Joe Mixon, Jalen Hurts)
Florida State (Brad Johnson)
Maryland (Frank Reich, Neil O’Donnell)
Miami, FL (Jim Kelly)
LSU (Joe Burrow, David Woodley)
T-18. 3 Touchdown Passes - 8 Programs
College programs to have three touchdown passes total thrown in Super Bowl history by former players:
Ole Miss (Eli Manning)
Morehead State (Phil Simms)
Tennessee (Peyton Manning)
Louisiana (Jake Delhomme)
Syracuse (Donovan McNabb)
Boston College (Matt Hasselbeck 1, Matt Ryan 2)
Arizona (Nick Foles)
Miami, OH (Ben Roethlisberger)
T-10. 4 Touchdown Passes - 8 Programs
College programs to have four touchdown passes total thrown in Super Bowl history by former players:
Washington State (Mark Rypien 2, Drew Bledsoe 2)
Grambling State (Doug Williams)
Georgia (Fran Tarkenton 1, Matt Stafford 3)
Cal (Craig Morton 1, Aaron Rodgers 3)
Wisconsin (Russell Wilson)
Texas Tech (Patrick Mahomes)
Purdue (Drew Brees 2, Bob Griese 1, Len Dawson 1)
Alabama (Bart Starr 3, Ken Stabler 1)
T-7. Delaware - 5 Touchdown Passes
Delaware’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Joe Flacco 3
Rich Gannon 2
T-7. UCLA - 5 Touchdown Passes
UCLA’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Troy Aikman 5
T-7. Stanford - 5 Touchdown Passes
Stanford’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
John Elway 3
Jim Plunkett 2
T-5. Northern Iowa - 6 Touchdown Passes
Northern Iowa’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Kurt Warner 6
T-5. BYU - 6 Touchdown Passes
BYU’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Steve Young 6
4. Navy - 8 Touchdown Passes
Navy’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Roger Staubach 8
3. Louisiana Tech - 9 Touchdown Passes
Louisiana Tech’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Terry Bradshaw 9
2. Notre Dame - 15 Touchdown Passes
Notre Dame’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Joe Montana 11
Joe Theismann 2
Daryle Lamonica 2
1. Michigan - 21 Touchdown Passes
Michigan’s All-Time Super Bowl Touchdown Passes:
Tom Brady 21
See it – All 98 of Tom Brady’s Touchdown Pass Recipients
Notable No-Shows
Some of the biggest college football programs in the nation have never had a former player throw a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl. Among them:
Ohio State
USC
Texas
Nebraska
Penn State
Auburn
Clemson
Michigan State
Texas A&M
