NEW ORLEANS (November 26, 2025) – Fans have selected Utah's Devon Dampier as the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week. He earned the honor over seven other Manning Award Stars of the Week in the Allstate Sugar Bowl's online fan voting contest.
 
Dampier, connected on a 20-yard touchdown pass with 2:47 remaining and then had a 59-yard run on a fourth-down play to set up his own one-yard TD run with 56 seconds to go to lift the Utes to a 51-47 Big 12 victory over K-State. He finished his day 18-of-33 for 259 yards and two touchdowns while also rushing for 94 yards and two more scores. He was also named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week due to his performance.

The Phoenix, Arizona, native has passed for 1,927 yards and 19 touchdowns while rushing for 637 yards and seven scores. He is one of nine FBS quarterbacks to surpass both 1,900 passing yards and 600 rushing yards this season.
 
Damper and the Utes, ranked No. 13 in the latest CFP Rankings, look to record the program's eighth 10-win season under head coach Kyle Whittingham when they travel to Kansas for a Big 12 showdown with the Jayhawks on Saturday. Kickoff is 11:00 a.m. CT on ESPN.
 
The other Manning Award Stars of the Week were Joe Fagnano (Connecticut), Kevin Jennings (SMU), Arch Manning (Texas), Drew Mestemaker (North Texas), Amari Odom (Kennesaw State), Diego Pavia (Vanderbilt), and Preston Stone (Northwestern).
 
In its first 21 years, the Manning Award has recognized the top names in college football. It has honored quarterbacks from 15 different schools and from four different conferences. The Southeastern Conference (Jayden Daniels, Stetson Bennett, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Mac Jones, Johnny Manziel, Cam Newton, JaMarcus Russell and Tim Tebow) leads the way with nine Manning Award honorees, while the Big 12 Conference (Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Vince Young, Colt McCoy and Robert Griffin III) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (Cam Ward, Deshaun Watson twice, Matt Ryan and Jameis Winston) have each had five winners.
 
All the Manning Award winners follow in the footsteps of the Mannings themselves. In college, Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning combined for over 25,000 passing yards and 201 touchdowns while playing in 10 bowl games and earning four bowl MVP awards. Archie was the No. 2 pick in the NFL Draft, while both Peyton and Eli were selected No. 1 overall.