Senior quarterback for Ole Miss. 2023: 278 passing yards, 3 TD, 0 INT.
6′1″ · 210 lb · Denton, TX
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
DUAL recruit
No. 171 nationally · Signed with Oklahoma State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Ole Miss. 2023: 278 passing yards, 3 TD, 0 INT.
Spencer Sanders
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Across five seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Mike Gundy and Lane Kiffin. All-Big 12 in 2022 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. The receipt: 134 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Mercer — Week 1, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Ole Miss, 9,831 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2021) — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2021)
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Matt Luke → Lane Kiffin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: interceptions (100th percentile). Strength: yards / att (97th percentile). Concern: pass yards (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 52.2 | 0.8 | 11.9 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 23.0 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 35.5 | 0.5 | 5.9 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 45.3 | 0.3 | 11.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pete Golding
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ole Miss | 19 | 29 | 65.5% | 278 | 9.6 | 3 | 0 | 180.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma State | 212 | 368 | 57.6% | 2,642 | 7.2 | 17 | 9 | 128.3 | 51 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Oklahoma State | 243 | 391 | 62.1% | 2,839 | 7.3 | 20 | 12 | 133.9 | 54 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Oklahoma State | 155 | 246 | 63.0% | 2,007 | 8.2 | 14 | 8 | 143.8 | 58 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Oklahoma State | 155 | 247 | 62.8% | 2,065 | 8.4 | 16 | 11 | 145.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 784 | 1,281 | 61.2% | 9,831 | 7.7 | 70 | 40 | 137.5 | 54 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ole Miss | 11 | 45 | 4.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma State | 107 | 391 | 3.7 | 8 | -- |
| 2021 | Oklahoma State | 146 | 668 | 4.6 | 6 | -- |
| 2020 | Oklahoma State | 100 | 273 | 2.7 | 2 | -- |
| 2019 | Oklahoma State | 139 | 628 | 4.5 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 503 | 2,005 | 4.0 | 18 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 73-7vs Mercer | 8/14 | 134 | 2 | 0 | 9.6 | 52.0 | Season-high 134 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 37-20@ Tulane | 1/1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 73.3 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-23vs Georgia Tech | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-24@ Alabama | 1/1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 28.6 | |
| Wk 9 | W 33-7vs Vanderbilt | 1/1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 7.5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-52@ Georgia | 4/7 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 8.7 | 57.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-3vs UL Monroe | 4/5 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 12.2 | 75.1 | |
| Total | 19/29 | 278 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | 49.1 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 35 inside-the-5 carries (5.7%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Braxton Burmeister’s 2021 season.
Matches Braxton on
Differs from Braxton on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to CJ Ogbonna's senior season at Buffalo (2024).
Matches CJ on
Differs from CJ on
Player DNA
Final Heisman position · 2023
Spencer Sanders finished 75th in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.