Bailey Michael Zappe is an American football quarterback for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. He previously played for the Houston Baptist Huskies.
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| SPLITS | CMP | ATT | CMP% | YDS | AVG | TD | INT | LNG | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This Game | 33 | 47 | 70.2 | 422 | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 75 | 187.8 |
| NonConf | 133 | 183 | 72.7 | 1,712 | 9.4 | 16 | 2 | 73 | 177.9 |
| Dec | 36 | 59 | 61.0 | 577 | 9.8 | 4 | 2 | 60 | 158.8 |
| Away | 244 | 356 | 68.5 | 3,089 | 8.7 | 27 | 5 | 74 | 163.6 |
That was, by far, the most among FBS quarterbacks on the year, including 13 more touchdowns than Alabama quarterback and 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young.
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So after a stellar performance in the Hilltoppers’ season finale, Zappe now owns the FBS record for most passing touchdowns ever in a single season, as well as the record for most passing yards in a season.
Zappe finished the season with 5,977 yards and 62 touchdowns for the Hilltoppers (9-5). He topped the previous FBS marks of 5,833 yards set by Texas Tech’s B.J. Symons in 2003 and 60 touchdowns set by LSU’s Joe Burrow in the Tigers’ run to the national championship in the 2019 season.
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Actually, Michael Zappe did have someone in mind — a young guy at Texas Tech, the son of the school’s legendary track coach, who had spent the past couple years in an off-field role working with Davis Webb, Patrick Mahomes and Kliff Kingsbury.
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With Kittley calling the plays, Bailey Zappe would go on to become one of the most prolific passers in college football history — just another in a remarkable run of small coincidences, and seemingly incidental twists of fate that converged to become one of 2021’s best college football stories.
On Saturday, Zappe, who had just one Division I offer coming out of high school, will lead Western Kentucky against Appalachian State in the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl (11 a.m., ESPN/ESPN App), needing just four TD throws to match the all-time single-season FBS record.
