Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, taking home the award in a landslide over Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon and Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper.

With that, we figured now was as good a time as any to look ahead to next year’s Heisman Trophy race.

All three of this year’s finalists were juniors and it is believed all three of them will forego their senior seasons to enter the upcoming NFL draft. Gordon has already announced his intention to leave.

Other top underclassmen around college football will declare for the draft in the coming weeks, and it's impossible to know who will stay and who will go at this point.

Below we list 15 top candidates for the 2015 Heisman, assuming players like the three finalists and others like Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston and Indiana running back Tevin Coleman will be gone as well.

Heisman Trophy: 15 names for 2015

15. Corey Clement, RB, Wisconsin – Clement is next in a long line of Wisconsin running backs that have had to wait their turn to be the No. 1 option. Montee Ball, James White and Melvin Gordon were all excellent for the Badgers. Clement has 844 yards and nine touchdowns this season, and averaged more than eight yards per carry in 2013.

14. Leonard Fournette, RB, LSU – Fournette had a very good freshman season, but it may seem like a disappointment since expectations were so high. He shared a lot of carries this season with Kenny Hilliard and Terrence Magee, and will likely still pass the 1,000-yard rushing mark. With the Tigers’ shaky quarterback play, Fournette should get a lot more carries in 2015.

13. Royce Freeman, RB, Oregon – Freeman has rushed for 1,300 yards and 16 touchdowns and has another 139 yards and a touchdown receiving. That’s all with Mariota in the backfield. With the Ducks breaking in a new quarterback next season, Freeman will get a chance to increase those numbers, especially early in the season.

12. Dalvin Cook, RB, Florida State – Cook really came on late in the year for the Seminoles and showed the speed and explosiveness that made him a five-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite coming out of Miami Central. Cook led the team in rushing this season and showed he can be a threat catching the ball out of the backfield. With Florida State facing life without Jameis Winston, Cook should give the Seminoles reason to run the ball ad nauseum in 2015.

11. Joey Bosa, DE, Ohio State – Bosa is obviously a dark horse candidate as a defensive lineman, but he and Scooby Wright will be the most hyped defenders in college football next season. For good reason. Bosa has 50 tackles, 20 of them are for losses. More notably, he's got 13.5 sacks, four quarterback hurries and he has forced four fumbles this season. On a team that figures to be a preseason top five club, Bosa will be the face of the defense.

10. Samaje Perine, RB, Oklahoma – The freshman back set the FBS single-game rushing record with 427 yards against Kansas, but take that game away and he still has more than 1,000 yards rushing. He has scored 21 rushing touchdowns and most impressively lost only 18 yards on carries all season on 240 attempts. He should be better with a year of experience under his belt. And get this: Perine only started seven games this year.

9. Scooby Wright, LB, Arizona – Wright collected plenty of hardware this week, including the Lombardi Award and the Bronco Nagurski Award as the nation’s top defender. He didn’t really emerge nationally until about halfway through his sophomore season. Now, his profile is much higher — which can help and hurt, honestly. Wright had 28 tackles for loss, 14 sacks and forced six fumbles. He doesn’t just put up numbers; he performs well in the clutch. Wright finished ninth in voting this season, so the folks who pick the Heisman winner are very aware of him.

8. Nick Chubb, RB, Georgia – Chubb would be higher on this list, but we think he may have to share too many carries to break into the top five. Chubb obviously shared carries with Todd Gurley this season, but still managed to rush for almost 1,300 yards and 12 touchdowns. He proved he can catch the ball out of the backfield as well, and finished fourth on the team in receptions. He is a physically gifted runner.

7. Anu Solomon, QB, Arizona – Solomon has thrown for 3,458 yards and 27 touchdowns with a bowl game still to go. Rich Rodriguez made Pat White a legitimate Heisman candidate and he can do the same with Solomon. The Wildcats were a surprise contender in 2014. Their ascension makes them a possible preseason darling and gets Solomon the billing he deserves and needs to jump into Heisman contention.

6. Dak Prescott, QB, Mississippi State – Prescott and the Bulldogs started 2014 hot — becoming the first No. 1 team in the CFP committee rankings — before trailing off. We’ll never know if they would have made the playoff if they beat Ole Miss, but Prescott should have Mississippi State in the SEC West hunt again next season. Prescott has thrown for 2,996 yards and rushed for 939. He has a total of 38 touchdowns, including one receiving. Prescott finished eighth in this year’s voting and six of the players in front of him are expected to leave school.

5. Cody Kessler, QB, USC – Kessler has thrown for more than 3,500 yards and has 36 passing touchdowns. He played especially well later in the season and has plenty of talented young receivers to throw to next season. The Trojans are 8-4 right now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they get to 10 wins next year. A USC quarterback with Kessler’s numbers on a highly ranked team will warrant a lot of Heisman consideration.

4. Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama – The Crimson Tide are perennial national title contenders and Henry will likely be the face of the Alabama offense next season. With Blake Sims and Amari Cooper gone, Lane Kiffin may run Henry behind start left tackle Cameron Robinson early and often next season. Henry and T.J. Yeldon are having almost identical seasons and Henry has been banged up a bit this year. The star players on good teams are always in the Heisman race and Henry should fit that profile — especially if he is 100 percent healthy.

3. Connor Cook, QB, Michigan State – Cook was known as more of a game-manager as a sophomore, but really emerged as a threat with star receiver Tony Lippett this season. Cook has thrown for 2,900 yards and 22 touchdowns with just six interceptions. His numbers could be much higher, but he came out very early in blowout wins prior to the start of Big Ten play. The Spartans offense has already set school records for most points, total offense and offensive touchdowns with the bowl game to play.

2. Trevone Boykin, QB, TCU – Boykin and the Horned Frogs just missed out on the College Football Playoff this season, but most of Gary Patterson’s team returns next season. Boykin, a player who has moved back and forth from quarterback to receiver, secured the starting QB spot with his 3,714 yards passing and 30 touchdown tosses so far this season. He has rushed for 642 yards and eight more scores, and also caught a 55-yard touchdown pass. Boykin finished fourth in the Heisman voting this season and is likely to be the leading returning vote-getter in 2015. The Frogs should be very good again next year and Boykin will be a major reason for that.

1. The Ohio State quarterback – Whether it’s Braxton Miller or J.T. Barrett, the quarterback for the Buckeyes next season has to be the early favorite to win the award. Miller was the two-time Big Ten player of the year and all Barrett did as a redshirt freshman was put together a better year than Miller did in 2013. The Buckeyes are in the College Football Playoff this season and have enough talent returning to be considered a favorite to make it back again next season. Barrett finished the year 203-for-314 for 2,834 yards and 34 TD passes. He also rushed for 938 yards and 11 more scores. His 45 touchdowns accounted for broke Drew Brees’ Big Ten record of 42 set in 1998. Miller was 162-for-255 for 2,094 yards and 24 touchdown passes. Miller added 1,068 rushing yards and 12 touchdown on the ground in 2013. Miller has said he plans to return to the Buckeyes next season, so Urban Meyer could be loaded at the position in 2015.