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The Tide’s Heisman running back, Mark Ingram and Longhorn mobile QB Colt McCoy may be taking a rare back seat to a pair of defenses that are likely to determine the winner in the first-ever BCS Championship clash of 13-0 teams.

In the closest race in the award’s 75-year history, Alabama sophomore running back Mark Ingram became his school’s first Heisman Trophy winner and the first running back since USC’s Reggie Bush won it in 2005.

Despite a storied program that include 12 national titles and with such illustrious names as Joe Namath and Ken Stabler, no one from the Crimson Tide had ever won college football’s biggest individual award.

Who will win the Heisman Trophy, college football’s most coveted award, on its 75th anniversary?

From leading candidates to long shots to the three top vote getters from last year who return for another run, here are some players to look for throughout the season and a few of the key games that may determine their fates.