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Baylor's Robert Griffin III wins Heisman Trophy

Robert Griffin III #10 of the Baylor Bears

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Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III won the 2011 Heisman Trophy Saturday night in New York City.

Griffin beat out Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, who finished as the runner-up for the second straight year. Luck lost to Auburn quarterback Cam Newton in 2010. As colleague Greg Logan points out on Twitter, Luck is fourth two-time Heisman runner-up, joining Army's Glenn Davis, North Carolina's...

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