Sports history is a weird concept, especially in this day of instant analysis, 24/7 news cycles and nonstop belly button-gazing about everything from the how the 1894 Yale Bulldogs would stack up against the 2025 Indiana Hoosiers to Todd Golden’s place in the pantheon of Florida basketball coaches to Kirk Herbstreit’s latest Golden Retriever.
History so often requires context, and context is impossible when the subject of judgment happened about 2.8 seconds ago. History requires time for things to settle down, an allowance for a higher-level observance of the subject than what can gauge in an instant.
So, how will history remember Carson Beck?
You remember Beck, right? The former can’t-miss NFL first-rounder who finished his college career having thrown for a bazillion yards, a zillion touchdowns and only lost 6 games as a college starter? The quarterback who anchored 2 almost-great Georgia teams and then took Miami to within spitting distance of a national championship?
To many, if not most, in Athens, Beck is looked upon with the same smidge of disdain you might consider your old Uncle George – a lovable family member, sure, but still gets whispered about when he isn’t around for Thanksgiving dinner.
Why do Georgia fans disdain Beck, exactly? After all, he turned in a stellar 24-3 record as a starter over the 2023 and 2024 seasons – with losses only to Alabama in the 2023 SEC Championship Game, another loss to the Crimson Tide midway through the 2024 season and setback against Ole Miss in that same campaign.
Along the way, Beck passed for 7,426 yards and 52 touchdowns against 18 interceptions – all the while torching just about every SEC defense he came across. Beck entered the 2024 Georgia season as a potential first-round NFL Draft pick but struggled compared to his 2023 season by throwing 12 picks (twice as many as 2023) and seeing his completion percentage drop from 72.4% to 64.7%.
Beck’s fortunes took a further wrong turn in the 2024 SEC title game against Texas, when he injured the elbow in his right throwing arm – an injury that required surgery and months of rehabilitation. Instead of trying his luck anyway in the draft, or even sticking it out 1 more season in Athens, Beck instead was lured to Miami via a reported $4 million NIL deal for one final ride with the Hurricanes.
Beck’s senior season in South Florida was almost as good as the sophomore season that set him up for speculative NFL greatness. He generated a career-best 338 completions, a 72.4% completion rate and 3,813 passing yards. His 30 passing touchdowns as a Hurricane was also a single-season high, though there were once again 12 interceptions that added jut a bit of tarnish on what was otherwise a sparkling season.
Ah yes, interceptions. Perhaps that is where we are missing the bigger picture with Carson Beck. Georgia fans took a bit of tongue-in-cheek pride in predicting the final moments of Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game – streaming to social media to guess that Beck would uncork a game-deciding interception on Miami’s game-deciding drive.
How did they know? Well, simply put, Beck has done that a bunch. In fact, of Beck’s 6 losses as a starter, a startling 4 occurred with him throwing an interception on his team’s final offensive play.
Beck’s first game-sealing interception came in 2024 in Tuscaloosa, as Alabama’s Zabien Brown stepped in front of a Beck pass late in the fourth quarter to lock up a 41-34 Georgia loss. This season, Beck was picked off 4 times by Louisville for Miami’s first loss – including a game-sealing interception by the Cardinals with 32 seconds remaining to seal a 24-21 loss. Three weeks later, Beck was picked off by SMU’s Ahmaad Moses in the first overtime session to then set up the Mustangs to deliver a walk-off score for a 26-20 victory.
That little stat nugget is both damning and came back to haunt Beck again in his final collegiate game – as he navigated Miami to the Indiana 47 with 51 seconds to play trailing 27-21, only to throw short into double coverage and straight into the hands of Hoosiers defensive back Jamari Sharpe near the goal line.
Thus, the final glimpses of Beck as a college football player felt all too familiar: a talented quarterback with a lightning bolt of a surgically repaired right arm trudging off the field after yet another game-deciding miscue.
How will history remember Carson Beck?
Will it look more kindly upon Beck in the coming years both in Athens and Coral Gables? Will the gauzy haze make those game-losing moments fade away in favor of the bazillion yards and the zillion touchdowns?
Or will both Georgia fans and the Miami faithful be forever scarred by the awful “what if?” sensation that comes with Beck delivering their teams so close to greatness without being able to hold on?
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