# NCAA Division I FBS total offense leaders

The NCAA Division I FBS total offense leaders are career, single-season, and single-game leaders in total offense yards and touchdown responsibility. Both of these statistics are defined as the sum of passing and rushing yards or touchdowns, and do not include any receiving or returns stats. These lists are dominated by more recent players for several reasons:
* Since 1955, seasons have increased from 10 games to 11 and then 12 games in length.
* The NCAA didn't allow freshmen to play varsity football until 1972 (with the exception of the World War II years), allowing players to have four-year careers.
* Bowl games only began counting toward single-season and career statistics in 2002. This affects players such as Ty Detmer, though the vast majority of players on this list played after 2002 anyway.
* In recent decades, starting with the Southeastern Conference in 1992, FBS conferences have introduced their own championship games, which have always counted fully toward single-season and career statistics.
* The NCAA ruled that the 2020 season, heavily disrupted by COVID-19, would not count against the athletic eligibility of any football player. This gave every player active in that season the opportunity for five years of eligibility instead of the normal four.
* Only seasons in which a team was considered to be a part of the Football Bowl Subdivision are included in these lists. Players such as Taylor Heinicke and Chad Pennington played for teams who reclassified to the FBS during their careers, and only their stats from the FBS years are eligible for inclusion.
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    Statistics accurate as of January 15, 2025.

## Total offense yards

The career leader in total offense yards is Houston's Case Keenum. Keenum was granted a fifth year of eligibility after being injured in Houston's third game in 2010 but he would still top the list by nearly 2,500 yards if 2010 were not included. The second player on the list, Hawaii's Timmy Chang, also had a fifth season after being granted a medical redshirt after being injured in 2001. Chang broke the record previously held by BYU's Ty Detmer, who is the only player in the top 30 whose entire college career was in the 20th century. Two other players in the top 30, Chang and Philip Rivers of NC State, played their first college seasons in 2000, which depending on definitions is part of either the 20th or 21st century.
The single-season leader in passing yards is Joe Burrow, who is the only player to ever top 6,000 yards of total offense in a single season. Burrow's yards came in 15 games, while second place Bailey Zappe's yards came in 14 games, and third place B. J. Symons's yards came in just 13 games. Symons held the single-season record for 16 years after breaking the record previously set by Houston's David Klingler in 1990.
The single-game record belongs to Patrick Mahomes, whose 819 yards came in a 2016 loss.
While these lists have many of the same players as the passing leaders list, the player with the most career yards without appearing on the passing yards list is Nevada's Colin Kaepernick, whose 4,112 rushing yards gets him on the list, even as his 10,098 career passing yards ranks outside the top 100. Similarly, Louisville's Lamar Jackson's 2017 season ranks outside the top 100 in passing yards, but his 1,601 rushing yards bring him into the list. Although players of any position are eligible for inclusion, all players on all three lists are quarterbacks, as the rushing leaders on the career, single-season, and single-game lists of 6,405, 2,628, and 427 yards respectively, are significantly below the 30th ranked players on the lists below.

### Career

| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Seasons |
| 1 | Case Keenum | 20,114 | 19,217 | 897 | 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Houston |
| 2 | Dillon Gabriel | 19,931 | 18,722 | 1,209 | 2019 2020 2021 UCF ᛫ 2022 2023 Oklahoma ᛫ 2024 Oregon |
| 3 | Bo Nix | 16,964 | 15,351 | 1,613 | 2019 2020 2021 Auburn ᛫ 2022 2023 Oregon |
| 4 | Timmy Chang | 16,910 | 17,072 | -162 | 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Hawaii |
| 5 | Sam Hartman | 16,634 | 15,656 | 978 | 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Wake Forest ᛫ 2023 Notre Dame |
| 6 | Landry Jones | 16,271 | 16,646 | -375 | 2009 2010 2011 2012 Oklahoma |
| 7 | Jayden Daniels | 16,056 | 12,749 | 3,307 | 2019 2020 2021 Arizona State ᛫ 2022 2023 LSU |
| 8 | Dan LeFevour | 15,853 | 12,905 | 2,948 | 2006 2007 2008 2009 Central Michigan |
| 9 | Baker Mayfield | 15,690 | 14,607 | 1,083 | 2013 Texas Tech ᛫ 2015 2016 2017 Oklahoma |
| 10 | Graham Harrell | 15,611 | 15,793 | -182 | 2005 2006 2007 2008 Texas Tech |
| 11 | Holton Ahlers | 15,373 | 13,927 | 1,446 | 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 East Carolina |
| 12 | Seth Henigan | 15,164 | 14,266 | 898 | 2021 2022 2023 2024 Memphis |
| 13 | Rakeem Cato | 14,918 | 14,079 | 839 | 2011 2012 2013 2014 Marshall |
| 14 | Colt McCoy | 14,824 | 13,253 | 1,571 | 2006 2007 2008 2009 Texas |
| 15 | Colt Brennan | 14,740 | 14,193 | 547 | 2005 2006 2007 Hawaii |
| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Seasons |
| 16 | Ty Detmer | 14,665 | 15,031 | -366 | 1988 1989 1990 1991 BYU |
| 17 | Kellen Moore | 14,534 | 14,667 | -133 | 2008 2009 2010 2011 Boise State |
| 18 | Will Rogers | 14,378 | 14,773 | -395 | 2020 2021 2022 2023 Mississippi State ᛫ 2024 Washington |
| 19 | Colin Kaepernick | 14,210 | 10,098 | 4,112 | 2007 2008 2009 2010 Nevada |
| 20 | Luke Falk | 14,086 | 14,486 | -400 | 2014 2015 2016 2017 Washington State |
| 21 | Frank Harris | 14,007 | 11,862 | 2,145 | 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 UTSA |
| 22 | Michael Penix Jr. | 14,006 | 13,741 | 265 | 2018 2019 2020 2021 Indiana ᛫ 2022 2023 Washington |
| 23 | Chevan Cordeiro | 13,811 | 12,191 | 1,620 | 2018 2019 2020 2021 Hawaii ᛫ 2022 2023 San Jose State |
| 24 | Kevin Kolb | 13,715 | 12,964 | 751 | 2003 2004 2005 2006 Houston |
| 25 | Mason Rudolph | 13,646 | 13,618 | 28 | 2014 2015 2016 2017 Oklahoma State |
| 26 | Philip Rivers | 13,580 | 13,484 | 96 | 2000 2001 2002 2003 NC State |
| 27 | Aaron Murray | 13,562 | 13,166 | 396 | 2010 2011 2012 2013 Georgia |
| 28 | Jaxson Dart | 13,511 | 11,970 | 1,541 | 2021 USC ᛫ 2022 2023 2024 Ole Miss |
| 29 | Chase Daniel | 13,485 | 12,515 | 970 | 2005 2006 2007 2008 Missouri |
| 30 | Brett Rypien | 13,484 | 13,581 | -97 | 2015 2016 2017 2018 Boise State |

### Single season

| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Season |
| 1 | Joe Burrow | 6,039 | 5,671 | 368 | 2019 LSU |
| 2 | Bailey Zappe | 5,984 | 5,967 | 17 | 2021 Western Kentucky |
| 3 | B. J. Symons | 5,976 | 5,833 | 143 | 2003 Texas Tech |
| 4 | Colt Brennan | 5,915 | 5,549 | 366 | 2006 Hawaii |
| 5 | Case Keenum | 5,829 | 5,671 | 158 | 2009 Houston |
| 6 | Case Keenum | 5,666 | 5,631 | 35 | 2011 Houston |
| 7 | Graham Harrell | 5,614 | 5,705 | -91 | 2007 Texas Tech |
| 8 | Anthony Gordon | 5,559 | 5,579 | -20 | 2019 Washington State |
| 9 | Kyler Murray | 5,362 | 4,361 | 1,001 | 2018 Oklahoma |
| 10 | Patrick Mahomes | 5,312 | 5,052 | 260 | 2016 Texas Tech |
| 11 | Lamar Jackson | 5,261 | 3,660 | 1,601 | 2017 Louisville |
| 12 | Case Keenum | 5,241 | 5,020 | 221 | 2008 Houston |
| 13 | Marcus Mariota | 5,224 | 4,454 | 770 | 2014 Oregon |
| 14 | Deshaun Watson | 5,222 | 4,593 | 629 | 2016 Clemson |
| 15 | David Klingler | 5,221 | 5,140 | 81 | 1990 Houston |
| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Season |
| 16 | Deshaun Watson | 5,209 | 4,104 | 1,105 | 2015 Clemson |
| 17 | Derek Carr | 5,200 | 5,083 | 117 | 2013 Fresno State |
| 18 | Paul Smith | 5,184 | 5,065 | 119 | 2007 Tulsa |
| 19 | Jalen Hurts | 5,149 | 3,851 | 1,298 | 2019 Oklahoma |
| 20 | Bryant Moniz | 5,142 | 5,040 | 102 | 2010 Hawaii |
| 21 | Johnny Manziel | 5,116 | 3,706 | 1,410 | 2012 Texas A&M |
| 22 | Lamar Jackson | 5,114 | 3,543 | 1,571 | 2016 Louisville |
| 23 | Patrick Mahomes | 5,109 | 4,653 | 456 | 2016 Texas Tech |
| 24 | Matt Johnson | 5,105 | 4,946 | 159 | 2015 Bowling Green |
| 25 | Graham Harrell | 5,096 | 5,111 | -15 | 2008 Texas Tech |
| 26 | Ty Detmer | 5,022 | 5,188 | -106 | 1990 BYU |
| 27 | Drake Maye | 5,019 | 4,321 | 698 | 2022 North Carolina |
| 28 | Robert Griffin III | 4,992 | 4,293 | 699 | 2011 Baylor |
| 29 | Austin Reed | 4,970 | 4,746 | 224 | 2022 Western Kentucky |
| 30 | Jordan Lynch | 4,953 | 3,138 | 1,815 | 2012 Northern Illinois |

### Single game

| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Date / Team |
| 1 | Patrick Mahomes | 819 | 734 | 85 | Oct. 22, 2016 Texas Tech |
| 2 | Connor Halliday | 751 | 734 | 17 | Oct. 4, 2014 Washington State |
| 3 | David Klingler | 732 | 716 | 16 | Dec. 2, 1990 Houston |
| 4 | Matt Vogler | 696 | 690 | 6 | Nov. 3, 1990 TCU |
| 5 | Geno Smith | 687 | 656 | 31 | Sep. 29, 2012 West Virginia |
| 6 | B. J. Symons | 681 | 661 | 20 | Sep. 27, 2003 Texas Tech |
| 7 | Brian Lindgren | 657 | 637 | 20 | Oct. 6, 2001 Idaho |
| 8 | Dillon Gabriel | 650 | 601 | 49 | Oct. 17, 2020 UCF |
| 9 | Graham Harrell | 643 | 646 | -3 | Sep. 22, 2008 Texas Tech |
| 10 | Brett Smith | 640 | 498 | 142 | Nov. 23, 2013 Wyoming |
| 11 | Clayton Tune | 638 | 527 | 111 | Nov. 5, 2022 Houston |
| 12 | Garrett Gilbert | 635 | 538 | 97 | Oct. 26, 2013 SMU |
| 13 | Scott Mitchell | 625 | 631 | -6 | Oct. 15, 1988 Utah |
| 13 | David Klingler | 625 | 563 | 62 | Nov. 3, 1990 Houston |
| 13 | Patrick Mahomes | 625 | 598 | 27 | Nov. 29, 2014 Texas Tech |
| # | Player | Yards | Passing | Rushing | Date / Team |
| 16 | Zac Dysert | 624 | 516 | 108 | Sep. 29, 2012 Miami (OH) |
| 17 | B. J. Symons | 618 | 586 | 32 | Sep. 20, 2003 Texas Tech |
| 18 | Jimmy Klingler | 612 | 613 | -1 | Nov. 28, 1992 Houston |
| 19 | Lamar Jackson | 610 | 411 | 199 | Sep. 9, 2016 Louisville |
| 19 | Drew Anderson | 610 | 597 | 13 | Oct. 7, 2017 Buffalo |
| 21 | Jayden Daniels | 606 | 372 | 234 | Nov. 11, 2023 LSU |
| 22 | Quinton Flowers | 605 | 503 | 102 | Nov. 24, 2017 South Florida |
| 23 | Cody Hodges | 604 | 643 | -39 | Oct. 15, 2005 Texas Tech |
| 23 | Nick Mullens | 604 | 591 | 13 | Oct. 1, 2016 Southern Miss |
| 25 | Ty Detmer | 603 | 599 | 4 | Nov. 16, 1991 BYU |
| 26 | Alan Bowman | 602 | 605 | -3 | Sep. 15, 2018 Texas Tech |
| 27 | Troy Kopp | 601 | 564 | 37 | Oct. 20, 1990 Pacific |
| 27 | Chase Clement | 601 | 541 | 60 | Nov. 24, 2007 Rice |
| 29 | Virgil Carter | 599 | 513 | 86 | Nov. 5, 1966 BYU |
| 30 | John Walsh | 597 | 619 | -23 | Oct. 30, 1993 BYU |
| 30 | Daniel Meager | 597 | 601 | -4 | Sep. 7, 2007 North Texas |

## Touchdowns responsible for

In the 2024 season, Dillon Gabriel broke Keenum's total touchdowns record. The single-season record is shared by Burrow and Zappe, and Klingler holds the single game record with 11.
Similar to the yards list, every player in the career and single-season list is a quarterback. However, the single-game list does include two running backs, Howard Griffith and Jaret Patterson, who each had games with 8 rushing touchdowns.

### Career

| # | Player | TD | Pass | Rush | Rec | Seasons |
| 1 | Dillon Gabriel | 189 | 155 | 33 | 1 | 2019 2020 2021 UCF ᛫ 2022 2023 Oklahoma ᛫ 2024 Oregon |
| 2 | Case Keenum | 178 | 155 | 23 | | 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Houston |
| 3 | Sam Hartman | 154 | 134 | 20 | | 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Wake Forest ᛫ 2023 Notre Dame |
| 4 | Baker Mayfield | 153 | 131 | 21 | 1 | 2013 Texas Tech ᛫ 2015 2016 2017 Oklahoma |
| 5 | Bo Nix | 152 | 113 | 38 | 1 | 2019 2020 2021 Auburn ᛫ 2022 2023 Oregon |
| 6 | Dan LeFevour | 150 | 102 | 47 | 1 | 2006 2007 2008 2009 Central Michigan |
| 7 | J. T. Barrett | 147 | 104 | 43 | | 2014 2015 2016 2017 Ohio State |
| 8 | Colt Brennan | 146 | 131 | 15 | | 2005 2006 2007 Hawaii |
| 8 | Graham Harrell | 146 | 134 | 12 | | 2005 2006 2007 2008 Texas Tech |
| 8 | Kellen Moore | 146 | 142 | 3 | 1 | 2008 2009 2010 2011 Boise State |
| 8 | Rakeem Cato | 146 | 131 | 15 | | 2011 2012 2013 2014 Marshall |
| 12 | Tim Tebow | 145 | 88 | 57 | | 2006 2007 2008 2009 Florida |
| 13 | Colin Kaepernick | 142 | 82 | 59 | 1 | 2007 2008 2009 2010 Nevada |
| 14 | Aaron Murray | 137 | 121 | 16 | | 2010 2011 2012 2013 Georgia |
| 15 | Marcus Mariota | 136 | 105 | 29 | 2 | 2012 2013 2014 Oregon |
| # | Player | TD | Pass | Rush | Rec | Seasons |
| 16 | Ty Detmer | 135 | 121 | 14 | | 1988 1989 1990 1991 BYU |
| 17 | Russell Wilson | 133 | 109 | 23 | 1 | 2008 2009 2010 NC State ᛫ 2011 Wisconsin |
| 17 | Tajh Boyd | 133 | 107 | 26 | | 2010 2011 2012 2013 Clemson |
| 19 | Colt McCoy | 132 | 112 | 20 | | 2006 2007 2008 2009 Texas |
| 20 | Sam Ehlinger | 127 | 94 | 33 | | 2017 2018 2019 2020 Texas |
| 21 | Landry Jones | 126 | 123 | 3 | | 2009 2010 2011 2012 Oklahoma |
| 22 | Chase Clement | 125 | 99 | 25 | 1 | 2005 2006 2007 2008 Rice |
| 23 | Jalen Hurts | 124 | 80 | 43 | 1 | 2016 2017 2018 Alabama ᛫ 2019 Oklahoma |
| 23 | Jayden Daniels | 124 | 89 | 34 | 1 | 2019 2020 2021 Arizona State ᛫ 2022 2023 LSU |
| 25 | Timmy Chang | 123 | 117 | 6 | | 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Hawaii |
| 25 | Luke Falk | 123 | 119 | 4 | | 2014 2015 2016 2017 Washington State |
| 25 | Holton Ahlers | 123 | 97 | 25 | 1 | 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 East Carolina |
| 28 | Danny Wuerffel | 122 | 114 | 8 | | 1993 1994 1995 1996 Florida |
| 28 | Matt Barkley | 122 | 116 | 6 | | 2009 2010 2011 2012 USC |
| 30 | Frank Harris | 121 | 92 | 28 | 1 | 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 UTSA |

### Single season

| # | Player | TD | Pass | Rush | Rec | Season |
| 1 | Joe Burrow | 65 | 60 | 5 | | 2019 LSU |
| 1 | Bailey Zappe | 65 | 62 | 3 | | 2021 Western Kentucky |
| 3 | Colt Brennan | 63 | 58 | 5 | | 2006 Hawaii |
| 4 | Paul Smith | 60 | 47 | 13 | | 2007 Tulsa |
| 5 | Marcus Mariota | 58 | 42 | 15 | 1 | 2014 Oregon |
| 6 | B. J. Symons | 57 | 52 | 5 | | 2003 Texas Tech |
| 6 | Chase Clement | 57 | 44 | 12 | 1 | 2008 Rice |
| 8 | David Klingler | 55 | 54 | 1 | | 1990 Houston |
| 8 | Tim Tebow | 55 | 32 | 23 | | 2007 Florida |
| 8 | Sam Bradford | 55 | 50 | 5 | | 2008 Oklahoma |
| 11 | Dwayne Haskins | 54 | 50 | 4 | | 2018 Ohio State |
| 11 | Kyler Murray | 54 | 42 | 12 | | 2018 Oklahoma |
| 13 | Jim McMahon | 53 | 47 | 6 | | 1980 BYU |
| 13 | Patrick Mahomes | 53 | 41 | 12 | | 2016 Texas Tech |
| 13 | Jalen Hurts | 53 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 2019 Oklahoma |
| # | Player | TD | Pass | Rush | Rec | Season |
| 16 | Graham Harrell | 52 | 48 | 4 | | 2007 Texas Tech |
| 16 | Derek Carr | 52 | 50 | 2 | | 2013 Fresno State |
| 16 | Caleb Williams | 52 | 42 | 10 | | 2022 USC |
| 19 | Graham Harrell | 51 | 45 | 6 | | 2008 Texas Tech |
| 19 | Case Keenum | 51 | 44 | 7 | | 2008 Houston |
| 19 | Cam Newton | 51 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 2010 Auburn |
| 19 | Case Keenum | 51 | 48 | 3 | | 2011 Houston |
| 19 | Brandon Doughty | 51 | 49 | 2 | | 2014 Western Kentucky |
| 19 | Lamar Jackson | 51 | 30 | 21 | | 2016 Louisville |
| 19 | Justin Fields | 51 | 41 | 10 | | 2019 Ohio State |
| 19 | Bo Nix | 51 | 45 | 6 | | 2023 Oregon |
| 27 | Matt Johnson | 50 | 46 | 4 | | 2015 Bowling Green |
| 27 | Brandon Doughty | 50 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 2015 Western Kentucky |
| 27 | Deshaun Watson | 50 | 41 | 9 | | 2016 Clemson |
| 27 | D'Eriq King | 50 | 36 | 14 | | 2018 Houston |
| 27 | Sam Hartman | 50 | 39 | 11 | | 2021 Wake Forest |
| 27 | Bryce Young | 50 | 47 | 3 | | 2021 Alabama |
| 27 | Jayden Daniels | 50 | 40 | 10 | | 2023 LSU |

### Single game

Single Game :
| # | Player | TDs | P | R | Date | School |
| 1 | David Klingler | 11 | 11 | - | Nov. 17, 1990 | Houston |
| 2 | Tanner Mordecai | 10 | 9 | 1 | Nov. 5, 2022 | SMU |
| 3 | Dennis Shaw | 9 | 9 | - | Nov. 15, 1969 | San Diego State |
| 3 | David Klingler | 9 | 9 | - | Aug. 31, 1991 | Houston |
| 3 | Case Keenum | 9 | 9 | - | Oct. 27, 2011 | Houston |
| 3 | Anthony Gordon | 9 | 9 | - | Sep. 21, 2019 | Washington State |
| 7 | Jason Martin | 8 | 8 | - | Oct. 19, 1996 | Louisiana Tech |
| 7 | Pat Barnes | 8 | 8 | - | Nov. 2, 1996 | California |
| 7 | Howard Griffith | 8 | - | 8 | Sep. 22, 1990 | Illinois |
| 7 | Nick Rolovich | 8 | 8 | - | Dec. 8, 2001 | Hawaii |
| 7 | B. J. Symons | 8 | 8 | - | Oct. 4, 2003 | Texas Tech |
| 7 | Chase Clement | 8 | 6 | 2 | Nov. 3, 2007 | Rice |
| 7 | Giovanni Vizza | 8 | 8 | - | Nov. 10, 2007 | North Texas |
| 7 | Alex Carder | 8 | 7 | 1 | Nov. 8, 2011 | Western Michigan |
| 7 | Geno Smith | 8 | 8 | - | Sep. 29, 2012 | West Virginia |
| 7 | Tajh Boyd | 8 | 5 | 3 | Nov. 17, 2012 | Clemson |
| 7 | Keenan Reynolds | 8 | 1 | 7 | Nov. 22, 2013 | Navy |
| 7 | Brett Smith | 8 | 7 | 1 | Nov. 23, 2013 | Wyoming |
| 7 | Brandon Doughty | 8 | 8 | - | Nov. 28, 2014 | Western Kentucky |
| 7 | Lamar Jackson | 8 | 6 | 2 | Sep. 1, 2016 | Louisville |
| 7 | Jake Browning | 8 | 6 | 2 | Oct. 8, 2016 | Washington |
| 7 | Drew Anderson | 8 | 7 | 1 | Oct. 7, 2017 | Buffalo |
| 7 | Joe Burrow | 8 | 7 | 1 | Dec. 28, 2019 | LSU |
| 7 | Jaret Patterson | 8 | - | 8 | Nov. 28, 2020 | Buffalo |
| 7 | Clayton Tune | 8 | 7 | 1 | Nov. 5, 2022 | Houston |
| 7 | Dillon Gabriel | 8 | 5 | 3 | Nov. 11, 2023 | Oklahoma |
| 7 | Jayden Daniels | 8 | 6 | 2 | Nov. 18, 2023 | LSU |
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