Colorado’s Travis Hunter was the Heisman Trophy favourite going into Saturday night time’s trophy presentation, and he ended up including to his spectacular trophy assortment for the season by profitable the award.
It was not fairly a runaway victory for him.
Hunter collected 552 first-place votes and a couple of,231 factors within the voting, narrowly edging out Boise State working again Ashton Jeanty‘s 2,017 complete factors.
Jeanty additionally had 309 first-place votes.
That was not solely a small margin of victory for Hunter, it was the closest Heisman Trophy vote in 15 years when Alabama working again Mark Ingram narrowly beat Stanford’s Toby Gerhart.
Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel got here in third on this 12 months’s voting with 24 first-place votes and 516 complete factors.
Miami’s Cam Ward got here in fourth with six first-place votes and 229 complete factors.
Arizona State working again Cam Skattebo, who was not invited to the trophy presentation ceremony in New York Metropolis, got here in fifth place with three first-place votes and 170 complete factors.
Jeanty was the one participant that figured to be the most important competitors for Hunter given his completely large speeding numbers. He completed the common season with 2,497 yards on 344 carries with 29 speeding touchdowns. He additionally added one other 116 yards on 20 catches with a receiving landing.
He enters the playoffs simply 131 yards away from Barry Sanders’ single-season speeding file. Jeanty can have a minimum of another sport to beat it, and probably extra if Boise State retains profitable within the School Soccer Playoff.
Boise State has a bye into the quarterfinals and can play the winner of the Penn State-SMU sport in two weeks. Colorado will play BYU within the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, on Dec. 28. Hunter has not but introduced if he’ll play in that sport.
