Grading the top 25 college football quarterbacks entering November

What a difference a couple of months can make. At the start of the 2026 college football season, when FanSided's own Nick Villano set out to rank the 25 best quarterbacks in the country , names like Keelon Russell and Kamario Taylor were nowhere to be found, still weeks away from establishing themselves as current and future stars. And when our Cody Williams handed out some midseason grades for those same 25 QBs at the start of October, he was unsure about Oklahoma State's Drew Mestemaker, while the stocks of guys like LSU's Sam Leavitt and South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers…