Florida's Will Grier, Treon Harris currently two of nation's best quarterbacks by stats

You know how Will Grier and Treon Harris managed to combine to go 30-for-37 with 381 passing yards and four touchdowns on Saturday? Yeah, that was pretty good.

Good enough, in fact, that it made Florida the only school nationally with two of the nation's top 20 quarterbacks via passer rating after Week 1, and the only program with two of the top 10 in ESPN's QBR.

Passer rating is the more traditional measurement of quarterback performance, and both Grier and Harris fare well there, with both players (Harris at 203.47, Grier at 203.02) just eclipsing the rare ¹ 200.00 mark.

Those numbers slot Harris in at No. 15 nationally, with Grier right behind him at No. 16.

It is, of course, amusing to note that the No. 1 player on that list is Jeff Driskel, and Driskel aerating Southern² — with the help of four touchdown passes of more than 20 yards, or just five fewer than he had in his entire Florida career — was one of this weekend's more pleasant surprises. And it's interesting to see Nick Stevens, recruited by Jim McElwain at Colorado State, up in the top 10.

But it's most remarkable, at least for our purposes, that Florida had not one but two incredible performances of quarterbackery in Week 1.

And the numbers for Grier and Harris look even better by ESPN's metric, which incorporates adjustments for opponent in its Total form and rates QBs on more than just the results of their throws.

Grier, who gets a big boost from his 38-yard run, ranks fourth in both metrics, while Harris is sixth in Raw QBR and eighth in Total QBR. Again, no other team has multiple top-10 performers.

I'd be negligent to not note here that I have qualms about both passer rating (which is significantly influence by yards per attempt) and QBR (which isn't nearly as transparent as I'd like, and has some dubious adjustments for context). And both metrics are based on results; neither sees process-related aspects of QB play, things like Harris scrambling to set up a throw on the run or underthrowing Brandon Powell on his first scoring toss, or Grier looking off a safety or exhibiting perfect ball placement on a touchdown pass to C'yontai Lewis.

But the fact remains that two different rating systems both think the world of what Grier and Harris did against New Mexico State — and one of them has some built-in adjustments for the "It was just New Mexico State" crowd.

And I find it particularly impressive that Grier notched his 200.00+ passer rating without topping 10.0 yards per attempt, a feat only USC's Cody Kessler, a preseason Heisman front-runner, was able to match. Tim Tebow, who owns college football's third-highest career passer rating, reached the 200.00 plateau 10 times, but only did it twice with under 10.0 YPA, and he threw four touchdowns in each of those games — and, also, didn't come off the bench in those contests, or have a quarterback competition to win.

Whatever you think of Grier and Harris, remember this: Even if it was against an overmatched opponent, for one night, at least, they were great.

Both of them.