Alan Bowman: QB · Oklahoma State · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Alan Bowman
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for four head coaches across seven seasons and three programs. On tape: 396 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Tulsa, Week 3, 2024.
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
43.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.9% conversion-per-dropback — 42.1% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The New York Times Nov 1
Sports Illustrated Oct 29
Oklahoma State University Athletics Oct 22
The Oklahoman Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | 204 | 340 | 60.0% | 2,442 | 7.2 | 17 | 12 | 129.8 | 42 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 304 | 501 | 60.7% | 3,460 | 6.9 | 15 | 14 | 123.0 | 47 |
| 2022 | Michigan | 6 | 7 | 85.7% | 60 | 8.6 | 1 | 0 | 204.9 | -- |
| 2021 | Michigan | 2 | 4 | 50.0% | 9 | 2.2 | 0 | 1 | 18.9 | -- |
| 2020 | Texas Tech | 148 | 229 | 64.6% | 1,584 | 6.9 | 10 | 7 | 131.0 | 44 |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | 101 | 154 | 65.6% | 1,020 | 6.6 | 6 | 3 | 130.2 | 34 |
| 2018 | Texas Tech | 227 | 327 | 69.4% | 2,638 | 8.1 | 17 | 7 | 150.1 | 70 |
| Career | 992 | 1,562 | 63.5% | 11,213 | 7.2 | 66 | 44 | 132.1 | 49 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | 24 | −38 | −1.6 | 0 | 12 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 26 | 24 | 0.9 | 2 | 13 |
| 2022 | Michigan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Michigan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Texas Tech | 10 | 6 | 0.6 | 0 | 9 |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | 7 | 14 | 2.0 | 1 | 10 |
| 2018 | Texas Tech | 30 | −29 | −1.0 | 1 | 12 |
| Career | 97 | −23 | −0.2 | 4 | 13 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 44-20vs South Dakota State | 25/34 | 267 | 3 | 0 | 7.9 | 82.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 39-31vs Arkansas | 27/48 | 326 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 64.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-10@ Tulsa | 24/31 | 396 | 5 | 1 | 12.8 | 96.8 | Season-high 396 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 19-22vs No. 12 Utah | 16/33 | 206 | 2 | 2 | 6.2 | 53.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 20-42@ No. 23 Kansas State | 26/50 | 364 | 1 | 2 | 7.3 | 61.7 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-38vs West Virginia | 10/19 | 116 | 1 | 2 | 6.1 | 12.6 | |
| Wk 8 | L 35-38@ No. 13 BYU | 11/19 | 85 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 69.6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 28-38@ Baylor | 28/42 | 359 | 1 | 1 | 8.5 | 75.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-42vs Arizona State | 17/30 | 175 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 54.8 | |
| Wk 11 | L 13-38@ TCU | 19/29 | 141 | 1 | 1 | 4.9 | 49.3 | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-52@ No. 23 Colorado | 1/5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 2.1 | |
| Total | 204/340 | 2442 | 17 | 12 | 7.2 | — |
Week 1 · 2024
W 44-20
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 314 passing plays (181 completions) against the box score's 340 attempts (204 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.30104 of 205 QBsSack rate
2.0%11 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (11 of 205), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (104 of 205).
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 60.0% completion on 340 attempts · 27 deep completions averaging 29.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 58 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
2024 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 218 | 1.6 | 6.6 | 1.2 |
| Road6g | 225 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 279 | 2.2 | 7.9 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 153 | 0.8 | 5.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Gundy
Pass share
56.2%
450 pass / 350 run
Plays / game
66.7
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
340 pass attempts, 24 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #57 at the position.
How it ended
7 seasons, at Texas Tech, Michigan and Oklahoma State, 11,213 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Played for three programs.
The snaps went the other way.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2024
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Kliff Kingsbury, Matt Wells, Jim Harbaugh and Mike Gundy.
