Aaron Murray's Freshman Season

If you had told me preseason that Aaron Murray would throw for 2,851 yards, 24 TDs and only 6 INTs with one game remaining on the schedule, I would've thought for sure that we'd have won 9-10 games. Easily. But here we sit at 6-6. (Image by Jim Hipple)

As a point of comparison, here are the first year starter totals for other recent UGA QBs:

• Joe Cox (RSr.) - 2,584 yards / 24 TDs / 15 INTs
  
• Matt Stafford (Fr.) - 1,749 / 7 TDs / 13 INTs
  
• DJ Shockley (RSr.) - 2,588 / 24 TDs / 5 INTs
  
• David Green (RFr.) - 2,789 / 17 TDs
  
• Quincy Carter (Fr.) - 2,484 / 12 TDs
  
• Mike Bobo (RJr.) - 2,440 / 13 TDs
  
• Eric Zeier (Fr.) - 1,984 / 7 TDs

INT information isn't as easy to get your hands on prior to 2004. Also...Bobo was technically a first year starter in 1995, but he was injured so early that I didn't think it was fair to post those stats.

Murray's current passer rating of 162.7 is greater than Mike Bobo's UGA single season record of 155.8. His 61.8% completion percentage is third best in UGA history for a single season, and he's one TD away from tying the single season Georgia record Matt Stafford obtained in his final season before being the #1 pick of the draft.

All of which baffles me when I think about us being 6-6.

PWD