Last confirmed: San José State, 2019. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′2″ · 205 lb · Mission Viejo, CA
Josh Love: QB · San José State · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Josh Love
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Josh Love has played for two head coaches in four seasons at San José State. A game that shows it: 465 passing yards and 3 passing TD against UNLV — Week 13, 2019.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
59.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.8% conversion-per-dropback — 34.5% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 19 inside-the-5 carries (15.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | San José State | 293 | 480 | 61.0% | 3,923 | 8.2 | 22 | 7 | 141.9 | 70 |
| 2018 | San José State | 162 | 289 | 56.1% | 1,963 | 6.8 | 14 | 9 | 122.9 | 29 |
| 2017 | San José State | 92 | 170 | 54.1% | 928 | 5.5 | 5 | 7 | 101.4 | 36 |
| 2016 | San José State | 31 | 60 | 51.7% | 392 | 6.5 | 2 | 5 | 100.9 | -- |
| Career | 578 | 999 | 57.9% | 7,206 | 7.2 | 43 | 28 | 127.0 | 52 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | San José State | 25 | −88 | −3.5 | 3 |
| 2018 | San José State | 30 | −93 | −3.1 | 0 |
| 2017 | San José State | 19 | −60 | −3.2 | 0 |
| 2016 | San José State | 14 | −41 | −2.9 | 0 |
| Career | 88 | −282 | −3.2 | 3 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-18vs Northern Colorado | 21/31 | 224 | 2 | 0 | 7.2 | 86.7 | |
| Wk 2 | L 16-34vs Tulsa | 16/30 | 189 | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | 62.8 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-24@ Arkansas | 32/49 | 402 | 2 | 1 | 8.2 | 73.5 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-41@ Air Force | 19/35 | 198 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 43.6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 32-21vs New Mexico | 24/36 | 405 | 2 | 0 | 11.3 | 76.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | L 38-41@ Nevada | 23/45 | 405 | 3 | 1 | 9.0 | 67.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-27vs San Diego State | 19/36 | 218 | 2 | 1 | 6.1 | 33.5 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-29@ Army | 20/31 | 314 | 3 | 0 | 10.1 | 87.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 42-52vs No. 21 Boise State | 29/52 | 438 | 2 | 0 | 8.4 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | L 40-42@ Hawai'i | 30/45 | 375 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | L 35-38@ UNLV | 37/56 | 465 | 3 | 4 | 8.3 | — | Season-high 465 yds · 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | W 17-16vs Fresno State | 23/34 | 290 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | — | |
| Total | 293/480 | 3923 | 22 | 7 | 8.2 | — |
Week 10 · 2019
L 42-52
vs Boise State
438 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT
With T. Walker — 9 rec · 193 yds · A. Galland — 38.8 yards per punt · 4 punts · 49 long
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
8.1033 of 205 QBsSack rate
2.4%15 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (15 of 205 QBs) and still 33 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.0% completion on 480 attempts · 56 deep completions averaging 33.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 13 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 294 | 1.5 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 360 | 2.2 | 8.3 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 304 | 1.7 | 8.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 350 | 2.0 | 8.3 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Brennan
Pass share
62.9%
497 pass / 293 run
Plays / game
65.8
12 games
Scheme: Pass-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
480 pass attempts and 25 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at San José State, 7,206 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Ron Caragher → Brent Brennan. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
