Over the next two weeks, I'll be taking a look at the best to ever put on the green and yellow (and white and black and carbon and pink). Oregon's put out a lot of elite football players over the last 100 years, though it's a safe bet that everyone has their own pecking order.

Bellotti and Harrington led Oregon to the 2002 Fiesta Bowl

A couple qualifiers before we begin:

First of all, I'm 21-years-old. The first Oregon football game I remember watching is the 1999 Sun Bowl. While I know the legend and impact of people like Dan Fouts, Mel Renfro, George Shaw, and Len Casanova, players such as Akili Smith and Joey Harrington are more etched in my mind than others. That doesn't mean I consider them better than anyone else, but its probably more of a tiebreaker.

Second, I will not be including any current players on these rankings. Yes, Marcus Mariota will probably be worthy of a spot in the quarterback hierarchy, but he's not done writing his story quite yet.

With that out of the way, here are the players I consider to be Oregon's top three quarterbacks of all-time. Please feel free to call me names and list your own top three in the comments.

3: Dan Fouts (1970-1972). 5995 passing yards, 50.4 completion percentage, 104.6 efficiency rating.

Fouts came to Oregon as a relative-unknown out of St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco (he played his first two high school seasons at Marin Catholic, sound familiar?). By the time he was done in Eugene, he had set an astounding 19 school records for everything from career passing yardage to longest passing play (85 yards against Air Force in 1971).

In an indication of how both Oregon and college football as a whole have changed, Fouts' 5995 passing yards now ranks sixth on the school's career passing log. He went on to a hall-of-fame career in the NFL and was inducted into the Oregon hall-of-fame in 1992.

2: Bill Musgrave (1987-1990). 8343 passing yards, 57.4 completion percentage, 131.6 efficiency rating.

Unlike Fouts, Musgrave came to Oregon widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks in his recruiting class. Named the 1985 Colorado High School Athlete of the Year, Musgrave started at quarterback as a freshman in 1987 and never looked back.

His career passing mark still sits atop the Oregon record books and he led the Ducks to back-to-back bowl games for the first time in school history. The success of his Oregon teams laid the foundation for head coach Rich Brooks to recruit the players that would lead the Ducks to the 1995 Rose Bowl.

Musgrave currently works as the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterbacks coach.

1: Joey Harrington (1998-2001). 6911 passing yards, 55.2 completion percentage, 133.8 efficiency rating.

Joey Harrington, Joey Heisman, Captain Comeback. Whatever you want to call him, Harrington was destined to be an Oregon great from the moment he put on pads at Central Catholic High School in Portland. Harrington's father played quarterback for the Ducks in the late 1960s and when Joey was born, then-head coach Len Casanova sent the young Harrington a letter-of-intent.

After a standout junior season that saw Oregon win the 2000 Holiday Bowl and 10 games for the first time in school history, Harrington saw his face plastered on a billboard in Times Square as part of one of the most visible Heisman campaigns of all time. While his passing stats aren't the best in school history, his ability to bring Oregon from behind in the fourth quarter again and again are the reason he's at the top of the heap.