Like a novelist bent on Steven King fame and fortune, the Heisman race kills its darlings.
Favorites drop, discarded like the wings of flies in the fingers of wanton boys. Arch Manning? You're overhyped. Cade Klubnik? You can't handle the pressure of the big stage. Doug Nussmeier, your offense clanks and sputters like a '57 Ford Fairlane with a bad timing belt.
All the preseason favorites are gone, replaced by the true heroes of Saturday, the ones who've made big plays over the first month of the season. And no one stands ahead of Dante Moore, the new Heisman favorite.