Bryce Archie: QB · South Florida · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Bryce Archie
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The three seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Chad Staggs and Alex Golesh. On tape: 305 passing yards and 40 rushing yards against Tulsa, Week 13, 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
52.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.7% conversion-per-dropback — 43.5% 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
2 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (6.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | South Florida | 172 | 290 | 59.3% | 1,914 | 6.6 | 9 | 10 | 118.1 | 37 |
| 2023 | South Florida | 7 | 15 | 46.7% | 53 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 76.3 | -- |
| 2022 | Coastal Carolina | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | 9 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 43.9 | -- |
| Career | 180 | 309 | 58.3% | 1,976 | 6.4 | 9 | 10 | 115.1 | 37 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | South Florida | 68 | 137 | 2.0 | 2 | 35 |
| 2023 | South Florida | 9 | −5 | −0.6 | 0 | 12 |
| 2022 | Coastal Carolina | 3 | 18 | 6.0 | 0 | 11 |
| Career | 80 | 150 | 1.9 | 2 | 35 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-3vs Bethune-Cookman | 2/3 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 6.7 | 4.9 | |
| Wk 2 | L 16-42@ No. 4 Alabama | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 34.0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 15-50vs No. 8 Miami | 6/12 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 3.1 | 2.4 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-45@ Tulane | 4/10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 31.4 | |
| Wk 7 | L 3-21vs Memphis | 22/41 | 234 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | 10.1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-25vs UAB | 17/31 | 201 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 17.1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 44-21@ Florida Atlantic | 19/32 | 206 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | 67.3 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-28vs Navy | 26/43 | 282 | 1 | 2 | 6.6 | 17.2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 59-24@ Charlotte | 11/16 | 126 | 0 | 1 | 7.9 | 82.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 63-30vs Tulsa | 21/31 | 305 | 2 | 1 | 9.8 | 82.5 | Season-high 305 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 28-35@ Rice | 19/35 | 227 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 39.1 | |
 Bowl | W 41-39vs San José State | 24/35 | 235 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 34.7 | |
| Total | 172/290 | 1914 | 9 | 10 | 6.6 | — |
Week 10 · 2024
W 44-21
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 289 passing plays (169 completions) against the box score's 290 attempts (172 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.88163 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.8%135 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (135 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (163 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 59.3% completion on 290 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 34.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
+69
percentile points better on third down or later
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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 169 | 1.2 | 6.5 | 1.2 |
| Road5g | 120 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 94.5 | 0.2 | 4.4 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 224 | 1.3 | 7.3 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Alex Golesh
Pass share
47.4%
439 pass / 488 run
Plays / game
71.3
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
290 pass attempts and 68 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #132 at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Coastal Carolina and South Florida, 1,976 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Jamey Chadwell and Alex Golesh.
