Recently, ESPN ranked the top 75 QBs of the 21st century. Unsurprisingly, many of the names featured in that list were QBs that played for schools in the Pac-12. Since its inception, the Pac-12 — and both the Pac-10 and Pac-8 before that — has demonstrated a focus on high-quality passing offense, which naturally attracts quality QBs.
Today, I won’t be ranking QBs. Instead, I’ll be ranking schools. I’ll be ranking schools based on every QB throughout their history, to see which school has the greatest history of QBs in the Pac-12.
To do this, I examined a lot of quarterbacks — statistically speaking and otherwise. For the sake of brevity, many of the QBs I examined to determine the rankings aren’t included, but each school’s best and most iconic QBs are included in each section.
Some of the main criteria I considered were career yards and touchdowns (passing as well rushing for the dual-threat QBs), Bowl victories, NFL success, and individual accolades.
There have been a lot of great quarterbacks to come through the Pac-12 over the past several decades, but a few schools have been home to some of the best. Here are my final rankings of the best QB schools in conference history: