Auburn's Cam Newton wins yet another award...the Manning

Cam Newton, the Heisman Trophy winner from the national champion Auburn Tigers, has been selected as the winner of the 2010-11 Manning Award, presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl to the top quarterback in the nation. The Manning Award, now in its seventh year, was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl to honor the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that takes into consideration the candidates' bowl performances in its balloting. The award is voted on by a panel of local and national media, as well as each of the Mannings.

Newton, who declared for the NFL Draft last week, becomes the third Southeastern Conference quarterback to collect the honor, joining LSU's JaMarcus Russell (2006-07) and Florida's Tim Tebow (2008-09).

"I'm not sure if we've ever seen a player put up numbers like Cam Newton did this year," said Archie Manning. "It's amazing for a guy to account for over 50 touchdowns in a career, let alone one season, and to also lead his team to the SEC Championship and the BCS Championship, it's no surprise that our voting panel selected Cam as this year's winner.

"I want to give credit to all 10 of our finalists; it's been a great year for quarterbacks and we're very excited that six of them are scheduled to return next year."