Quarterback depth charts are a difficult thing to evaluate. Do you err toward the team with the best No. 1 option or the team with the safest amount of protection behind him?

The safest way, I think, is to use a healthy combination of the two. A team with one Heisman candidate but no other viable players under center cannot be considered to have one of the best depth charts in America. Likewise, a team with two viable players but no viable starter is discredited in a similar way.

Thus, in order for a team to make this list, a combination of two things was needed: (1) a quarterback who can be trusted to compete for a conference championship and (2) a backup who can be trusted not to let the season implode if the starter...

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