His name is Jake Smith, and you don’t know him.
He’s a freshman at the Air Force Academy, a backup quarterback who played in one game this past season—the opener against Colgate—and ran the ball one time for 11 yards. Then he redshirted. On the day I talked to him, he was commuting from home in Roswell, Ga., to Colorado Springs, Colo., to start his second semester at the Academy.
You don’t know him, but he has a bragging right nobody else in Gridworld can currently match. He did what Tua Tagovailoa, Justin Fields, Ian Book and two-dozen other college quarterbacks have failed to do: he beat Trevor Lawrence.