Arizona Wildcats quarterback Khalil Tate entered Saturday with only 86 yards coming on the ground, on just 10 carries, this season. Those numbers don't exactly set some sort of great qualifier or predictor of what would happen when Saturday was all said and done.
Khalil Tate, that guy we just wrote about barely running around this season, set the single-game FBS record for yards gained by a quarterback on the ground with — wait for it — 327 yards.
Let me repeat that again so you can allow it to wash over you like a cold shower: Khalil Tate, Arizona's gunslinger, a man not tasked with actually running the pigskin all that much, ran it around for 327 yards on Saturday.
Oh, and it also only took him 14 carries to do so.
Tate’s total breaks the record of 321 set by Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch back in November of 2013. That's the only sad face emoji on all of this, as the immortal Jordan Lynch now has his name wiped from the record books. Not so immortal now, are you, Jordan?
For the season, Tate is averaging 17.2 yards per carry. That seems pretty damn good. The national leader in that category, with at least 20 carries, entering play this weekend? Stanford’s Bryce Love at an equally ridiculous 11.1 yards per carry. That is also good — though, worth noting, he is an actual running back.
Article Continues BelowWhat does this all mean? Does Khalil Tate now become the next Michael Vick? Who cares? This is what happens when a video game makes it way to real life, though.
Anyway, here is a random goodbye fact from our good friends over at ESPN:
Khalil Tate (327 yards) and Phillip Lindsay (281 yards) set the FBS record for most combined rushing yards by opposing players at 608 pic.twitter.com/m8N4Xug64E
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 8, 2017
Goodbye.