Ranking the Big Ten’s top 5 all-time QBs

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For the past few weeks, we’ve published series looking back at the spring — so we thought we’d really take a look back this week.

Because this year marks the Big Ten’s 120th anniversary, we cracked open the history books and took a look back at some of the conference’s best players. So, as part of this week’s series, we’re ranking the top 5 all-time B1G players at each position. Every day, we’ll give you an offensive position and a defensive position.

We’re not basing this on NFL careers or numbers; a lot of it has to do with how each player’s college career was viewed in his respective time period. We’re also technically doing some cheating here because we’re picking players that come from teams currently in the Big Ten. In other words, expect to see a few Nebraska and Penn State players — even if they didn’t technically compete in the conference.

So, without further ado, let’s kick off this week’s series. Up first: Quarterbacks.

Nebraska passer Tommie Frazier tops this list of the Big Ten’s top 5 quarterbacks of all-time. AP Photo/Doug Mills

1. Tommie Frazier, Nebraska, started from 1992-1995: He’s certainly not the most accurate passer on this list, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a signal-caller who could help you win more games. Frazier won back-to-back national championships in 1994 and 1995, and he was Nebraska’s bowl MVP for three straight seasons. On top of that, the College Football Hall of Famer also made both the Walter Camp and Sports Illustrated all-century teams, the only “B1G” quarterback to do so. His numbers weren’t incredible, …

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