Much discussion goes into which conference is the best in the land.  Fans will defend their conference as much as their team in this era of BCS conferences.  While I will not argue for the strength of these conferences as a whole, I will attempt to distinguish the BCS conferences based on their offensive and defensive units.  I have not seen any articles do such a thing so hopefully this will be a bit refreshing to the readers out there.  Without further ado, I give you my BCS conference ranking for quarterbacks:

QUARTERBACKS

1. BIG 12

2. PAC 10

3. BIG 10

4. SEC

5. BIG EAST

6. ACC

With a little insight as to why I ranked them where I did using a star system:

BIG 12:

5 Star: Chase Daniel(Missouri), Graham Harrell(Texas Tech)

4 Star: Sam Bradford(Oklahoma), Todd Reesing(Kansas), Colt McCoy(Texas)

3 Star: Zac Robinson(Oklahoma St.), Josh Freeman(Kansas St)

PAC-10:

5 Star: None

4 Star: Jake Locker(Washington), Rudy Carpenter(ASU), Willie Tuitama(Arizona)

3 Star: Mark Sanchez(USC), Nate Longshore(California)

BIG 10:

5 Star: None

4 Star: Curtis Painter(Purdue), Todd Boeckman(Ohio St.)

3 Star: Kellen Lewis(Indiana), Juice Williams(Illinois), Brian Hoyer(Mich. St.)

SEC:

5 Star: Tim Tebow(Florida)

4 Star: Matt Stafford(Georgia)

3 Star: John Parker Wilson(Alabama), Jonathan Crompton(Tennessee)

BIG EAST:

5 Star: Pat White(W. Virginia)

4 Star: None

3 Star: Matt Grothe(S. Florida), Hunter Cantwell(Louisville), Mike Teel(Rutgers)

ACC:

5 Star: None

4 Star: Cullen Harper(Clemson)

3 Star: Riley Skinner(Wake Forest), Sean Glennon(Va. Tech), Thaddeus Lewis(Duke)

Any thoughts?

My next article will include the running back portion of my project. Thanks for reading.