Five Quarterback Situations to Watch in College Football This Weekend

Every season there are quarterbacks who have a game or a string of games that thrust themselves and their respective teams into the national spotlight.  This year will be no different.  Here are five games featuring quarterbacks who I look to have breakout games this weekend.

I think you have to start this conversation with USC quarterback Mark Sanchez.  Sanchez is coming off a preseason knee injury that sidelined him for two weeks.  He is back now and is close to 100 percent, and he is expected to start this weekend at Virginia.  Look for Sanchez to have a big game for the Men of Troy.

This is a must-watch game for any college football fan, and you can catch the game on ABC this Saturday at 2:30 pm Central time.

Memphis opens the season with Ole Miss at home, and new starting quarterback Arkelon Hall will have an opportunity to start his first Division I game for the Tigers.  Hall will be operating out of the spread offense and will put up big numbers all season starting in Week One.

Keep an eye on the LSU-Appalachian State contest.  Quarterbacks Armanti Edwards and Andrew Hatch will be the center of attention in this game.  If LSU is upset, it will be due to the play of Edwards, which could catapult him into early Heisman talk.  Hatch, on the other hand, is a former Harvard QB who has all the weapons around him to succeed.

On Thursday, Aug. 28, Stanford is at Oregon State in a Pac-10 battle.  Stanford QB Tavita Pritchard won the starting job in a heated competition.  I look for Pritchard to play well in this game as the Cardinal roll. 

Tennessee opens up at UCLA.  Two first time starters will be going head to head in this one: Jonathan Crompton of UT and Kevin Craft of UCLA.  This game is on national TV on Labor Day, and I look for one of these signal callers to emerge in Week One as a legitimate Division I quarterback.