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Bleacher Report: Arkansas Football: What a Win Over Alabama Would Mean for Ryan Mallett

In their first game of the SEC season, top-ranked Alabama has to make a very difficult road trip to Fayetteville to face one of the bigger surprises of the season in No. 10 Arkansas. But a win over the Crimson Tide would mean more for one player on the Razorbacks than anyone else—QB Ryan Mallett. Already projected as a top-five pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, Mallett has shown dramatic improvement compared to a year ago, where he put up 3,627 yards and 30 touchdowns in his first season with Bobby Petrino at Arkansas. So far through three games, Mallett ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: