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Pac-12 can. Washington (Moon 5, Brunell 31, Chandler 46), Stanford (Elway 4, Brodie 32) & USC (Palmer 40) are in the top 5 (with Notre Dame & Purdue) of schools with the most NFL passing yards from their alums. Oregon (Fouts 11) & UCLA (Aikman 27) are in the top 10, and California and Arizona State (Plummer 42) are in the top 20. Washington State produced a top 10 passer in Bledsoe (10).
* - players listed = top 50 all-time NFL passers & the number following name is their rank in all-time NFL passing yards.
# of top 50 NFL passers by conference:
Pac-12 - 10 (Elway 4, Moon 5, Bledsoe 10, Fouts 11, Aikman 27, Brunell 31, Brodie 32, Palmer 40, Plummer 42, Chandler 46)
small schools - 9 (Krieg 15, Hart 20, Sims 24, Anderson 28, Warner 29, McNair 34, Kitna 39, Gannon 44, Jaworski 48)
ACC - 8 (Testaverde 7, Esiason 16, Kelly 18, Hasselbeck 21, Jurgensen 30, Snead 35, Gabriel 41, Johnson 43)
other D1 - 7 (Favre 1, Montana 13, DeBerg 22, Young 25, Cunningham 36, Roethlisberger 37, Bradshaw 49)
Big Ten -6 (Brees 8, Brady 9, Collins 12, Everett 19, Dawson 45, Green 47)
SEC - 6 (P. Manning 3, Tarkenton 6, Tittle 26, E. Manning 33, Ferguson 38, Stabler 50)
Big East - 3 (Marino 2, Unitas 14, McNabb 17)
Big 12 - 1 (Hadl 23)
Y'all are funny counting old Miami alums as ACC when they didn't play in the ACC... That's funny.
Y'all are funny counting old Miami alums as ACC when they didn't play in the ACC... That's funny.
It's based on current conference affiliation. The #s will change in a few years with Maryland (Esiason) moving to the Big Can't Count Conference & Syracuse (McNabb), Pitt (Marino), & Louisville (Unitias) joining the ACC.
If the list were by conference at the time they played, the Pac-10 would be even further elite above everyone else.
Testaverde and Kelly are not listed in any ACC record books and don't have any ACC championships. they havent even played in an ACC game... Period.
This goes for the 4 SEC schools that weren't always a part of the conf and for every school that has moved confs. The new conf does not get to claim the historic players as alumni to the conf because they are not.
This goes for the 4 SEC schools that weren't always a part of the conf and for every school that has moved confs. The new conf does not get to claim the historic players as alumni to the conf because they are not.
Again, this is about the programs and their current affiliations. If you want to make the Pac-10 look even better & the SEC look worse, be my guest and recompile the list based on those antiquated associations.
In my opinion the player's connection with their school greatly trumps their association with their school's conference affiliation.
OK, what has Stafford or Newton ever won? How did Eli do this year. Scratch all three, and keep ONLY Peyton.
Well...if you want to look at it from a very narrow viewpoint then that is your choice. But Eli has won two Super Bowls and was MVP both times. Newton and Stafford are both still very new to the league but both are very good QBs. Granted there aren't as many starting QBs from the SEC as there are from other leagues, but the SEC has produced some very good ones.
The SEC's past as a run dominated league is probably over. This year's draft will include many SEC quarterbacks, with more to come next year.
Johnny Manziel
Aaron Murray
AJ McCarron
Zach Mettenberger
James Franklin (Missouri)
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First Team SEC QB...... Football Murray
