Twelve months ago, Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott was America's football darling.
He was fresh off five weeks of being the unquestioned front-runner in the Heisman Trophy race, had led Mississippi State from anonymity all the way to the No. 1 ranking and looked like head coach Dan Mullen's version of Tim Tebow in Starkville.
Then Mississippi State faded down the stretch, never really got back into contention this year and other quarterbacks like Clemson's Deshaun Watson and Oklahoma's Baker Mayfield jumped to the front of the national discussion.