SEC Football: Each team’s top Heisman Trophy candidate for 2020

In competition, there is a such thing as a dark horse. Well, K.J. Costello is a dark, darkhorse. If there is any player that is on a team not at the top of the SEC that has a legitimate outside, Hail Mary chance of getting invited to New York, it’s Costello.

There is not going to be much of a learning curve issue with Costello; new head coach Mike Leach has a proven track record with one-year graduate transfers. We’ve worked countless hours — well maybe one or two — at power ranking headquarters trying to come up with the Mississippi State equivalent of Minshew-mania. We’re stumped.

Seriously, Costello is the best transfer quarterback Leach has ever had. He’s going to throw the football around the yard a lot this season. Keep in mind, everything is house money with these selections.

If the Bulldogs make a run in year-one of the “Mike Leach experience” in Starkville and they are playing for a conference championship, that means both the “Cam factor” and the “Burrow [rinciple” are in full effect.

Costello has taken a team that has talent — though not on the level of Alabama and LSU — to heights they did not think possible. He’s also put up ridiculous numbers that dwarfed anything he’s done in seasons past.

That happens, there is little doubt that the grad-transfer from Stanford will be in New York.