Article updated: 12/8/2012 9:35 PM

‘Johnny Football’ Manziel wins the Heisman

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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a unique Heisman race, with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te’o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.