NEW ORLEANS (November 17, 2025) – The Manning Award, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, has named eight quarterbacks as its "Stars of the Week." College football fans can follow the Manning Award on social media (@ManningAward) to vote for what they think was the best performance from this past weekend. When voting closes on Wednesday at 9 a.m. (Central), the top vote-getter will be announced as the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week.
 
Voting will be live at approximately 11 a.m. central.
 
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in 2004 to honor the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates' bowl performances in its balloting. Since the Manning Award started recognizing Stars of the Week in 2011, 607 different quarterbacks from 138 schools have been recognized. Sixty-five players have been honored so far in 2025.

This week's eight Manning Award Stars of the Week are:
 
Jacob Clark, Missouri State (30-of-39, 330 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INT, QBR: 76.8)
Clark, who connected on a season-best four touchdown passes while setting the school record with 30 completions, led two long fourth-quarter drives, capping both with TD strikes, to lift the Bears to a 38-24 CUSA win over UTEP.
 
Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, Marshall (22-of-27, 418 total yards, 3 TDs, 0 INT, QBR: 78.6)
Del Rio-Wilson, who was playing in his hometown of Atlanta, passed for 321 yards and three touchdowns while adding 97 rushing yards to lead the Thundering Herd to a 30-18 Sun Belt win over Georgia State on the road.
 
Dru DeShields, Kent State (17-of-25, 317 yards, 5 TDs, 0 INT, QBR: 72.3)
DeShields, who connected on an 89-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter, delivered a 25-yard TD strike on the first play of overtime for his career-best fifth TD of the night to lift the Golden Flashes to a 42-35 win over Akron in MAC play.
 
Katin Houser, East Carolina (23-of-34, 332 yards, 2 TDs), QBR: 75.1)
Houser, who posted his sixth career 300-yard game, completed five straight passes for 70 yards, including a 31-yard touchdown pass with 1:08 remaining, on the game-winning touchdown drive to lift the Pirates to a critical American victory, 31-27 over Memphis.
 
Fernando Mendoza, Indiana (22-of-24, 301 total yards, 4 TDs, 0 INT, QBR: 91.5)
Mendoza, who connected on three of his four touchdown passes in the second half, set the school record with his 30th TD pass of the season and led the Hoosiers to a 31-7 Big Ten win over Wisconsin for their first 11-0 start in school history.
 
Marcel Reed, Texas A&M (22-of-39, 452 total yards, 3 TDs, 2 INT, QBR: 79.8)
Reed threw for a career-best 439 yards and led the Aggies to the largest comeback in school history as they erased a 30-3 halftime deficit to post a 31-30 SEC win over South Carolina to remain undefeated.
 
Gunner Stockton, Georgia (24-of-29, 258 total yards, 5 TDs, 1 INT, QBR: 94.4)
Stockton, who matched his career-best with four touchdowns and ran for another, led the Bulldogs to 21 fourth-quarter points as they pulled away for a critical 35-10 SEC victory over No. 10 Texas.
 
Rodney Tisdale Jr., Western Kentucky (29-of-41, 381 total yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT, QBR: 72.4)
Tisdale, who passed for a career-high 371 yards, directed a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown drives to lead the Hilltoppers to 642 yards of total offense as they pulled away from Middle Tennessee for a 42-26 CUSA victory.
 
The Manning Award selected 27 quarterbacks for its Watch List in the preseason and added an additional 22 quarterbacks on October 23. Finalists will be selected in early December and the winner is scheduled to be announced following the College Football Playoff National Championship.
 
In its first 21 years, the Manning Award has recognized the top names in college football. It has honored quarterbacks from 15 different schools and from four different conferences. The Southeastern Conference (Jayden Daniels, Stetson Bennett, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Mac Jones, Johnny Manziel, Cam Newton, JaMarcus Russell and Tim Tebow) leads the way with nine Manning Award honorees, while the Big 12 Conference (Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Vince Young, Colt McCoy and Robert Griffin III) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (Cam Ward, Deshaun Watson twice, Matt Ryan and Jameis Winston) have each had five winners.

All the Manning Award winners follow in the footsteps of the Mannings themselves. In college, Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning combined for over 25,000 passing yards and 201 touchdowns while playing in 10 bowl games and earning four bowl MVP awards. Archie was the No. 2 pick in the NFL Draft, while both Peyton and Eli were selected No. 1 overall.