Who is the best college quarterback of all time? Here are some of the leading candidates, beginning with Plunkett. (Cast your vote at the end.) The 1970 Heisman winner led Stanford to an 8-3 regular-season record his senior season, throwing 18 touchdowns, running for three others and amassing 2,898 yards total offense in the process, and 7,887 in three years, then an NCAA standard.