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It didn’t take a football savant to determine the players that had the biggest impact on the National Championship Game between Oregon and Auburn earlier this month.
Junior college transfer Nick Fairley made an immediate impact for Auburn as the Tigers went on to win the national title.Nick Fairley on the defensive side of the ball and Cameron Newton on offense managed to gift-wrap their Auburn supporters a national championship with a little help from their teammates.
But neither Newton nor Fairley took the conventional path to that championship game. Both players had junior college layovers before landing under the bright lights of the SEC, proving that those finishing national championship touches can come from some unlikely places.
Below are the 247Sports top 25 junior college prospects in the nation for the class of 2011.