Before he was the Texas high school football player of the year, Ty Detmer helped himself land at Brigham Young University. "I didn't know very much about BYU, other than that they threw the ball ...

Ty Detmer never liked ending a drive with a field goal. He was all about scoring touchdowns and his school-record 121 passing touchdowns may stand forever. But in Detmer’s first big game at BYU ...

But only one has won the Heisman. His name is Ty Detmer, and he might be the least physically impressive of all the Cougar greats -- barely 6 feet tall and 183 pounds. But by the time his career ...

Depending on how you view Ty Detmer's win in 1990, Jeanty would be the first Heisman winner from a Group of Five school in history. (BYU played in the WAC back then, which was considered a major I ...

24, 1950. Nine quarterbacks have thrown seven interceptions in a game, with the most recent being Ty Detmer for (ironically) ...

Smith wasn't the latest selection in a draft, however. Far from it, in fact; 1990 winner Ty Detmer wasn't picked until the ninth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. The winner in '92 was Geno Torretta ...