Atlanta (AP)—Cam Newton still seems a little dazed by it all, how a guy who was playing at a junior college in Texas just a season ago has the Heisman Trophy in his grasp, his team just one win away from the national championship.

Believe it.

With his best performance yet in a week when NCAA pronounced him good to go, Newton accounted for six touchdowns in the Southeastern Conference championship game to lead No. 2  Auburn to a 56-17 rout of 18th-ranked South Carolina on Saturday.

“It’s not even sunk in,” said Newton, who threw for a career-best 335 yards and four touchdowns, plus ran for a pair of scores. “I’ve just been living the dream.”

An even bigger game looms on Jan. 10.

Auburn, which came into the day leading the Bowl Championship Series standings, wrapped up its spot in the title game against top-ranked Oregon, which secured a trip to Glendale, Ariz., with a 37-20 victory over Oregon State.

The Ducks will be facing a player that Auburn coach Gene Chizik calls the best he’s ever seen at the college level. That includes Vince Young, who was at Texas when Chizik was the Longhorns’ defensive coordinator.

“When you look at the 13-game span, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Chizik said. “It’s running the ball. It’s throwing the ball. Usually great quarterbacks do one or the other better. What God has blessed Cameron with is the ability to be really, really good at both.”