It's Dec. 10 at the PlayStation Theater in midtown Manhattan. The 82nd Heisman Trophy is about to be awarded.
Who will be seated in the front row? There are five players whom no one would be surprised to see: Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey, last year's Heisman runner-up; Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, another 2015 Heisman finalist; LSU running back Leonard Fournette, the Heisman front-runner for two-thirds of the season; Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, whose dazzling play propelled the Sooners to the College Football Playoff last season; and Florida State running back Dalvin Cook, arguably the nation's most underappreciated player last fall.
Those five need no introduction to the Heisman discussion. If you don't know them, you haven't been paying attention to college football.
But the Heisman rarely goes exactly as forecast. Others can enter the radar and stay there.
The following 10 players have that opportunity this season. Most are national names already, but with such a strong group of returning contenders, each man must do something spectacular to help his campaign.
Here are your quasi-fringe candidates in alphabetical order, and what they need to do to enter the Heisman conversation. Although we realize freshmen or transfers can win the Heisman, none made this list.