It is late Thursday night, Dec. 6, so late it's nearly Friday morning. Everyone is tired. But suddenly, the air is electric. College football's two best players -- perhaps the most explosive quarterbacks the game has ever seen -- are finally about to occupy the same field at the same time.
On the green synthetic lawn of the College Football Hall of Fame's indoor playing field in downtown Atlanta, Oklahoma's Kyler Murray, still 48 hours from being named winner of the Heisman Trophy, is standing in the shadows of the girders that make up the giant ESPN stage at the back of the cavernous room.