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Indiana, WKU and others name starting quarterbacks

Mike White transferred from South Florida to Western Kentucky (Getty Images).
Mike White transferred from South Florida to Western Kentucky (Getty Images).

With the college football season a week away – unless you’re Cal and Hawaii – teams are running out of time to name starting quarterbacks. And numerous teams made their starters known on Friday.

• Indiana said junior-college transfer Richard Lagow would start the team’s season-opening game vs. Florida International on Sep. 1. Lagow beat out Zander Diamont and Danny Cameron for the starting gig. Both Cameron and Diamont are listed as the team’s No. 2 QB. Lagow wears No. 21, which will take some getting used to. Not too many players start at quarterback while wearing No. 20 or greater.

Diamont threw 31 passes in 2015 while Cameron threw 16 as Nate Sudfield was the team’s primary quarterback.

• Western Kentucky named South Florida transfer Mike White its starter. White succeeds Brandon Doughty, who was a senior in 2015. White transferred from South Florida after the 2014 season. He spent time as the team’s starter in both 2013 and 2014 and had a completion percentage of 51.5 percent in those two seasons. That percentage will have to be much higher if WKU wants to continue the success it had with Doughty at QB.

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• Oregon named FCS tranfer Dakota Prukop as the opening day starter. Given Prukop’s production at Montana State, it would have been incredibly surprising if Jeff Locke had won the starting job.

• Justin Holman will start at QB for Central Florida. Holman, who threw the majority of passes for the team in 2015, beat out Boise State transfer Nick Patti. Holman was 127-250 passing for 1,379 yards, seven touchdowns and 14 interceptions last season as UCF failed to win a game.

• Tulane said redshirt freshman Glen Cuiellette would start against Wake Forest in Week 1. Cuiellette beat out Johnathan Brantley and Darius Bradwell for the role, though new coach Willie Fritz said two quarterbacks would play. According to the Advocate, he declined to name who the second quarterback would be. Fritz came to Tulane from Georgia Southern and Bradwell had previously committed to GSU.

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