Miami’s Cam Ward units NCAA Division I document for profession landing passes

Cam Ward made NCAA historical past in his remaining faculty sport.

Miami’s quarterback threw the career-high 156th landing move of his faculty profession on Saturday, connecting with Jacolby George for a 4-yard rating with 4:12 left within the first quarter of the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

That’s the Division I – FBS and FCS – document, yet one more than Houston’s Case Keenum set from 2007-2011.

Ward might not maintain the document for lengthy. Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel — whose workforce might play as many as three video games within the College Football Playoff — has 153 landing passes in his profession to this point, in six seasons at UCF, Oklahoma and now Oregon.

Regardless, Ward is assured to complete faculty with probably the greatest careers of any quarterback at any degree.

He entered Saturday with 17,999 yards — 6,908 at Incarnate Word, 6,968 at Washington State and 4,123 at Miami — for the third-most yards in NCAA historical past behind solely Keenum (19,217) and Gabriel (18,423).

And when it is throughout, Ward shall be on the landing record for some time, too.

The NCAA document for all divisions is 162 landing passes by John Matocha of Division II Colorado School of Mines from 2019-2023.

Shepherd’s Tyson Bagent of Division II threw for 159 touchdowns from 2018 to 2022. Mount Union’s Braxton Punk of Division III threw for 158 from 2019 to 2023; North Central’s Luke Lehnen, whose workforce will play within the Division III nationwide championship sport subsequent month, additionally has 158 profession factors.

Behind them, Alex Tanney of Division III Monmouth is fifth with 157 landing passes from 2007 to 2011, and Ward’s first landing on Saturday moved him alone to sixth on the NCAA record.

Ward rewrote the Miami document books in 2024, his solely season with the Hurricanes. He will depart as Miami’s season chief in yards, completions and landing passes. He was on tempo getting into Saturday to go away because the Hurricanes’ chief in completion proportion — for each a season (65.8%, set in 2023 by Tyler Van Dyke) and a profession (64.3% by D’Eriq King in 2020 and 2021).

Associated Press reporting.

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