2023 Topps Bowman University Best Football Checklist

2023 Topps Bowman University Best Football is the all-Chrome, college-focused high-end release in the Bowman University line, released January 5, 2024. Its 100-card base set of NIL college players comes with Refractor parallels in hobby boxes and Geometric parallels in Breaker's Delight boxes, and hobby boxes carry four autographs.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 100 cards with Refractor, Speckle, Blue /150, Pink Lava /100, Green Mini-Diamond /99, Yellow /75, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /10 and Red Lava /5 parallels down to SuperFractor 1/1, plus Gold, Orange, Teal, Red and White Geometric parallels in Breaker's Delight
• Inserts: Elements of the Game, Gunslingers and Bandits Die Cuts, Bowman Masterpieces, Studious Stars and Signs of the Times, plus Shock and Awe, Lets Go and Mirror Image Fusion with SuperFractor 1/1 parallels only
• Autographs: 97 Best of 2023 Autographs with printing plates, signed versions of Elements of the Game, Gunslingers and Bandits and Bowman Masterpieces (numbered /75), Dual Autographs /25 and Triple Autographs /10
• Relic autographs: 25 Prospect Jumbo Relic Autographs with Honor Roll /49 and Valedictorian 1/1 parallels

Key prospects

Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Michael Penix Jr., Bo Nix, JJ McCarthy and Marvin Harrison Jr. lead the base and autograph lists, with Brock Bowers, Travis Hunter, Shedeur Sanders and Quinshon Judkins among the other signers.

Grading considerations

Caleb Williams and Drake Maye autographs and low-numbered Geometric parallels are among the cards collectors commonly consider for grading. Gunslingers and Bandits die-cuts have fragile edges, and jumbo relic cards may need a larger holder. See our grading scale.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2023 Bowman University Best Football checklist (PDF)

Card lists come from the Topps checklist. A few spellings in it are corrected to match the same players elsewhere in the checklist (Kendall Milton, Emmett Morehead, Jovantae Barnes), and Signs of the Times, Mirror Image Fusion, Dual and Triple Autographs are listed one row per card with all players named. Parallels and print runs come from secondary checklists, as the Topps checklist does not list them.