Career Honors
• Honorable mention all-Southland Conference, 2014
• Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 15, 2014)
• Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 1, 2014)
Parker McKenzie in the ACU Record Book
• 3,084 yards in 2014 (Eighth in ACU single-season history)
• 236 completions in 2014 (Sixth in ACU single-season history)
• 3,054 total offensive yards (Eighth in ACU single-season history)
• Fourth straight ACU starting QB to throw for at least 3,000 yards in a season
• His 3,084 yards also represent the seventh season in the last 11 Wildcat campaigns in which an ACU quarterback has thrown for at least 3,000 yards.
• Sixth in ACU history in games with at least 250 passing yards with 10
• Ninth in ACU history in passing yards (5,587)
• Eighth in ACU history in completions (400)
• 10th in ACU history in attempts (615)
• Ninth in ACU history in touchdown passes (36)
After starting most of the Wildcats’ games in 2014 and 2015, McKenzie is listed as the team’s backup going into the 2016 season after a strong spring from redshirt freshman Dallas Sealey. McKenzie will still figure to get snaps in the Wildcats’ offense, but will get them from the backup spot to start the season.
2015 (Junior): McKenzie started eight games for the Wildcats and played in all 11 games, throwing for 1,855 yards and 14 touchdowns while completing 161 of 247 passes. Posted four games with at least 225 yards passing and had two 300-yard games to give him eight for his career. He threw for 316 yards and three touchdowns in an Oct. 10 loss at Lamar, and he had 330 yards and two touchdowns in the season-ending 40-36 loss at Northern Colorado. In each games in which he threw a touchdown pass, he threw multiple touchdowns: 3 vs. Houston Baptist on Sept. 19, 2 vs. Stephen F. Austin on Sept. 26, 2 at Central Arkansas on Oct. 3, 3 at Lamar on Oct. 10, 2 vs. Southeastern Louisiana on Nov. 14, and 2 at Northern Colorado on Nov. 21. Threw for 219 yards and those two TDs against Southeastern Louisiana, leading the Wildcats to a comeback win in the final 30 seconds of the game. He hit Monte Green-Avery with a 14-yard touchdown pass to cut the Lions’ lead to 17-14 with 12:56 to play, and then found Jamie Walker with a 1-yard TD pass on fourth-and-goal with 22 seconds to play to give the Wildcats a 21-17 win.
2014 (Sophomore): McKenzie earned the starting job in summer two-a-days in August and proved worthy of the assignment from the first snap of the season. On Wednesday, Aug. 27, against FBS member Georgia State at Georgia State and in front of a national TV audience watching on ESPNU, McKenzie completed 30 of 40 passes for 403 yards and four touchdowns as he almost led the Wildcats to a win over the Panthers. ACU fell to Georgia State, 38-37, but McKenzie proved himself worthy of the starting assignment. His numbers from the game – the attempts, completions, yards and touchdown passes – are the best numbers ever posted by an ACU quarterback in his first career start. The 403-yard effort was the second-best single-game passing game by a quarterback in the Southland Conference in 2014 and is tied for the 17th-best single-game performance by a quarterback in ACU history. The 403 yards also made McKenzie the 10th quarterback in ACU history to throw for at least 400 yards in a single game, joining Jim Reese, Mitchell Gale, John David Baker, Loyal Proffitt, Clint Longley, Jim Lindsey, John Frank, Billy Malone and John Mayes on the list. He earned Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week honors, the first Wildcat football player to earn that distinction since the program moved up to the FCS level and returned to the Southland Conference. He would earn that distinction again two weeks later when he completed 25 of 34 passes for 312 yards and two touchdowns as he helped rally the Wildcats from a 21-7 halftime deficit to a 38-35 win at Troy on Sept. 13. That win was ACU’s first win over an FBS-level opponent since a 1959 win at Texas-El Paso (known at the time as Texas Western). That 312-yard game was the first of five games the rest of the season that saw McKenzie throw for at least 300 yards: 312 at Troy, 329 at home in a 21-0 win over Incarnate Word (Sept. 20), 359 on the road in a 59-14 win over Houston Baptist (Sept. 27), 304 at home in a 55-14 win over Ave Maria (Oct. 11), and 352 in a 38-21 loss at Sam Houston State (Oct. 25). McKenzie was knocked around in the Sam Houston game and missed the Wildcats’ Nov. 1 win over Central Arkansas and the next week when he returned (Nov. 8) he threw three interceptions in a 34-10 home loss to Northwestern State. However, he bounced back in a big way as he and redshirt freshman De’Andre Brown (256 rushing yards) led the Wildcats to a big season-ending 37-35 win over playoff-bound Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches. McKenzie completed 19 of 29 passes (no interceptions) for 267 yards and one touchdown as ACU secured its ninth straight season with both at least six wins and at least a .500 record. In the game, McKenzie caught a 2-point conversion pass from Cade Stone that actually turned out to be the difference in the game. He finished his season among Southland Conference and FCS leaders in several categories. He led the league in completion percentage (64.7 percent) and was second in passing yards (3,084), passing yards per game (280.4), passing efficiency (150.6) and total offense per game (277.6 ypg), and was fourth in touchdown passes (22). He was ninth at the FCS level in yards per game, 12th in completion percentage, yards per attempt (8.44) and passing efficiency, 14th in passing yards, 19th in total offense per game, tied for 20th in touchdown passes, and 25th in yards per completions (13.1 ypc).
2013 (Redshirt freshman): Appeared in five games for the Wildcats as a backup to John David Baker. Completed 3 of 3 passes for 33 yards, including a long pass of 16 yards on Sept. 7 against McMurry. He also ran the ball four times for minus-4 yards.
2012 (Freshman): Redshirt.
High school: McKenzie is the first three-year starting quarterback in Smithson Valley HS history, leading the Rangers to a 24-7 record in 31 starts. Completed 320 of 538 passes in three seasons for 4,679 yards and 43 touchdowns while completing 59.4 percent of his passes. He set school records for career total yards (4,962) and career passing yards (4,679). He led the Rangers to back-to-back 10-2 records as both a junior and senior. He was an all-district performer in 2009, 2010 and 2010. He was also selected academic all-district in each of those seasons. He was an all-county first team quarterback in 2010 and 2011.
Personal: Son of Doug and Teri McKenzie. 2012 graduate of Smithson Valley High School. Born 09 March 1994.
