Playoff QBs include a hometown recruit, a prep title rematch and some 1-year hired guns WSOC TV [Video]

Kevin Jennings wasn’t even the player that Rhett Lashlee was going to watch when he went to his first Texas high school playoff game a week after becoming SMU’s coach.

Three years later, Jennings is the only quarterback starting for his hometown team in the debut of the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. He is one six QB starters still at the schools where they began their college careers, including Clemson’s Cade Klubnik playing in his hometown at Texas in their first-round game Saturday.

Of the six transfers, four are in what will be the only season with their current team. Kurtis Rourke with surprising Indiana or Riley Leonard of Notre Dame will play his final game Friday night in the playoff opener matching one-year hired guns.

Atlantic Coast Conference newcomer SMU plays Saturday at Penn State, where Drew Allar is the second-year starter and has already announced that he will be backnext season. That is …