Dick Norman had the most passing yards in 1959, with 1,963 yards.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
1	Dick Norman D. Norman	1,963	1959	STAN	10	152	263	57.8	7.5	196.3	11	12	125.2	4.2	4.6
2	Peter Hall P. Hall	1,589	1959		10	120	237	50.6	6.7	158.9	7	14	104.9	3.0	5.9
3	Jack Lee J. Lee	1,535	1959	CIN	10	132	232	56.9	6.6	153.5	7	6	117.3	3.0	2.6
4	Charley Johnson C. Johnson	1,449	1959	NMSU	10	105	199	52.8	7.3	144.9	18			9.0
5	Norm Snead N. Snead	1,361	1959	WAKE	10	82	191	42.9	7.1	136.1	12	16	106.8	6.3	8.4
6	Joe Caldwell J. Caldwell	1,343	1959	ARMY	9	105	188	55.9	7.1	149.2	9	7	124.2	4.8	3.7
7	Don Meredith D. Meredith	1,266	1959	SMU	10	105	181	58.0	7.0	126.6	11	10	125.8	6.1	5.5
8	Rich Mayo R. Mayo	1,212	1959	AFA	10	110	211	52.1	5.7	121.2	6	10	100.3	2.8	4.7
9	John Amabile J. Amabile	1,200	1959	BC	9	85	159	53.5	7.5	133.3	8	7	124.7	5.0	4.4
10	Gale Weidner G. Weidner	1,200	1959	COLO	10	100	207	48.3	5.8	120.0	7	13	95.6	3.4	6.3
11	John Furman J. Furman	1,132	1959	UTEP		89	184	48.4	6.2		9	10	105.3	4.9	5.4
12	Dick Soergel D. Soergel	1,100	1959	OKST	10	93	155	60.0	7.1	110.0	8	4	131.5	5.2	2.6
13	Howard Dyer H. Dyer	1,072	1959	VMI	10	55	105	52.4	10.2	107.2	13	2	175.2	12.4	1.9
14	Fran Curci F. Curci	1,068	1959	MIA	10	100	195	51.3	5.5	106.8	5	14	91.4	2.6	7.2
15	Joe Majors J. Majors	1,063	1959	FSU	10	90	168	53.6	6.3	106.3	6	7	110.2	3.6	4.2
16	Ron Costello R. Costello	1,062	1959		10	93	151	61.6	7.0	106.2	6	9	121.9	4.0	6.0
17	Olen Treadway O. Treadway	1,014	1959	IOWA	9	86	147	58.5	6.9	112.7	6	3	125.8	4.1	2.0
18	Ed Hino E. Hino	997	1959		9	79	185	42.7	5.4	110.8	2	13	77.5	1.1	7.0
19	Emmett Lee E. Lee	973	1959	SJSU	10	86	150	57.3	6.5	97.3	7	9	115.2	4.7	6.0
20	Richie Lucas R. Lucas	913	1959	PSU	10	58	117	49.6	7.8	91.3	5	8	115.5	4.3	6.8
21	Jack Cummings J. Cummings	889	1959	UNC	10	63	144	43.8	6.2	88.9	4	7	95.1	2.8	4.9
22	Jim Walden J. Walden	882	1959	WYO	10	45	101	44.6	8.7	88.2	11	8	138.0	10.9	7.9
23	Dave Grosz D. Grosz	865	1959	ORE	10	67	139	48.2	6.2	86.5	10	8	112.7	7.2	5.8
24	Ken Vierra K. Vierra	854	1959	UTAH	10	63	115	54.8	7.4	85.4	8	9	124.5	7.0	7.8
25	Roman Gabriel R. Gabriel	832	1959	NCST	10	81	134	60.4	6.2	83.2	3	7	109.5	2.2	5.2