Re: The 2019 NFL DRAFT
Just for my own boredom... I looked up how many starting qbs for each superbowl in the last 25 years have played in and/or won a national championship as a starter...
1 national championship winner (Cam Newton) . Yes I know Aikman has 1 but he didnt start in one, its like saying Brady had one for 1997.
1 other quarterback start a national championship... Peyton Manning
I'm not sure I'd even say Peyton started one. By the time his game kicked off, Michigan had already won the Rose Bowl so even if he won, he wasn't going to win a national title.
But there's never really been a correlation between the two. Furthermore, I would submit that one flaw your data cannot account for is the drastic change in CFB over the last 25 years.
John Madden used to say, "College football is a running back's game while the NFL is a quarterback's game." Bill Walsh stated that the 2005 Orange Bowl romp of USC over OU was the movement of CFB from a run-oriented sport to a passing sport where it's no longer the Timmy Chang's throwing every down for Hawaii.
Bart Starr is a HOF NFL quarterback. His Alabama career was, well, let's say "less than stellar." He was only in the NFL because of a friend of a friend at Alabama.
It's not true that any name out of the phone book can play NFL QB and win the Super Bowl. More often than not, you need a pretty decent passer. But the right situation can still give you a ring.
Did anyone thing Mark Rypien was a phenomenal QB? No, but he had that one good year and got the ring.
Note also: Notre Dame QB's are perpetually overrated. Whoever signed Rick Mirer and Brady Quinn to pro contracts should be hung at high noon.