Where Oregon Ducks' Dante Moore ranks among Josh Pate's top QBs in Big Ten for 2025 season
Where Oregon Ducks' Dante Moore ranks among Josh Pate's top QBs in Big Ten for 2025 season
It hasn't been set in stone quite yet who the Oregon Ducks' starting quarterback will be in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season, as both Dante Moore and Austin Novosad continue to battle it out over the offseason and compete to see who the successor to Dillon Gabriel will end up being.
The national perception, though, is that Moore will take over as the starter, being the player with more experience on the field and a higher profile as a former 5-star recruit coming into the position battle.
Whichever player ends up winning the job will have some big shoes to fill, but there is a lot of confidence that their passer can get the job done and return Oregon to the prominence that they saw a year ago, winning the Big Ten Championship and going into the College Football Playoff as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation.
This past week, notable CBS Sports analyst Josh Pate released his power rankings of the top quarterbacks in the Big Ten, and he had Moore near the top of the list.
It comes as no shock to see Allar at the top of the list, and with Sayin and Moore at No. 2 and No. 3, it's hard to argue. Where things get a bit interesting is at the No. 4 position, where Williams is getting a lot of love from Washington, and further down the list, where Michigan's true freshman QB is ranked ahead of the likes of Mendoza and Iamaleava.
As for Moore, there is a lot of hype in Eugene about what he can do this year with the Ducks. A number of players on the team, from former Duck Tez Johnson to current Duck Dakorien Moore, have propped him up as a Heisman Trophy contender in 2025, and there's a hope that he unlocks a level of Oregon's offense under Will Stein that we didn't see with Gabriel under center.
He's got to beat out Novosad for the job before any of this can come to fruition, but should that happen, there's a strong sense of confidence in Eugene.
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