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20 college football records that will never be broken

By Nathaniel Reeves

7 Nov 1998: Head coach Bobby Bowden of the Florida State Seminoles looks on as players celebrate during the game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Doak Campell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles defeated the Cavaliers 45-14. Mandatory Credit: Scott Halleran /Allsport
7 Nov 1998: Head coach Bobby Bowden of the Florida State Seminoles looks on as players celebrate during the game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Doak Campell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles defeated the Cavaliers 45-14. Mandatory Credit: Scott Halleran /Allsport /
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19 Sep 1993: Quarterback David Klingler of the Cincinnati Bengals looks to pass the ball as a Pittsburgh Steelers player rushes him during a game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers won the game, 34-7.
19 Sep 1993: Quarterback David Klingler of the Cincinnati Bengals looks to pass the ball as a Pittsburgh Steelers player rushes him during a game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers won the game, 34-7. /

12. Individual passing touchdowns in one game, David Klingler, 11

Fifteen years after Davis brought the system to college football, the run and shoot offense continued to shatter records thanks to Klingler and the Houston Cougars.

A native of Houston, Klingler attended Stratford High School in his hometown before joining the Cougars ahead of the 1988 season. Head coach Jack Pardee had the Houston offense rolling as Klingler sat on the bench his first two years in college, as quarterback Andre Ware took home the 1989 Heisman Trophy.

With Ware off to the next level and Pardee set to try his hand at the NFL with the Oilers, Klingler finally got  a chance to start in 1990 under former offensive coordinator John Jenkins, and made the most of his opportunity. Klingler threw for 5,140 yards and a then-NCAA record 54 touchdowns to help Houston to a 10-1 campaign, one of the best in program history.

The most impressive individual performance of that season was easily an 11-touchdown outing in an 84-21 destruction of Eastern Washington late in the year, one of Klingler’s few all-time records that has held up. Future run and shoot signal callers like Timmy Chang and Colt Brennan would put up more prolific career numbers, but neither had more than even six touchdowns in a single game.

Like Ware before him, Klingler was selected in the top 10 of the NFL draft but quickly busted out of the league with a 16:22 TD:INT ratio across seven seasons with three different teams.

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