Quarterback Marcus Mariota has won the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first Oregon player to earn US college football's top individual honour.
A pinpoint passer with wide-receiver speed, Mariota came into his junior season as the favourite to win the Heisman and delivered a performance that turned the presentation ceremony at a theatre in Times Square into a foregone conclusion.
The first Hawaii native to win the Heisman has accounted for a Pac-12-record 53 touchdowns (38 passing, 14 rushing and one receiving) while directing the Ducks' warp-speed spread offence, and leading Oregon to a spot in the first College Football Playoff.
It will be a match up of Heisman-winning quarterbacks in the Rose Bowl semi-final January 1 with Mariota and the second-seeded Ducks facing Florida State and Jameis Winston.
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