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Yahoo Sports: Big 12 defenses, Taylor Martinez is here for your dignity

Nebraska 48, Kansas State 13. As exhilarating as it must be for Cornhusker fans to have a truly dynamic playmaker at quarterback after nearly a solid decade of middling caretakers, I imagine there's a frustrated twinge of missed opportunity, too. Where was this Taylor Martinez kid last year, when the slightest semblance of a heartbeat on offense would have meant a Big 12 championship and a darkhorse national run opposite a genuinely dominant defense? /> Answer: He was on the scout team as an obscure true freshman, sitting behind ineffectual starter Zac Lee, more hyped classmate Cody Green and a ...

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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: