Connor Bazelak: QB · Bowling Green · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Connor Bazelak
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for four head coaches at three programs in six seasons: Barry Odom, Eli Drinkwitz, Tom Allen and Scot Loeffler. Another came in 2024: All-MAC. On tape: 390 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Arkansas State, Bowl, 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
55.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.1% conversion-per-dropback — 53.8% 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 17 inside-the-5 carries (17.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bowling Green | 269 | 402 | 66.9% | 3,044 | 7.6 | 18 | 5 | 142.8 | 50 |
| 2023 | Bowling Green | 168 | 277 | 60.6% | 1,935 | 7.0 | 12 | 7 | 128.6 | 44 |
| 2022 | Indiana | 234 | 425 | 55.1% | 2,312 | 5.4 | 13 | 10 | 106.1 | 31 |
| 2021 | Missouri | 246 | 377 | 65.3% | 2,548 | 6.8 | 16 | 11 | 130.2 | 55 |
| 2020 | Missouri | 218 | 324 | 67.3% | 2,366 | 7.3 | 7 | 6 | 132.1 | 44 |
| 2019 | Missouri | 15 | 21 | 71.4% | 144 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 129.0 | -- |
| Career | 1,150 | 1,826 | 63.0% | 12,349 | 6.8 | 66 | 39 | 127.4 | 44 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bowling Green | 48 | −91 | −1.9 | 2 | 19 |
| 2023 | Bowling Green | 44 | −82 | −1.9 | 2 | 17 |
| 2022 | Indiana | 47 | −160 | −3.4 | 1 | 12 |
| 2021 | Missouri | 33 | −23 | −0.7 | 0 | 12 |
| 2020 | Missouri | 44 | 20 | 0.5 | 2 | 14 |
| 2019 | Missouri | 7 | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | 7 |
| Career | 223 | −334 | −1.5 | 7 | 19 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-17vs Fordham | 15/22 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 7.6 | 82.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 27-34@ No. 8 Penn State | 25/39 | 254 | 2 | 2 | 6.5 | 80.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-26@ No. 25 Texas A&M | 20/36 | 250 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 73.9 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-30vs Old Dominion | 27/36 | 303 | 2 | 1 | 8.4 | 66.3 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-20@ Akron | 24/30 | 268 | 0 | 0 | 8.9 | 61.4 | |
| Wk 7 | L 7-17vs Northern Illinois | 8/14 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | 18.2 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-6vs Kent State | 23/27 | 313 | 2 | 0 | 11.6 | 80.0 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | W 41-26@ Toledo | 17/27 | 171 | 2 | 0 | 6.3 | 65.6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 23-13@ Central Michigan | 19/30 | 207 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 44.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-13vs Western Michigan | 15/22 | 176 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 63.6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-13@ Ball State | 18/29 | 255 | 2 | 0 | 8.8 | 49.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 14 | L 12-28vs Miami (OH) | 26/41 | 201 | 0 | 1 | 4.9 | 12.8 | |
 Bowl | L 31-38vs Arkansas State | 32/49 | 390 | 3 | 0 | 8.0 | 55.5 | |
| Total | 269/402 | 3044 | 18 | 5 | 7.6 | — |
Bowl · 2024
L 31-38
vs Arkansas State · neutral site
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 398 passing plays (263 completions) against the box score's 402 attempts (269 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.0470 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.9%105 of 205 QBsSacked on 5.9% of dropbacks (105 of 205) — and still 70 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 66.9% completion on 402 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 25 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 208 | 1.2 | 7.8 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 234 | 1.3 | 7.4 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 246 | 1.3 | 7.5 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 220 | 1.5 | 7.8 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scot Loeffler
Pass share
50.4%
418 pass / 411 run
Plays / game
63.8
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #81 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Missouri, Indiana and Bowling Green, 12,349 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC
All-MAC mention (2024)
Weekly recognition
3 weekly honors (2020)
SEC Freshman Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Barry Odom, Eli Drinkwitz, Tom Allen and Scot Loeffler.
