It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.