The best of the best: QB Aaron Murray boasts top SEC passer rating, how do the rest stack up?

georgiagamedayr | November 12, 2012 at 7:12 pm | 2 Comments

Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray (11) has been stellar in leading the Bulldogs to its second-straight SEC Championship game. (Dale Zanine-US PRESSWIRE)

In every other game this season, and basically all of last year as well, Alabama’s AJ McCarron had been nearly untouchable. However, as his team went so did he, and in Saturday’s upset loss at home to Texas A&M, McCarron tossed his first two interceptions of the season.

Thus, McCarron’s nearly perfect season, both in the win-loss column and in the statistics department, went by the wayside.

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The nation’s former leader in passer rating now does not even lead his own conference.

As Georgia as gone, so has their quarterback, Aaron Murray, who has been sparkling over the last few weeks, breaking the Bulldogs’ career touchdown record in the process. Against Kentucky, Murray’s 73rd scoring pass broke David Greene’s old record set between 2001-04.

Murray’s 170.7 rating is good for third in the nation right now.

Check out where your favorite SEC signal-caller rates amongst his peers.

	Name	Att	Comp	Pct.	Yards	TD	Int	Rating
1	Aaron Murray	275	181	65.8%	2656	24	7	170.66
2	AJ McCarron	238	157	66.0%	2158	20	2	168.18
3	Connor Shaw	182	120	65.9%	1610	14	6	159.03
4	Johnny Manziel	336	227	67.6%	2780	18	6	151.17
5	Tyler Bray	388	237	61.1%	3216	29	10	150.22
6	Tyler Wilson	320	195	60.9%	2803	18	10	146.83
7	Bo Wallace	279	183	65.6%	2239	12	10	140.02
8	Tyler Russell	301	182	60.5%	2249	17	4	139.21
9	Jeff Driskel	193	125	64.8%	1324	10	3	136.38
10	Jordan Rodgers	244	144	59.0%	1945	9	3	135.69
11	Zach Mettenberger	263	155	58.9%	1990	10	4	132.01
12	James Franklin	211	122	57.8%	1283	8	7	114.77
13	Corbin Berkstresser	131	64	48.9%	698	3	5	93.55

If Murray keeps these types of numbers up, not only can Dawg Nation get excited heading into the SEC Championship game, but potentially about seeing their captain in New York City as a Heisman Trophy finalist.

Source: Saturday Down South

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BM4Bama

AJ has higher completion ratio and less interceptions so……?

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- SRhoades14
  
  …and fewer TD’s… which means the team can score without him… TD/Scoring percentage accounts for huge chunk of passer rating. AJ still has a way to go
  
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