The American Athletic Conference is a league that was born from realignment. Now, a decade later, it’s a conference going through massive changes, once again due to realignment. During that first decade of play, the AAC went from being a BCS auto qualifying conference to the top-ranked Group of Five conference, consistently sending its top team to the New Year’s Six and even the College Football Playoff.

It takes a lot of great players to produce that type of success, especially at the quarterback position. Here are the five best:

5. Blake Bortles-UCF

Before becoming the greatest quarterback in Jacksonville Jaguars history (you know, probably), Blake Bortles was one of the best quarterbacks to come out of UCF.