NEW YORK (AP) â" Robert Griffin III is Baylor's Superman and when he won a Heisman Trophy he was wearing a hosiery to infer it.
Who knows? Maybe they even helped him outluck Andrew Luck.
The youth quarterback famous as RG3 flog out a preseason favorite from Stanford on Saturday night, apropos a initial Baylor actor to take home college football's many famous trophy.
Right before his name was called, Griffin took a low breath. When it was announced he pennyless into a splendid smile, his face framed by his prolonged braided hair. Then it was hugs all around, for his coaches, his parents, his sister and his fiance.
He took a few prolonged strides adult to a theatre and let out a giggle when he got there, creation a fun about a Superman hosiery â" finish with capes on a behind â" he was wearing before going into his acceptance speech.
"This is unbelievably believable," he said. "It's unimaginable given in a impulse we're all vacant when good things happen. But it's plausible given good things don't occur yet tough work."
Griffin started a deteriorate on a border of a Heisman conversation, a gifted and sparkling actor on a extrinsic team, while Luck was already being touted as a No. 1 NFL breeze pick.
Draft day competence unequivocally good still go to Luck, yet Griffin perted a Heisman to Waco, Texas, to a propagandize that has never had a actor finish softened than fourth in a voting â" and that was 48 years ago.
Griffin perceived 405 first-place votes and 1,687 points.
"Everybody compared with Baylor has a reason to applaud tonight," he said.
Luck perceived 247 first-place votes and 1,407 points to turn a fourth actor to be Heisman runner-up in uninterrupted seasons and initial given Arkansas regulating behind Darren McFadden in 2006 and '07.
Luck was also initial to honour Griffin
"It was so well-deserved by Robert Griffin," Luck said. "It was unequivocally tough to be upset."
Alabama regulating behind Trent Richardson was third with 138 first-place votes and 978 points. Wisconsin regulating behind Montee Ball (348 points) was fourth and a other finalist, LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (327) was fifth.
Griffin's debate was as well-spoken as his game.
"If we can get everybody in a throng to giggle it can make my debate a whole lot easier," he pronounced after during his news conference, after display off his blue and red hosiery with that informed "S'' on a front.
Griffin is a large fan of superheroes and animation characters, and socks. His favorite socks: SpongeBob.
But make no mistake, even yet he was approaching by many to win, he said: "My heart was violence really, unequivocally hard. we could feel it in my chest like they all said."
Griffin's highlights were simply fantastic â" his signature impulse entrance on a long, cross-field touchdown pass with 8 seconds left to flog Oklahoma â" and he put adult dizzying numbers, completing 72 percent of his passes for 3,998 yards with 36 touchdown passes and a nation-leading 192.3 potency rating.
More importantly, he carried Baylor (9-3) to inhabitant inflection and one of a biggest seasons in propagandize history. The 15th-ranked Bears won 9 games for a initial time in 25 years, flog a Sooners for a initial time ever and went 4-0 in November.
That was after winning a sum of 4 Nov games in their initial 15 Big 12 seasons. And a final 3 games? Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Texas.
Luck was a front-runner from a impulse in Jan he astounded many by returning to Stanford for one some-more deteriorate instead of jumping to a NFL to turn a millionaire. He didn't disappoint, with 3,170 yards receiving, 35 touchdown passes, a execution commission of 70 percent and a rating of 167.5.
Griffin outdid him regulating a identical formula: heading a downtrodden module during a private propagandize out of a shadows of a absolute discussion rivals with shining and heady play.
Luck finished a marvellous one-handed locate early in what incited out to be a blowout feat opposite UCLA. Nice.
Griffin finished a 15-yard accepting in trade to modify a pivotal third down on a game-winning expostulate in Baylor's opening 50-48 feat opposite TCU. Better.
The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder with sprinter's speed â" he was an all-American in a 400-meter hurdles â" had some early Heisman buzz, yet faded in Oct as Baylor mislaid 3 of four. Griffin continued to raise adult video persion numbers, yet not adequate to recompense for a Bears' leaky defense.
He finished with a flog and shot adult a Heisman charts on Nov. 19, when Baylor flog Oklahoma 45-38. Griffin upheld for 479 yards and 4 touchdowns opposite a Sooners, including that marvellous 34-yard, game-winner to Terrance Williams in a shutting seconds.
He staid his box one final time on championship Saturday, capping his deteriorate with 320 yards flitting and dual TD passes and dual touchdown runs in a 48-24 feat opposite Texas. Meanwhile, Luck and Richardson were idle, their unchanging seasons over.
"It seemed like a book was created ideally for us to go out and win this award," Griffin said.
At that indicate it turn apparent that quarterback Don Trull's fourth-place finish in 1963 would no longer be a Heisman customary during Baylor.
"We've finished a good pursuit resurrecting a program," Griffin said.
He is a son of dual U.S. Army sergeants who staid in executive Texas in a city called Copperas Cove nearby Fort Hood.
"My Dad, he gave me all he didn't have and some," he said. "And they contend a mom's adore is one of a kind, we can demonstrate to that."
It was a recruiting manoeuvre for Baylor to land Griffin out of high school, yet it was something of a package deal.
Griffin had committed to Houston and manager Art Briles, yet when Baylor hired Briles away, Griffin switched adult and followed a manager to a module that hadn't even played in a play persion given 1994.
"Our offense is quarterback accessible yet a doubt," Briles said. "We knew Robert was a finish fit for what we were looking for out of a quarterback position."
He started 11 games as an 18-year-old beginner in 2008 and tore a knee vinculum 3 games into a 2009 season. He returned final year as good as new and with a newfound joining and adore of football. He threw for 3,501 yards and led Baylor to a 7-6 record and a initial play coming given 1994.
This season, his flitting has softened and he's still a dangerous curtain (644 yards and 9 TDs). He has left small doubt that he's a pro prospect, yet he's got one some-more persion â" a Alamo Bowl opposite Washington on Dec. 29 in San Antonio â" to uncover his stuff.
An determined counsel who is operative on a master's grade in communications, he binds 46 propagandize annals and adoring Bears fans are praying he comes behind for more.
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