Billy Ray Sims (born September 18, 1955) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1980s.
 Sims played college football for the University of Oklahoma, where he was a two-time consensus All-American, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1978.
 He was the first overall pick in the 1980 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the NFL's Detroit Lions.
 Sims was the last Oklahoma player taken Number 1 overall in the NFL Draft until quarterback Sam Bradford was taken first in the 2010 NFL Draft.
 He was given the nickname "Kung Fu Billy Sims" by ESPN's Chris Berman, after a game where the Detroit Lions played the Houston Oilers.
 In the NFL Films highlight, rather than be tackled during a rushing attempt, Sims ran at, jumped, and, while fully airborne, kicked Oilers Cornerback Steve Brown in the head.
The 2014 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 2, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The 80th annual Sugar Bowl, it featured the #10 (AP ranked), #11 (BCS ranked) Oklahoma Sooners of the Big 12 Conference and the #3-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference.
 The game was broadcast live on ESPN at 8:30 PM EST.
 It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season.
 It was sponsored by the Allstate insurance company and was officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
John Terrill Majors (born May 21, 1935) is a former American football player and coach.
 A standout halfback at the University of Tennessee, he was an All-American in 1956 and a two-time winner of the Southeastern Conference Most Valuable Player award, in 1955 and 1956.
 He finished second to Paul Hornung in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1956.
 Majors served as the head football coach at Iowa State University (1968–1972), the University of Pittsburgh (1973–1976, 1993–1996), and Tennessee (1977–1992), compiling a career college football record of 185–137–10.
 His 1976 Pittsburgh squad won a national championship after capping a 12–0 season with a victory in the Sugar Bowl.
 Majors was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1987.
Billy Dale Vessels (March 22, 1931 – November 17, 2001) was a gridiron football player.
 He played college football at the University of Oklahoma and won the Heisman Trophy in 1952.
 Vessels went on to play professional football with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and the Western Interprovincial Football Union's Edmonton Eskimos.
The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since January 1, 1935, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 2, 2009.
 The Sugar Bowl, along with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl, are the second-oldest bowl games in the country, behind the Rose Bowl Game.
 The Sugar Bowl is also a member of the College Football Playoff.
 Presently, its official title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl after its current sponsor, the Allstate insurance company.
The 1997 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee during the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 Quarterback Peyton Manning had already completed his degree in three years, and had been projected to be the top overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft, but returned to Tennessee for his senior year.
 The Volunteers opened the season with victories against Texas Tech and UCLA, but for the third time in his career, Manning fell to Florida, 33–20.
 The Vols won the rest of their regular season games, finishing 10–1, and advanced to the SEC Championship Game against Auburn.
 Down 20–7, Manning led the Vols to a 30–29 victory.
 Throwing for four touchdowns, he was named the game's MVP, but injured himself in the process.
 The #3 Vols were matched up with #2 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
 Had Tennessee won and top-ranked Michigan lost to Washington State in the Rose Bowl, the Vols would have been expected to win the national championship.
 However, the Vols' defense could not stop Nebraska's rushing attack, giving up more than 400 yards on the ground in a 42–17 loss.
 As a senior, Manning won numerous awards.
 He was a consensus first-team All-American and won the Maxwell Award, the Davey O'Brien Award, the Johnny Unitas Award, and the Best College Football Player ESPY Award, among others.
 However, he did not win the Heisman Trophy, finishing runner-up to Charles Woodson, a CB from Michigan, and the only defensive player ever to win the Heisman Trophy.
The 2016 Sugar Bowl is a bowl game that was played on January 1, 2016 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 This 81st Sugar Bowl was played between the University of Mississippi and Oklahoma State University.
 It is one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game is officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman), is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.
 Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work.
 It is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust in early December before the postseason bowl games.
The 1951 Sugar Bowl was the 17th Sugar Bowl matchup, pitting the Big Seven champion Oklahoma Sooners (ranked #1 in the Associated Press poll) against the Southeastern Conference champion Kentucky Wildcats (ranked #7).
 Oklahoma's regular season record was 10-0; Kentucky's was 10-1.
 Oklahoma averaged 34.5 points per game; only one team had scored more than twice in a game against Kentucky that season.
 Oklahoma entered the January 1, 1951, game with a 31-game winning streak; the Sooners' last loss had come on September 25, 1948.
 Kentucky was coached by Bear Bryant; Oklahoma was coached by Bud Wilkinson.
 Notable players for the two teams included Oklahoma's Billy Vessels and Kentucky's Charlie McClendon, Babe Parilli and Wilbur "Shorty" Jamerson.
 82,000 fans attended the game.
The Heisman curse is a term coined to reference a two-part assertion of a negative future for the winning player of the Heisman Trophy.
 The "curse" supposes that any college football player who wins the Heisman plays on a team that will likely lose its subsequent bowl game.
 The trend of post-award failure has garnered the attention of the mainstream media.
 Talk of a curse in relation to bowl results was particularly prevalent from 2003 to 2008, when six Heisman Trophy winners compiled a cumulative 1–5 bowl game record, and five of those six led number one ranked teams into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game as favorites (Heisman Trophy winners, including Reggie Bush, who gave back his Heisman Trophy, are 4–8 overall in the BCS National Championship Game and College Football Playoff National Championship, although prior to 2009 they were 1–6).
 Additionally, the Heisman curse asserts that in most cases a Heisman winner will have either a poor career in the National Football League (NFL), or in fact not even see such a football career at all.
 Although many Heisman winners have not enjoyed success at the professional level, including players like Matt Leinart, Andre Ware, Jason White, Rashaan Salaam, Eric Crouch, Ty Detmer, Troy Smith and Gino Torretta, proponents of the "curse" rarely cite highly successful players such as Barry Sanders, Charles Woodson, Eddie George, Tim Brown, Bo Jackson, Marcus Allen, Earl Campbell, and Tony Dorsett among the notables.

Question: Which Oklahoma player in the 1951 Sugar Bowl went on to win the Heisman Trophy?
Answer: Billy Vessels