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 ...

The quarterback himself is quick to deflect to the defense. "We beat No. 1 Miami," said Ty Detmer, a former BYU quarterback and current ALA Gilbert North head coach. "We had five turnovers on offense.

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 ...

Most recently, former Cougar quarterback Ty Detmer was selected as part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2012, becoming the fifth BYU quarterback to enter the Hall of Fame, the most quarterbacks from the ...

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

That game propelled both programs to national prominence, with Colorado winning a national championship in 1990 and Ty Detmer capturing the Heisman Trophy the same year. What Colorado's Deion ...