Wild NFL-history crossover: Drake Maye could become the 6th Super Bowl-winning QB from a presidential alma mater
A Patriots win over the Seahawks would make Maye the youngest QB to win a Super Bowl and put UNC in rare company.
Drake Maye could make history in Super Bowl LX, which will see his New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on February 8.
Drake Maye one win from Super Bowl record
Should the Patriots win, Maye would become the youngest starting quarterback ever to get his hands on the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The current record holder is Ben Roethlisberger, who was 23 years and 340 days old when he won the first of his two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers in February 2006. Maye will be just 23 years and 162 days old on the day of Super Bowl LX.
While the young QB is just one win away from writing his name into the NFL history books, it has also emerged, thanks to College Sports Wire, that he is on the verge of enrolling his alma mater in an exclusive club thanks to a fascinating NFL and U.S. history crossover.
Presidents and Super Bowls
If New England defeats Seattle, the University of North Carolina would become the sixth school in history to have produced both a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and a president of the United States, joining Delaware, Miami (Ohio), Michigan, Stanford and the United States Naval Academy.
This is how it breaks down:
| University | Super Bowl-winning QB | U.S. President |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | Joe Flacco (2013) | Joe Biden (2021-2025) |
| Miami (OH) | Ben Roethlisberger (2006, 2009) | William Henry Harrison (1841) |
| Michigan | Tom Brady (2002, 2004, 2005, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020) | Gerald Ford (1974-1977) |
| Stanford | John Elway (1998, 1999), Jim Plunkett (1981, 1984) | Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) |
| USNA | Roger Staubach (1972, 1978) | Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) |
Navy is the only one of the five in which one alumnus won a Super Bowl while another was the sitting president. Roger Staubach triumphed at Super Bowl XII just under a year after Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president.
Like Maye, Democrat James K. Polk, who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, attended the University of North Carolina before embarking on a career in politics.
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